In July 1925, the British Cabinet seemingly sealed the fate of the Kuomintang (KMT) movement in Malaya and Singapore by agreeing that “the Governor of the Straits Settlements should be authorised to take the necessary steps for the suppression of the Malayan branches of the Society of Kuo Min Tang”. Although this ban was legally, albeit loosely, imposed by the Governors, Sir Laurence Guillemard and Sir Hugh Clifford, it did not succeed in ending the movement as they had expected. Thus, the KMT movement remained a nagging problem for the British authorities until Sir Cecil Clementi took a strong stand to enforce the ban in February 1930, which effectively paralysed the KMT movement in Malaya and Singapore.