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# TIP SCURRY

**Banking (Salade)**
**Peking (Ambafrance)**
**December 1944**

**234-236, 3-part message complete.**

I refer to my telegrams No. 232 and 233.

The lessening in importance of the Ministry of Information and Propaganda which is anticipated and the resignation of Mr. LIN PAI SHENG which followed this decision are actually only the result of an old rivalry between Mr. NEI SEE PING and Mr. LIN PAI SHENG. More than a year ago, the latter had attempted an active propaganda program against the use of opium, in the secret hope of being given the administration of the Bureau of Narcotics which was, nevertheless, incorporated into the Ministry of the Interior, after a clever manoeuvre. This aroused in Mr. LIN a deep resentment, which exploded last Tuesday during the meeting of the Executive YUAN, where he lashed out in criticism of a report on opium presented by Mr. NEI. The crisis appears to have been sufficiently serious to call for Japanese intervention, presumably (for the purpose of) maintaining, at least tentatively, in the set-up of the Government, a status quo which seems to be seriously compromised.

As a matter of fact, it is curious to note how, one by one, (see my telegrams 224 and 232-233), the former partisans (for) WANG CHING WEI are resigning or threatening to resign, although it had been implicitly understood that no change would be made for the time being in the government crew if only out of respect for the dead leader and for his political doctrine. However, certain -- are inclined to think that what is taking place is a concerted action of members of the WANG CHING WEI clan which, in order to maintain their respective positions and their compromised influence, are applying blackmail by threatening to give resounding publicity to these latent dissensions. And, in truth, the secrecy which is maintained around this crisis shows how embarrassing it is to the new leaders. Kadama WANG, who found it more convenient to retire discreetly to Shanghai, (is presumably) the soul of the plot.

a - H -154017
b - BUREAU DES STUFFEIANTS
c - H-153546

**Inter 3 Dec. 44 (2)**
**Rec'd 3 Dec. 44**
**Trans 1941 4 Dec 44 (5632,1935-3)**
**Rec'd Ottawa Dec. 13th, 1944.**

**Examination Unit, National Research Council, December 13, 1944.**

**File** **D-5386**