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In October 1911, Sun Yat-sen ’ s forces succeeded in their revolution to depose the Manchu Dynasty.

Sun Yat-sen was in America on a fund raising trip when he received word that he was to be the president of the new Chinese provisional government.

He immediately contacted Lea to help arrange American and British governmental support for the revolutionary cause.

Sun Yat-sen and Lea believed in forming an Anglo-Saxon alliance with China that would grant the United States and Great Britain special status for their support.

Lea, who was in Wiesbaden, Germany, receiving medical treatment for his failing eyesight, met Sun Yat-sen in London, but they failed to obtain the desired Anglo-American support.