A New Analysis of the 1938 Incident of"Restoring Kuomintang Membership"to CPC Leaders
In June 1938,the Central Supervisory Committee of the Kuomintang passed a resolution declaring that Nationalist Party membership would be restored to 26 individuals,including 7 CPC leaders,such as Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.Subsequently,the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang issued an"unauthorized"statement.This incident,far from being a mere misunderstanding,involved disagreements between the Kuomin-tang and the CPC regarding the organizational forms of the United Front.The resolution by the Central Supervisory Committee objectively revived the cross-party approach during the first KMT-CPC era of cooperation,but the Yan-gtze River Bureau of the CPC immediately"rejected"it.The Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee,stead-fast in its resistance to a policy of"tolerating Communists,"subtly overturned the preceding resolution,while the CPC Central Committee deemed that public acknowledgment of the Central Supervisory Committee's decision would be more advantageous.Divergent assessments on all sides precipitated a series of twists and turns in the in-cident,profoundly impacting the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front.
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