office as President.  Rumours have indeed been circulated, but whenever they reached the ears of the President he has never hesitated to express his righteous mind, saying that no amount of pressure could compel him to change his determination.  All officials who have come into close contact with the President have heard such sentiments from the lips of the President on not a few occasions.  To me his words are still ringing in my ears.  General Feng Kuo-chang has conveyed to me what he was told by the President.  He says that the President has prepared a “few rooms” in England, and that if the people would not spare him he would flee to the refuge he has prepared.  Thus we may clearly see how determined the President is.  Can it be possible that you have never heard of this and thus raise this extraordinary subject without any cause?  If the situation should become such that the President should be compelled to carry out his threat and desert the Palace, what would you say and do then?

Or, perhaps, you are measuring the lordly conduct of a gentleman with the heart of a mean man, saying to yourself that what the President has been saying cannot be the truth, but, as Confucius has said, “say you are not but make a point to do it,” and that, knowing that he would not condemn you, you have taken the risk.  If so, then what do you take the President for?  To go back on one’s words is an act despised by a vagabond.  To suggest such an act as being capable of the President is an insult, the hideousness of which cannot be equalled by the number of hairs on one’s head.  Any one guilty of such an insult should not be spared by the four hundred million of people.

    XI.  THE CHOU AN HUI AND THE LAW

Next let me ask if you have read the Provisional Constitution, the Provisional Code, the Meeting and Association Law, the Press Regulations, the various mandates bearing on the punishment of persons who dare conspire against the existing form of state?  Do you not know that you, as citizens of the Republic, must in duty bound observe the Constitution and obey the laws and mandates?  Yet you have dared openly to call together your partisans and incite a revolution (the recognized definition in political science for revolution is “to change the existing form of state").  As the Judiciary have not been courageous enough to deal with you since you are all so closely in touch with the President, you have become bolder still and carry out your sinister scheme in broad daylight.  I do not wish to say what sort of peace you are planning for China; but this much I know, that the law has been violated by you to the last letter.  I will be silent if you believe that a nation can be governed without law.  Otherwise tell me what you have got to say?

It is quite apparent that you will not be satisfied with mere shouting and what you aim at is the actual fulfilment of your expectations.