都在说言峰绮礼偷税:宋美龄1943年访美演讲盛况[组图]

宋美龄1943年访美演讲盛况[组图] 2009年04月27日 凤凰网历史综合 已有评论392条 

她征服了美国！

美国媒体评价说，美国人对她最深刻的印象是她1943年“征服”美国之旅。宋美龄在美国会发表二十分钟的演说，是美国历史上著名的国会演讲之一

是年2月17日，她抵达华盛顿，受到白宫国宾之礼欢迎。

2月18日，她在罗斯福总统夫人的陪同下在国会众议院发表演说，把中国人民奋力抗战的情况生动地介绍给美国人民，唤起美国对中国的同情与更进一步支持。

演说引起全场多次热烈的掌声，她的演说由收音机转播全美后，每天有数百封来自全美各地的信件寄至白宫，收件人是她。

2月19日，在白宫总统办公室的记者招待会上，她与罗斯福总统夫妇共同接受172名记者采访。穿着一袭黑色旗袍，胸前别着中国空军军徽的宋美龄以一流的口才赢得了大牌记者的好评。

此后，她还在好莱坞发表演说，会见200多位支持中国抗日的世界大牌影星，劳勃·泰勒、贾利·古柏、英格丽·褒曼、凯瑟琳·赫本、亨利·方达、丽泰·海华丝、秀兰·邓波儿等都捐出巨款支持中国抗战。

1942年的宋美龄 

当年美国欢迎宋美龄到访的游行队伍

阅兵和欢迎的民众

2月17日，宋美龄自纽约乘火车抵达华盛顿，患有小儿麻痹而不良与行的罗斯福总统迎于座车内。 

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议员和旁听席上皆座无虚席，国会议员们凝神聆听宋美龄演讲

宋美龄抵达洛杉矶市政厅 

洛杉矶市长Fletcher Bowron讲话，欢迎宋美龄到访

        洛杉矶好莱坞圆形剧场，洛杉矶市民为到访的宋美龄举行盛大的欢迎会 ，宋美龄发表了演讲

洛杉矶好莱坞圆形剧场欢迎会上，与其他官员一起就坐的宋美龄 

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洛杉矶唐人街上欢迎的人群

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洛杉矶唐人街，宋美龄到达时接受献花

洛杉矶旧唐人街，致欢迎词 

实拍宋美龄美国演讲盛况

        欢欣鼓舞华人

        1943年5月在好莱坞露天剧场面对美国3万名观众所进行的演讲，呼吁美国民众支持中国抗战。

好莱坞人头攒动的露天剧场 

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实拍宋美龄美国演讲盛况

  宋美龄1943年访美演讲 全文         议长先生，美国参议院各位议员，各位女士、先生， 受到诸位所代表的美国人民热情与真诚的欢迎，令我感动莫名。我事先不知今天要在参议院发表演说，只以为要到此说声「大 家好，很高兴见到各位」，并向贵国人民转达敝国百姓的问候之意。不过，在来到此地之 前，贵国副总统告诉我，他希望我和各位说几句话。

　　我并不擅于即席演说，事实上根本称不上是演说家，但我不会因此怯场，因为前几天我在 海德公园参观过总统图书馆，在那里看见的一些东西鼓励了我，让我感觉各位或许不会对 我的即席演说要求太多。各位知道我在那里见到什么吗？我看到了许多，但最让我感兴趣 的，莫过于一个放着总统先生(译按，即罗斯福总统）演说草稿的玻璃箱，里头从第一份草 稿、第二份草稿，一直到第六份草稿。昨天，我碰巧向总统先生提及此事，我说我很高兴 知道，以他如此知名又公认一流的演说家，还必须写这么多份草稿。他回答说，有时他一 次演说得写12份草稿。因此，今天本人在此发表的即席演说，我确信各位一定会包容。

　　贵国和敝国之间有着160年悠久历史的情谊，我觉得贵国人民和敝国百姓有许许多多的相似 点，而这些相似点正是两国情谊的基础，我也相信不是只有我有这样的感觉。

　　在此，我想说个小故事，来说明此一信念。杜立德将军和部下一起去轰炸东京，回程时有 些美国子弟兵不得不在中国内陆跳伞。其中一人后来告诉我，他被迫从飞机跳伞，踏上中国的土地时，看到当地居民跑向他，他就挥着手，喊出他会说的唯一一句中国话：「美国 ，美国」，也就是「美利坚」的意思，美国在中国话的意思是「美丽的国家」。

　　这个大男孩说，敝国人民听了都笑开来，拥抱他，像欢迎失散多年的兄弟一般。他还告诉 我说，当他看到我们的人民，感觉他已经回到家；而那是他第一次来到中国。

　　我来到贵国时是个小女孩，我熟悉贵国人民，我和他们一起生活过。我生命中成长的岁月 是和贵国人民一起度过，我说你们的话，我想的和你们一样,说的也和你们一样。所以今天 来到这里，我也感觉我好像回到家了。

　　不过，我相信不只是我回到家，我觉得，如果中国人民会用你们的语言与你们说话，或是 你们能了解我们的语言，他们会告诉你们，根本而言，我们都在为相同的理念奋斗；我们有一致的理想；亦即贵国总统向全世界揭示的「四个自由」，自由的钟声、 联合国自由的钟声，和侵略者的丧钟响彻我国辽阔的土地。

　　谨向各位保证，敝国人民深愿亦渴望为实现这些理想和贵国合作，因为我们希望这些理想 不会流于空言，而是成为我们、我们的子子孙孙、全人类的真况实境。

　　我们要如何实现这些理想我想，我可以告诉各位一个我刚想到的小故事。各位知道，中国 是一个非常古老的国家。我们有五千年历史。我们被迫从汉口撤退，转入大后方继续抵抗 侵略的时候，蒋委员长和我经过一处前线，就在长沙。有一天，我们上衡山，山上有一处 有名的遗迹，叫「磨镜台」，是两千多年前的古迹。诸位或许有兴趣听听这古迹的故事。

　　两千年前，台址近旁有一座古老的佛寺。一名年轻和尚来此修行，他整天盘腿坐禅，双手 合十，口中喃喃念着「阿弥陀佛!阿弥陀佛!阿弥陀佛!」他唱念佛号，日复一日，因为 他希望成佛。
　
　　寺里的住持于是也跟着拿一块砖去磨一块石头，时时刻刻的磨，一天又一天的磨，一周又 一周的磨。小和尚有时抬眼瞧瞧老和尚在做什么。住持只是一个劲儿拿砖磨石。终于有一 天，小和尚对住持说，「大师，您每天拿这块砖磨石头，到底为什么呢」住持答道：「我 要用这块砖做镜子。」小和尚说：「可砖块是做不成镜子的呀，大师。」「没错，」住持 说，「就像你成天光念阿弥陀佛，是成不了佛的。」

　　因此，朋友们，我觉得，我们不但必须有理想，不但要昭告我们有理想，我们还必须以行 动来落实理想。所以，我要对诸位参议员先生，以及旁听席上的女士先生说，没有 我们大家的积极协助，我们的领袖无法落实这些理想。诸位和我都必须紧记「磨镜台」的教训。
　　我谢谢大家。


      下面是演讲原文

The committee appointed by Vice president, preceded by the Secretary of the Senate (Edwin A. Halsey), and the Sergeant at Arms (Wall Doxey), and consisting of Mr. Barkley, Mr. McNary, Mr. Connally, Mr. Capper, And Mrs. Caraway, entered the Chamber at the main door and escorted Mme. Chiang Kai-shek to a seat at the desk immediately in front of the Vice President.

(Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was greeted with prolonged applause, Senators and guests of the Senate rising.)

The VICE PRESIDENT. Senators, distinguished guests, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Generalissimo of the armies of China, will now address you.
[Applause]

ADDRESS BY MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Mr. President, Members of the Senate of the United States, ladies and gentlemen, I am overwhelmed by the warmth and spontaneity of the welcome of the American people, of whom you are the representatives. I did not know that I was to speak to you today at the Senate except to say, “How do you do? I am so very glad to see you,” and to bring the greetings to my people
to the people of America. However, just before coming here, the Vice President told me that he would like to have me say a few words to you.

I am not a very good extemporaneous speaker; in fact, I am no speaker at all; but I am not so very much discouraged, because a few days ago I was at Hyde Park, and went to the President’s library. Something I saw there encouraged me, and made me feel that perhaps you will not expect overmuch of me in speaking to you extemporaneously. What do you think I saw there? I saw
many things. But the one thing which interested me most of all was that in a glass case there was the first draft of tone of the President’s speeches, a second draft, and on and on up to the sixth draft. Yesterday I happened to mention this fact to the President, and told him that I was extremely glad that he had to write so many drafts when he is such a well-known and
acknowledgedly fine speaker. His reply to me was that sometimes he writes 12 drafts of a speech. So, my remarks here today, being extemporaneous, I am sure you will make allowances for me.

The traditional friendship between your country and mine has a history of 160 years. I feel, and I believe that I am now the only one who feels this way, that there are a great many similarities between your people and mine, and that these similarities are the basis of our friendship.

I should like to tell you a little story which will illustrate this belief. When General Doolittle and his men went to bomb Tokyo, on their return some of your boys had to bail out in the interior of China. One of them later told me that he had to mail out of his ship. And that when he landed on Chinese soil and saw the populace running toward him, he just waved his arm and shouted the only Chinese word he knew, “Mei-kuo, Mei-kuo,” which means “America,” [Applause.] Literally translated from the Chinese it means “Beautiful country.” This boy said that our people laughed and almost hugged him, and greeted him like a long lost brother. He further told me that the thought that he had come home when he saw our people; and that was the first time he had ever been to China. [Applause.]

I came to your country as a little girl. I know your people. I have lived with them. I spent the formative years of my life amongst your people. I speak your language, not only the language of your hearts, but also your tongue. So coming here today I feel that I am also coming home. [Applause.]

I believe, however, that it is not only I who am coming home; I feel that if the Chinese people could speak to you in your own tongue, or if you could understand our tongue, they would tell you that basically and fundamentally we are fighting for the same cause [great applause]; that we have identity of ideals’ that the “four freedoms,” which your President proclaimed to
the world, resound throughout our vast land as the gong of freedom, the gong of freedom of the United Nations, and the death knell of the aggressors. [Applause.]

I assure you that our people are willing and eager to cooperate with you in the realization of these ideals, because we want to see to it that they do not echo as empty phrases, but become realities for ourselves, for your children, for our children’s children, and for all mankind. [Applause.]

How are we going to realize these ideals? I think I shall tell you a little story which just came to my mind. As you know, China is a very old nation. We have a history of 5,000 years. When we were obliged to evacuate Hankow and go into the hinterland to carry on and continue our resistance against
aggression, the Generalissimo and I passed one of our fronts, the Changsha front. One day we went in to the Heng-yang Mountains, where there are traces of a famous pavilion called “Rub-the-mirror” pavilion, which perhaps interest you to hear the story of that pavilion.

Two thousand years ago near that spot was an old Buddhist temple. One of the young monks went there , and all day long he sat cross-legged, with his hands clasped before him in and attitude of prayer, and murmured “Amita-Buddha! Amita-Buddha! Amita-Buddha!” He murmured and chanted day after day, because he hoped that he would acquire grace.

The Father Prior of that temple took a piece of brick and rubbed it against a stone hour after hour, day after day, and week after week. The little acolyte, being very young, sometimes cast his eyes around to see what the old Father Prior was doing. The old Father Prior just kept on this work of rubbing the brick against the stone. So one day the young acolyte said to him, “Father Prior, what are you doing day after day rubbing this brick of stone?” The Father Prior replied, “I am trying to make a mirror out of this brick.” The young acolyte said, “But it is impossible to make a mirror out of a brick, Father Prior.” “Yes,” said the Father Prior, “and it is just as impossible for you to acquire grace by doing nothing except
murmur ‘Amita-Buddha’ all day long, day in and day out.” [Applause.]

So my friends, I feel that it is necessary for us not only to have ideals and to proclaim that we have them, it is necessary that we act to implement them. [Applause.] And so to you, gentlemen of the Senate, and to you ladies and gentleman in the galleries, I say that without the active help of all of us, our leaders cannot implement these ideals. It’s up to you and to me to take to heart the lesson of “Rub-the-Mirror” pavilion.

I thank you. [Great applause, Senators and their guests rising.]

Following her address, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and the distinguished visitors accompanying her and the others guests of the Senate were escorted from the Chamber.

讲演全文取自美国国会记录，1943年,1080-1081页