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It seemed ra<strong>the</strong>r strange that <strong>the</strong> unified party of all <strong>Malayan</strong>s irrespective of nationals ( 民 族 .<br />
ethnicity) had been organized a year before and yet <strong>the</strong> AAS cont<strong>in</strong>ued to refer to <strong>the</strong> abolishment<br />
of <strong>the</strong> organisational <strong>in</strong>dependence of all national groups and to <strong>the</strong> t<strong>as</strong>ks of unify<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>m. This<br />
w<strong>as</strong> obviously a response to <strong>the</strong> relevant portion of <strong>the</strong> MCP’s letter dated 7 February. It stated that<br />
<strong>the</strong> <strong>Party</strong> would call a national party conference to be attended by Malays, Ch<strong>in</strong>ese, Indians and<br />
Javanese. <strong>The</strong> MCP itself might be conscious that it w<strong>as</strong> <strong>in</strong> reality still dom<strong>in</strong>ated by Ch<strong>in</strong>ese and<br />
<strong>the</strong>re w<strong>as</strong> no concerted, united movement of Ch<strong>in</strong>ese, Malay and Indian members. Ano<strong>the</strong>r<br />
possible re<strong>as</strong>on w<strong>as</strong> simply that <strong>the</strong> AAS had only very bare <strong>in</strong>formation on <strong>the</strong> situation <strong>in</strong> Malaya.<br />
And if <strong>the</strong> MCP’s representatives were not sufficiently trusted <strong>in</strong> Shanghai, that situation seemed to<br />
correspond to <strong>the</strong> po<strong>in</strong>t raised by Wang Yung Hai. He had stated <strong>in</strong> his letter that <strong>the</strong> four comrades<br />
who composed <strong>the</strong> report to <strong>the</strong> FEB knew very little about contemporary conditions <strong>in</strong> Malaya.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se situations might be construed by <strong>the</strong> AAS that <strong>the</strong> MCP w<strong>as</strong> yet to be a national united party.<br />
2. FEB’s Secret Mission to Malaya<br />
(1) Background of <strong>the</strong> mission<br />
Hav<strong>in</strong>g advisory personnel who would directly <strong>in</strong>spect and lead <strong>the</strong> MCP w<strong>as</strong> considered necessary<br />
by various sections. <strong>The</strong> ES wrote on 23 October 1930 that <strong>the</strong> FEB should <strong>in</strong>spect <strong>the</strong> MCP. Wang<br />
Yung Hai’s 28 December 1930 letter had requested that regular connections be established between<br />
<strong>the</strong> FEB and, before that, <strong>the</strong> appo<strong>in</strong>tment of Huang Moh Hang <strong>as</strong> a tentative representative for that<br />
purpose. On 2 January 1931, <strong>the</strong> MCP had requested <strong>the</strong> AAS to send a member of “H<strong>in</strong>du” and<br />
“Java” <strong>Communist</strong> Parties to lead propaganda work among Indians and Malays. A month later, on<br />
1 February 1931, <strong>the</strong> AAS replied that <strong>the</strong> FEB should directly contact <strong>the</strong> MCP. On <strong>the</strong> same day,<br />
ES <strong>as</strong>ked <strong>the</strong> CCP to send a comrade to Malaya.<br />
Before <strong>the</strong> MCP w<strong>as</strong> formed, <strong>the</strong> Plenum of <strong>the</strong> NPC <strong>in</strong> 1928 had requested <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern to send<br />
personnel to undertake surveys and for labour and women’s movements <strong>in</strong> Malaya. After its<br />
formation, <strong>the</strong> MCP requested <strong>in</strong> a Russian-language letter of 25 November 1930 for comrades to<br />
be urgently dispatched who could aid <strong>the</strong>ir work and for <strong>the</strong> Com<strong>in</strong>tern to discuss this issue with<br />
<strong>the</strong> CC of <strong>the</strong> CCP (seeⅡ, note 36). <strong>The</strong>se matters appeared evidently resulted <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> dispatch of<br />
three FEB staff. As Kurihara h<strong>as</strong> noted, from about 1931, apart from <strong>the</strong> CCP networks, <strong>the</strong> FEB<br />
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