為了幫助鄉親們了解這段故事及其精確的內容,建州運動今天特別把那一段的英文原文打出來,並張貼在下面,供大家參考,大家也可以轉貼流傳,讓更多鄉親分享。我們把出處與原文加以交待,並忠實地加以複製,這樣大家才不會以訛傳訛,讓中國人或老K笑我們台灣人與台美人是老土或「沒人才」,連杜魯門講過什麼話,都搞不清楚。
我在1970年代到美國來留學,在離開台灣前,我不知在何時何地讀到李敖寫的一篇文章或一本書,李敖在那裡頭,就提到杜魯門痛罵蔣家的這一段。由於我與USIS(美國新聞處)的人很熟,所以我就請他們設法為我拿到杜魯門總統的「口述傳記」,他們幫我借到一本,我就借回家讀。杜魯門一根腸子通到底,他罵起人(他痛罵了一些人)來,總是痛快淋漓,像我這種對蔣介石沒有什麼好感的人讀起來當然會大呼過癮。
我因為是在東岸讀書,所以就有機會去紐約的舊書店Strand Bookstore找一些天下奇書,我那時就買了一本「杜魯門總統口述傳記」,並再讀了一遍,我最近這次來美國西岸長住,又在Pasadena市的舊書店(這家舊書店已歇業一年多了)買到一本,所以我又重點再讀一次。
這本「口述傳記」的基本資料如下:
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S Truman
By Merle Miller
(Berkley Books, New York, 1974)
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杜魯門總統痛罵蔣介石家族那一段出現在該書第24章,那章的標題是”Firing the General”(把麥帥解職)。
我們現在不談其他,只把與蔣介石家族有關的那一部分打出來,我也試著揣摩與還原火爆與率直的老杜魯門的口氣來翻譯或意譯:
(Merle問杜魯門) Mr. President, I know why you fired General MacArthur, but if you don’t mind, I’d like to hear it in your own words.
(杜魯門回答) “------- Whatever they did, they’d be more trouble than they were worth, and any money we spent to support them would end up ---- a good deal of it would end up in the pockets of Chiang and the Madame and the Soong and Kung families.”[麥帥與宋美齡在華府的中國遊說團希望我讓蔣介石的部隊參加韓戰,但蔣的殘兵敗將只是一群窩囊廢,哪能派上用場?蔣介石那幫人只會給我帶來麻煩,根本沒什麼鳥用,我們支持他,給他錢,那些錢只會----- 那些錢多半會跑到蔣介石、宋美齡以及孔(祥熙)宋(子文)家族的口袋裡。]
(Merle問杜魯門) Mr. President, did you ever meet Chiang Kai-shek?
(杜魯門回答) “-------But ole ‘Vinegar Joe’ Stilwell ----- came to see me, and he said, ‘You know, Mr. President, that Chiang Kai-shek is nothing but a damn son of a bitch,------. “ [ 史迪威將軍來拜訪我,他跟我說,總統,您知道,那蔣該死只不過是一個他媽的狗娘養的。]
(Merle接腔說) “In the Army they used to call him, the GI’s who were over in China called Chiang Chancre Jack. And In England during the war they had a radio program; I believe it was a radio program with a character name Cash-my-Check. A Chinese general.” [在中國的美國大兵管蔣介石叫做「梅毒傑克」,在英國,他被稱影射為專門挖我們的錢、只會把我們的支票拿去兌換現金的中國將領。] (注: 在蔣介石擔任孫文創辦的黃埔軍校的校長的時期,被人稱為校長夫人或蔣夫人的是陳潔如,由於蔣要娶宋美齡,所以把陳流放美國,陳在美國寫了一本回憶錄,說蔣罹患梅毒。]
(杜魯門繼續開罵) “------I discovered after some time that Chiang Kai-shek and the Madame and their families, the Soong family and the Kungs, were all thieves, every last one of them, the Madame and him included. And they stole seven hundred and fifty million dollars out of the thirty-five billion that we sent to Chiang. They stole it, and it’s invested in real estate down in Sao Paulo and some right here in New York.------“ [在不久之後,我就發現蔣介石、宋美齡以及孔(祥熙)宋(子文)家族都是偷美援的賊,他們每個人都是,包括宋美齡與蔣介石,他們從350億美援中偷了7億5千萬元,他們偷了那些錢,然後在巴西聖保羅投資房地產,有一些則投資在紐約。]
台灣建州運動發起人周威霖
David C. Chou
Founder, Formosa Statehood Movement
(an organization devoted in current stage to making Taiwan a territorial commonwealth of the United States)