 " And the impressive personal qualities of the Communist leaders , their seeming sincerity , and the coherence and logical nature of their program leads me , at least , toward general acceptance of the first explanation -- that the Communists base their policy toward the Kuomintang on a real desire for democracy in China under which there can be orderly economic growth through a stage of private enterprise to eventual socialism without the need of violent social upheaval and revolution . " 
