Excerpt from Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary These doubts, moreover, were taken for granted, and even some of my comrades began to entertain doubts concerning the realisation of my programme. Therefore it turned out that my programme had less chances of being realised when I held the post of President than when I was the leader of the Party which was preparing the Revolution. Hence the attempt at reconstruction was not successful, 'and the national tasks, which I put forward, were abandoned after the Revolution. The Chinese Revolution, in the minds of many, was called upon to overthrow the Manchu dynasty and replace itby the tyranny of a group of bandits even more savage and rapacious than the former Tai — tsing Government. This was the direct cause of the further intolerable yoke that cast a shadow over the Chinese people. If we analyse our first promptings to. Carry out the Chinese Revolution, we shall see that we had in View the salvation of the Chinese people and the country whereas the result has been quite the opposite, and the Chinese people IS becoming more and more oppressed, the country more and more unhappy.