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is not worthy of salvation.
But I think the Chinese are not
so seriously paralyzed. The Communists have not put into
practice in Hunan and Hupeh one per cent of their policies,
yet everyone has been reduced to misery. In Shanghai and
Hangchow they have not yet carried out one thousandth of them
yet it has shocked us to the heart and pained us terribly,
and complaints in letters and telegrams, as numerous as snow
flakes, have been received from workmen and peasants in
various places in Kwangtung and Fukien. Are we so paralyzed
that we shall not complain until we have been beheaded?
Moreover, can the present international circumstances permit
China to undergo another gigantic experiment without experiencing a miserable calamity? Though others would not grudge staking the lives and welfare of the Chinese, can we
Chinese ourselves really neglect our own lives and welfare
like that? Our dear masses of China! All of you should
wake up.
If I leave the masses to the perpetual oppression
of the militarists, or in the course of our National
Revolution secretly surrender China to the terrorism of the
Communists, I shall be neglecting my duty as a revolutionary
soldier, and shall be a sinner against thousands of generations to come. If you sit on the fence while our Kuomintang members and our National Revolutionary soldiers are making sacrifices in the field and only murmur when the
situation becomes hopeless, you will not only be sinners
against our Chinese race for many generations to come, but
will also be ashamed of yourselves. It is the duty of our
national revolutionary army to help our people to secure a proper development of their freedom. Our Kuomintang, the true believers of the "Three Aspects of Democracy", will
guide you in forming your organisations and in getting a satisfactory