Chapter 59 Dissolution of the Revival Society

After the formation of the second Kuomintang-Communist united front, the Fuxing Society had to be disbanded.Chiang Kai-shek ordered its dissolution in April 1938.In August of the same year, the first office was secretly named the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Central Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang", that is, the "Central Unification Bureau"; "Military Command", it nominally obeys the director of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant room, but in fact it is led by Dai Li. On the surface, the Fuxing Society merged with the Three People's Principles Youth League.Except for a small group of members of the Blue Shirts Club who withdrew from the new organization as a whole, most of the backbone of the former Fuxing Club became members of the Three Youth League.The local Fuxingshe branches became "branch groups", with new signs replacing the old ones, and the original branch "secretaries" were changed to "branch chiefs."Kang Ze is now the director of the "Organization Division" of the Three Youth League, while the Political Training Division is attached to the Political Department.

Xiao Zuolin believed that these changes were only formal, because the personnel affairs of the Fuxing Society were still controlled by Chiang Kai-shek himself.Of course, the Blue Shirts continued to exist in the 1940s in the form of the backbone of the Special Forces of the Military Reunification, especially in Shanghai, where there was an organizational base established by Dai Li and his associates at the spy station in the 1930s.But for the Fuxing Society itself, this nominal change is essential to its organizational system, because these changes have taken away the secret power of the Fuxing Society. In 1941, when Kang Ze and Xiao Zuolin were in Chongqing, leading a "special training class" for young people and military cadres with the funding of the Three Youth League, Kang told Xiao that the Three Youth League's activities were comparable to those of the original Fuxingshe Not far.Because a secret organization has more power than an overt one, it works better, Conzer said.He concluded that if the Fuxingshe continued to exist, the KMT's anti-communist activities would be far more effective than they are now.Of course he could also say that compared with Dai Li's first two most hidden and secret activities, the Fuxing Society is only one step away, and it can grow and develop.

But this was moot, because neither of them realized that once the collective Fuxingshe was disbanded under the pressure of the Tanggu Agreement and the Second United Front, it opened the way for a personal secret plan.That is, when Chiang Kai-shek abandoned the secret activities led by the Whampoa collective, Dai Li was able to let go and establish relative independence under the wing of the chairman. In a sense, it was personal, even almost his own secret espionage activities .Chiang was disappointed by all but one of his Whampoa clique's would-be fascist propagandists and police chieftains, a dark and oppressive world that eventually fell into the hands of his "dog and horse," Dai Li.