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28. Hara, “Interview with Former Leaders of the MCP”, pp.350-352, in Hara, (Translated by Liu Xiao Min), Malaiya Huaqiao yu Zhongguo, (Malayan Chinese and China). 原不二夫著、刘晓民译马来亚华侨与中国 , Bangkok, Datong Publisher, 2006. 29. The Straits Times, 30 July 1934. 30. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.22. 31. C. F. Yong, op., cit., p.172. / McLane also refers to this directive. According to him, it instructed the MCP to create a mass party of all races, to organize strikes in the urban areas, and to devise slogans capable of exercising a wider appeal (McLane, op., cit., p.201). 32. Nan Dao Zhi Chun, p.9. 33. Ф. 16 оп.51. 34. SMPF, D6152. NUS Microfilm R0012031. 35. Based on McLane (op., cit., pp.237, 240), Cheah argued that the MCP apparently failed to receive an invitation to attend the [7th World] conference (Cheah., op., cit., p.21). As this letter was monitored and recorded by the SB, the SB should have been aware that the MCP had received the invitation. McLane seemed not to be informed of it. 36. SMPF, D6152. “Letter dated September 25, 1934, from H.B.M. Consulate-General, re. letter intercepted in Singapore and two addresses in Shanghai”. NUS Microfilm R0012031. 37. C. F. Yong, op., cit., pp.166, 172. 38. Hara, 2006, pp.51, 52. 39. SMPF, D6152. 40. Informed from Dr. Leon Comber in March 2015 at ISEAS. 41. Cheah, op., cit., p.71. 96
CHAPTER VI THE MCP AND THE COMINTERN FROM 1935 TO 1939 I 1935 1. A Russian-language document, dated 27 July 1935, is summarized below: Politcomissar held from 20 January 1931 proposed to approve the MCP as its branch at the 7th Congress of the Comintern. 1 For the past one and a half years, this organization lost contact with the Comintern and the CCP which was led by the Comintern. We have not been informed of its activities and organizations. Therefore, the ES refrains from approving its application for affiliating with the Comintern as a section. 2 Another loss of contact was affirmed by the Special Branch in 1935. According to Cheah, the SB reported that throughout 1935, the MCP lost contact with the Comintern apparatus in Shanghai and consequently failed to receive any subsidy and instructions. 3 In fact, as shown in Table 6, though the Comintern received three reports dated March 1934 from the MCP, three other letters dated August 1934 did not reach it. In 1935 none. The above Russian-language document clearly shows that the MCP had not obtained official affiliation with the Comintern. Kurihara also states that the MCP’s membership was not approved right to the end of the Comintern. 4 This crucial piece of information stands at odds with previous views on this matter. Hanrahan had cited the Constitution issued by the Sixth Plenary Session of the CC of the MCP on 6 March 1934. In that Constitution, Article 1 declared that, “The MCP is an affiliate of the Comintern” (emphasis added). 5 In fact, as will be clarified later, the 6th Enlarged Plenum of the CC of the MCP was held in April 1939. According to the MCP’s official document, the first clause of the 1939 Constitution declared that, “The MCP is a preparatory branch ( 预备支部 ) of the Comintern” (emphasis added). 6 However, another MCP document issued in 1946, Nan Dao Zhi Chun, stated that, “The MCP is a branch of the Comintern.” 7 97
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2016 NO. 1 The Malayan Communist Pa
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ISSUE: 2016 NO. 01 CONTENTS Preface
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I would also like to thank Professo
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List of Tables Table 1 Membership o
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Yong contended that the MCP’s ant
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While continuing my research at ISE
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13. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of Sout
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document, dated 15 January 1942, si
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1. Establishment of the Nanyang Pro
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PC members, Wen Xin Ruo (Вень
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The CCP’s instruction was also sa
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In May 1930, under the guidance of
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(15) Tan Tiu-jeng, alias Tan Jui-se
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6. Changes in the Comintern’s Str
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(1) Name of the Party: for several
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Presidium (GC). From the Comintern
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Notes 1. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of
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26. US National Archives & Records
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January 1931 (Ф. 495 оп.62 д.3)
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Soon after this conference [before
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Yong wrote that the MCP was founded
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imperialist can be driven out and t
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With regard to ((3)-(b)), “people
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1-1 From the Comintern Table 6 Exch
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24) 13 Jun. 1939 SC, MCP Resolution
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