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consistent? In April 1930, Wu Ch<strong>in</strong>g w<strong>as</strong> secretary of <strong>the</strong> NPC. 19 Among <strong>the</strong> Provisional<br />
Committee members of <strong>the</strong> NPC, <strong>the</strong>re w<strong>as</strong> Wang Yue (see Chapter I). He must probably be Ong<br />
Juat-pho [Wang Yue Bo]. None of <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r PC members of <strong>the</strong> NPC related to <strong>the</strong> 6 communists<br />
w<strong>as</strong> arrested on 29 April. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, among <strong>the</strong> 13 members of <strong>the</strong> NPC <strong>as</strong> at August 1928, 20<br />
only Ong Juat-pho w<strong>as</strong> arrested at <strong>the</strong> N<strong>as</strong>sim Road Incident (Wu Ch<strong>in</strong>g jo<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>the</strong> NPC later <strong>in</strong><br />
1929). 21 Thus, a sole “member of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Party</strong> [NPC] CC” should be Ong Juat-pho (Lee Kuan-jun)<br />
and “Secretary of <strong>the</strong> LU” should be secretary of <strong>the</strong> NGLU, Mah Tso-jen. This <strong>in</strong>terpretation<br />
appears consistent enough. If so, <strong>the</strong> CC members of <strong>the</strong> MCP had not officially been decided yet<br />
by 29 April.<br />
It should be noted that Ch<strong>in</strong> Peng, Secretary General of <strong>the</strong> MCP from 1947, recalled <strong>in</strong> 1999 that<br />
he had read an article of <strong>the</strong> organ of <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern [Com<strong>in</strong>form (<strong>Communist</strong> Information Bureau)<br />
that w<strong>as</strong> founded <strong>in</strong> 1947?] <strong>in</strong> 1950 or 1951. <strong>The</strong> article mentioned that <strong>the</strong> MCP had been<br />
established on 1 July 1930. Immediately <strong>the</strong>n, Ch<strong>in</strong> Peng said, <strong>the</strong> MCP decided to take that date to<br />
be <strong>the</strong>ir party’s “birthday”. In 1959 or 1960, two lead<strong>in</strong>g MCP members <strong>as</strong>ked Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h <strong>in</strong><br />
Hanoi about <strong>the</strong> date of <strong>the</strong> party’s establishment and w<strong>as</strong> told that it w<strong>as</strong> a day <strong>in</strong> April, perhaps<br />
<strong>the</strong> latter half of April. Hence, for convenience’s sake, <strong>the</strong> leaders said <strong>the</strong>y took <strong>the</strong> l<strong>as</strong>t day of<br />
April to be <strong>the</strong>ir “birthday”. 22 In his own memoir, Ch<strong>in</strong> Peng stated that he had also <strong>as</strong>ked Ho Chi<br />
M<strong>in</strong>h about <strong>the</strong> date <strong>in</strong> Hanoi <strong>in</strong> 1961. Ho recalled see<strong>in</strong>g red May Day (1 May) banners flutter<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> streets when he emerged from <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>augural meet<strong>in</strong>g. <strong>The</strong>reafter, “b<strong>as</strong>ed our calculations<br />
[follow<strong>in</strong>g] Ho’s recollections”, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Party</strong> claimed 30 April <strong>as</strong> its Found<strong>in</strong>g Day. 23<br />
On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, Yong <strong>in</strong>sisted that <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>augural conference of early to mid-April, from<br />
among over 20 delegates who founded <strong>the</strong> MCP, a CC of 11 w<strong>as</strong> elected, and this CC <strong>in</strong> turn chose<br />
a three-man stand<strong>in</strong>g committee (SC). In mid-April 1930, <strong>the</strong> SC consisted of Lei, secretary, Wu,<br />
organization head and Fu, propaganda head. 24<br />
It should be necessary now to trace Ho Chi M<strong>in</strong>h’s exact foot pr<strong>in</strong>t. Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Sophie, Ho’s<br />
comrade, Hoang Van Hoan, testified that Ho had arrived <strong>in</strong> Bangkok around <strong>the</strong> end of March 1930,<br />
proceeded to Udon [Nor<strong>the</strong><strong>as</strong>t Thailand] and <strong>the</strong>n returned to Bangkok on 20 April. He w<strong>as</strong> issued<br />
a p<strong>as</strong>sport <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> name of Sung Man Shao by <strong>the</strong> Consul General of <strong>the</strong> National Government of<br />
Ch<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Straits Settlements on 28 April 1930. 25 If so, Ho might still be <strong>in</strong> Thailand <strong>in</strong> early to<br />
mid-April and <strong>the</strong>n might have arrived <strong>in</strong> Malaya <strong>in</strong> late April.<br />
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