试析七七事变后英国在对日经济制裁问题上的犹豫态度

Analysis of British Hesitation on Economic Sanction Against Japan After Lugou Bridge Incident

1937年日本对中国展开的全面入侵,沉重打击了凡尔赛-华盛顿体系,而日军在沦陷区展开的经济侵略也严重损害了英国在远东的利益。为了国联的声誉以及英国在远东的利益,虽然无力诉诸军事制裁,伦敦仍然准备通过经济制裁削弱日本的战力,进而迫使日本停止对华侵略。但由于美国在协同对日经济制裁问题上的冷淡态度、政府内部反对声音的存在等原因,英政府在对日经济制裁问题上畏首畏尾,始终不敢采取实质性行动。直至1941年,伴随着美国对日经济制裁的展开,英国才将谋划已久的对日经济制裁措施付诸实施。

Though being powerless to executing militarily sanction, for the sake of the reputation of The League of Nations and British local interest in this region, London prepared to weak Japanese militarily strength through economic sanction and forced Japan to cease his invasion. But due to American reluctance to cooperating with British for economic sanction against Japan and the objection within British government, British hesitated to executing economic sanction against Japan. Only after Japanese occupied the southern French Indochina and American execution of economic sanction against Japan, British started to put his planed economic sanction into effect.