Hong Kuo-shu

Hong Kuo-shu was a Laeralian politician and political theorist who held numerous government positions during the Republican Era, including serving as Party Secretary of the Social Democratic Party from 1947 to 1952. A Gramontist theorist known for his theoretical work, Hong served in the Army for Democracy and Progress during the Laeralian Civil War and was appointed as leader of the National Rural Reconstruction Administration. A leading light in the Republican government's rural programs, Hong was named as the leading Social Democratic Party candidate in the 1932 Laeralian legislative election. Serving as prime minister for five years, Hong next became vice-president of Laeral during President J.P. Salaun's second term. It was during this period that Hong authored the Scientific Program for Virtue and Self-

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