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中国与太平洋彼岸的美国之间的关系,在抗日战争时期的整个中外关系格局中,占有举足轻重的地位;而在战时中美关系的演变过程中,宋子文堪称中国方面的第一号角色。 抗日战争爆发之初,美国政府的对华政策颇为消极。美国曾以“中立”的姿态出现,要求中日双方都不以武力解决争端;并拒绝了国民政府的数次请求,不愿直接出面制止日本的侵略行径。在1937年11月召开的布鲁塞尔九国公约签字国会议期间,美方代表对中方要求制裁日本、援助中国的强烈呼吁,反应十分冷淡,甚至劝说中国接受日本一手炮制的伪满洲国的“现状”,以与日本
China’s relations with the United States on the other side of the Pacific Ocean occupy a pivotal position in the entire pattern of Sino-foreign relations during the Sino-Japanese War. Soong was the No. 1 Chinese character in the evolution of Sino-U.S. Relations during the war. At the beginning of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the U.S. government’s China policy was quite negative. The United States once appeared in a “neutral” attitude and demanded that both China and Japan refrain from using force to settle their disputes. They also rejected several requests from the Kuomintang government and would not come forward to stop Japan’s aggression directly. During the meeting of signatories of the Brussels-G-9 convention held in November 1937, the representative of the United States reacted very coldly to the strong demand of China for sanctions against Japan and aid to China and even persuaded China to accept the “status quo” of the puppet Manchukuo, With Japan