Chapter 39 fascist element

It's hard to say how much one should take these "fascist" references, or even to assess the extent to which it represents the Blue Shirts' overall ideology.Of course, newspaper articles at the time described the Blue Shirts as "fascist" or "semi-fascist" with National Socialist leanings. The North China Standard reported that in Hong Kong "a gang of semi-fascists known as the 'Blue Shirts' had set up a headquarters in a luxury apartment on Caine Road" and claimed they wanted to To establish a dictatorship according to the model of Mussolini's government. These Chinese fascists believe that there must be a group of strongmen to control the government. To this end, they will use Nazi methods to deal with political opponents.Also, judging from police reports at the time, at least some members of the Resurrection Society were outspoken about taking the fascist label very seriously.Most of the Whampoa graduates who belonged to this category had studied in Germany, France, Italy, and Belgium. They regarded Feng Ti, who was the first secretary of the Fuxing Society and later became the Chinese military attache stationed in Berlin, as their own. lead.Feng Ti accordingly formed an alliance with Tang Zong, who had also served as a military attache in Berlin, Gu Xiping, who had studied in France, Liu Fan, who had received police training in Belgium, and Tang Wu, who had studied in Italy.This group demanded that Chiang Kai-shek follow the example of Hitler and Mussolini, who are often identified as the ubiquitous so-called Blue Shirts.

Regardless of the truth about the Blue Shirts Society, the Shanghai Municipal Police Special Branch regards the members of the Blue Shirts Society (according to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Investigation Bureau's estimate, its members reached about 14,000 at the end of 1935) as the "fascist faction" in the triple structure of Fuxingshe. ".No matter how important Dai Li was in the absolutely secret secret service, his name was not listed by these policemen as the head of the Blue Shirts.And He Zhonghan was regarded as the main leader of the Blue Shirts Club. He Zhonghan clearly believed that he was becoming the political leader of the so-called "Whampoa faction".The faction generally refers to graduates of the first three years of the Whampoa Military Academy, but the closest it comes to a factional structure is the Fuxing Society.As a result, the Blue Shirts Society is sometimes simply regarded as a pure Whampoa faction, and it is also considered to be Chiang Kai-shek's "direct line" as members of the Lixing Society and its peripheral organizations think.