一位美国传教士的和平幻想——司徒雷登与中日和谈

AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY'S ILLUSION FOR PEACE:LEIGHTON STUART AND SINO-JAPANESE PEACE TALKS

司徒雷登是一位美国传教士的儿子,生下来就和中国结下了不解之缘,他一生中最有影响的事业是创办燕京大学,并由此成为在中国有根底、受尊重的外国人。许多后人替他惋惜:如果他在战后不与马歇尔一起调停国共内战,如果他不在中国的社会大变动时期就任美国驻华大使,那么他仍然能保持教育家的美名而不至于成为失败的美国对华政策的牺牲品,遭到毛泽东在《别了,司徒雷登》一文中辛辣的讽刺与批判。惋惜代替不了现实,事实上,自燕京大学诞生于中国大地那天起,在中国发生的每一场重大政治风暴都曾引起了未名湖水的波澜,作为校长的司徒雷登不会也无法置身事外,他的背景。

Driven by his idealism and non-violent religious belief,LeightonStuart who saw China as his second home made unwearied ef-forts to promote peace talks between China and Japan duringthe war,but his idealism based on American concepts was ineptto solve the conflicts between the two antagonizing countries.This failure foreshadowed the tragedy in his later years as theambassador to China.