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宋美龄在美国参议院英语演讲稿

宋美龄在美国参议院英语演讲稿

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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.

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.]