However, Hu Shi's basic attitude towards the war of resistance against Japan is "striving for change", so his diplomatic activities mainly focus on how to influence American leaders in order to promote this "change" as soon as possible. However, the increasingly severe domestic anti-Japanese war situation will not allow Hu Shi to "wait" in the foreseeable future. The first thing that must be solved is how to "struggle". In this case, in June of 1940, Song Ziwen, as the "personal representative" of Chiang Kai-shek, was sent to the United States to deal with what he called "family affairs", in fact, in order to win a loan from the United States. Because of the special relationship between Song Ziwen and Chiang Kai-shek, people ridiculed him as the "ambassador to Taiwan" at that time.
From1June 26th, 940, when Song Ziwen arrived in New Zealand, to1September 8th, 942, when Hu Shi left, due to the differences in analyzing problems and handling affairs, as well as the personal relationship between the two sides, the contradictions and disputes between Hu Shi and Song Ziwen can be said to be consistent with this period.
When Song Ziwen first arrived in the United States, Hu Shi accompanied him to meet with American dignitaries such as Roosevelt, Jones, Hull, Wells and Hamilton. But a week later, the two sides had their first conflict in the United States. On the evening of July 2, Hu Shi stopped at the hotel where Song Ziwen stayed. Song Ziwen thought that President Roosevelt had promised to help, and the loan was certainly expected. Hu Shi, who has served as ambassador to the United States for nearly two years, doesn't think so. He said, "Wen Zi, you have many advantages, but you have no patience! It's not that easy. "
Hu Shi's words were like a pot of cold water, which dampened Song Ziwen's enthusiasm. Song Ziwen immediately criticized Chen Guangfu's two loans (namely "Tongyou Loan" and "Yunxi Loan"). Although Chen Guangfu was ostensibly in charge of these two loans, in fact Hu Shi was also involved and made considerable efforts. International and domestic public opinion believes that they played a "booster" role in China's anti-Japanese war. Hu Shi couldn't help saying to Song Ziwen, "I want to warn you: First, you can't borrow money quickly. Second, the loan terms cannot be much better than Guangfu. The terms of recovery are not much better under the existing laws. "
12 In July, under the coercion of Japan, the British government decided to make temporary concessions to Japan on the Myanmar issue, regardless of harming China's interests in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Hu Shi was very anxious after learning about it, and frequently contacted the US Foreign Ministry, demanding that after Britain made a decision against China's war of resistance, the United States could quickly and publicly express its firm support for China's war of resistance.
Song Ziwen was also worried about this, but instead of trying to solve the problem, he made a big fuss about Hu Shi's speech. He said to Hu Shi, "Don't blame me for being outspoken. Many people in China say that you talk too much and are too careless. You still mind your own business! " Song Ziwen's words deeply hurt Hu Shi's heart, because Hu Shi regarded his speech as the best means for a scholar to engage in diplomacy; In addition, during this period, he was quite dissatisfied with the domestic media reports about replacing the ambassador to the United States, and Song Ziwen's criticism was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.
1 65438+129 October, the day before Japan was ready to formally recognize Wang's puppet regime, the United States decided to immediately grant China a long-delayed loan of1100 million yuan in order to show its support for the Chongqing government. Song Ziwen in Washington immediately called Hu Shi in new york, saying that he had something important to discuss with him, and told Hu Shi not to return to Washington and wait for him in new york. After failing to get in touch with Hu Shi himself, he left the phone number of the hotel where Hu Shi stayed, and asked Li Guoqing and others to tell Hu Shi to wait for him in new york. Song Ziwen obviously didn't want Hu Shi to share the credit for the success of the loan, so when Hu Shi later learned of Song Ziwen's "coup", he couldn't help but satirize Song Ziwen's practice that "this is really the behavior of a great politician in a country loyal to the masses".
65438+February 17 is Hu Shi's birthday. Hu Shi lamented his work this year, and at the same time, he got a more dialectical understanding of the difficulties in doing things: the evolution of the international situation is more and more favorable to China, which has indeed reduced the difficulties in doing things. However, the arrival of a group of "ambassadors" made it a little more difficult to do things, and I "had to put up with this idleness." Despite this, Hu Shi still insists on his own proposition, that is, "do some face for the country" and "make people hate us less, despise us less, and make people know more about us".
194 1 year 65438+1October 23rd, the White House released Laurin? Currie and others will go to China to investigate the financial situation of the appointment. On 28th, Hu Shi learned from hornbeck that everything that Currie and others went to China was planned by Song Ziwen. At first, he wanted to invite Keynes, but after being rejected, he turned to Currie. Neither the U.S. Foreign Office nor the Treasury Department knows about it. When Currie asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for instructions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs only said that it had no objection, "because Currie and others went to China at the expense of the China government. Hu Shi thinks that Song Ziwen's move is not worth it, because Currie is friendly to China, but he doesn't understand the monetary system, so it is obviously impossible for him to investigate China's financial situation.
On April 15, President Roosevelt made an appointment with Hu Shi and Song Ziwen. Those who returned to the United States from China were Morganser, Vice Minister of Finance Bell, Currie and others. Song Ziwen gushed, and Hu Shi didn't even get in a word. Hu Shi didn't record this conversation in detail in his diary as before, and the sentence "full text alone" exposed Hu Shi's great dissatisfaction with this.
On April 2 1 day, Morgan made an appointment with Hu Shi and Song Ziwen. The atmosphere of the talks was not as relaxed as before. morgenthau suddenly flew into a rage with an expression on his face, denouncing Song Ziwen for not colluding with American politicians and putting pressure on him. Hu Shi, who advocated "frankness" and "waterfowl-style" diplomacy, also disapproved of some "small moves" of Song Ziwen. He thinks that morgenthau's anger may be "the anger accumulated in several months poured out together".
10 On February 23rd, Chongqing Municipal Government prepared
When Song Ziwen was appointed Foreign Minister, Hu Shi called Song Ziwen. Song Ziwen said that he didn't know anything before, and he hasn't decided whether to take office.
On February 1942, 1 1, Song Ziwen issued an absurd and strange order to Hu Shi with the official document of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-"Ask the US Treasury not to freeze my account in the following banks through the State Council?" Among them, six banks are on the list, which is actually the "national wealth" made by Song Ziwen in wartime. Therefore, after the war, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that Song Ziwen's "financial resources for starting a public office are very limited, and (by 1943 65438+ 10) he has saved more than 70 million dollars". No wonder American writer Moore? When Miller interviewed President Truman, Truman was so angry that he cursed: "All thieves, all fucking thieves? They stole $750 million from the $3.8 billion we gave Jiang. "
On May 6th, 2007, Hu Shi wrote a long letter to Weng and Wang Shijie, expressing his strong dissatisfaction.
/kloc-In September of 0/8, Hu Shi left his official residence in twin oaks, ending his four-year ambassador career and the contest between American "scholar ambassador" and "Taiwanese ambassador".