In fact, there is no need for Zhou Hexuan to remind you that the Nanjing government's consistent policy is to "use foreigners to control foreigners."
After the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the "Tianyu Statement", Nanjing immediately dispatched diplomats and actively contacted ministers from various countries in China, hoping to obtain greater support from the international community.
The ministers of various countries stationed in China quickly conveyed the opinions of their respective governments and were willing to provide China with a certain amount of assistance. However, this kind of assistance requires repayment, and China must provide corresponding benefits in exchange. In particular, Britain and France appear to be the most stingy.
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On the contrary, the United States has been quite generous. Anyway, American agricultural products are seriously unsaleable, so it doesn't matter if they are shipped over to support China.
Don't think that the Americans are the good guys and the British and French are the bad guys. The reason for this is that Britain and France have already gained enough market in China, and the United States must show some sincerity to make friends if it wants to catch up from behind.
Chinese government.
Just like the "Wheat and Cotton Loan Contract" and the "Secret Agreement on Sino-US Airline" signed last year, they are all goodwill released by American capitalists. They want to exchange for a larger Chinese market. It is said to be a secret agreement, but in fact it was not long after it was signed.
The media revealed that the "Tianyu Statement" issued by Japan was largely aimed at the United States.
However, fundamentally speaking, the life and death of China has nothing to do with the Yankees. After Japan issued the "Tianyu Statement", the US Secretary of State actually said: "What we are more interested in now and in the future is not China's independence, but China's independence."
It’s America’s freedom of action in the Pacific.”
The Americans have no moral integrity. While they support China in exchange for a larger market, they also frantically sell strategic materials to Japan to help Japan invade China more smoothly.
Until the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, loans and supplies from the United States continued to be imported into Japan. At that time, the ratio of the supplies Japan purchased from the United States to Japan's total military supplies imports was: 90% scrap steel, 45% lead, and 90% copper.
Petroleum and petroleum products account for 65%, and machine tools required for aircraft and tanks account for 70%.
In other words, at least half of the aircraft, tanks, and artillery shells used by Japan when it invaded China were produced by materials sold by the United States.
In the middle of World War II, former US Secretary of State Stimson (who pursued interventionism and advocated aid to China) pointed out with great dissatisfaction: "Japan's aggression is strongly supported by our country. Not only is this aggressive behavior supported, but our assistance is so effective and important.
If aid is cut off, this aggression can be checked and stopped."
Zhou Hexuan's article was published with the magazine "Fei Gong" and immediately caused a huge response from all walks of life. At least the content of "building a united front for the entire nation" was recognized by many.
Not only recognition, the Communist Party and progressives have even begun to take practical actions.
The "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee" secretly planned by the Communist Party and initiated by progressives such as Mrs. Sun, He Xiangning, Zhang Naiqi, etc. has entered the formal preparatory stage. All-China Federation of Trade Unions, China Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist Alliance and other groups have launched
Accordingly, even Zhou Hexuan’s Chinese branch of the International Anti-Fascist Alliance received invitations.
Tianjin, Sanletang.
Cui Huifu brought an express letter and said, "Sir, it's from Shanghai."
Zhou Hexuan immediately opened it and read it. The content was actually "The Basic Program of the Chinese People's War Against Japan."
This "Program" reviewed the fall of Northeast China, emphasized that the Chinese nation had reached a critical moment of life and death, and that people across the country, regardless of class or nationality, should unite to resist Japanese aggression, and proposed China's detailed anti-Japanese program. It roughly proposed the following points:
First, mobilize all the navy, land and air force to fight against Japan; second, mobilize all the people; third, arm the entire people; fourth, immediately find ways to solve the anti-Japanese military expenditure; fifth, call on all people, overseas Chinese, and all those who sympathize with China
people to raise donations; sixth, unite all enemies of Japanese imperialism.
Some of the ideas are very correct, such as trying to solve the anti-Japanese military expenditure, uniting all enemies of Japan, etc. But some ideas are empty words, such as launching a general armed force of the entire people and requiring the Kuomintang to immediately open arsenals across the country and transfer all kinds of weapons to the country.
Distributing it to the People's Volunteer Army would obviously not be approved by the Nanjing government.
However, there are some contents that Zhou Hexuan particularly likes, that is, once war breaks out between China and Japan, all Japanese imperialist property in China will be immediately confiscated and the payment of principal and interest on all Japanese debts will be stopped. It even lists detailed data, showing that the total amount of Japanese investment in China has exceeded 40
Billions of silver dollars, the confiscated money was enough to support China's resistance to Japan for a period of time.
The last two sentences of this document are "Long live the sacred war of the Chinese nation against Japan" and "Long live the liberation of the greater Chinese nation". The signature is "Preparatory Meeting of the Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee", and the initiator is Mrs. Sun (leading).
In addition to the program for the war against Japan, the letter also invited Zhou Hexuan to go to Shanghai to participate in the preparation of the "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee" on behalf of the "China Branch of the International Anti-Fascist Alliance" and hoped that Zhou Hexuan could be included in the "Basic Program for the Chinese People's War against Japan"
Sign on.
Zhou Hexuan looked at the time when the war program against Japan was written, and it turned out to be April 20, 1934.
In other words, this thing was completed on the day of the "Second Tianyu Statement". It is possible that the Communist Party had already started writing the "First Tianyu Statement" as soon as it was released, and it only took less than a year from the start of writing to the completion of the draft
Three days.
The Communist Party is really fast, and its timing is so good!
Zhou Hexuan immediately signed the program of war against Japan, handed it to Cui Huifu and said: "Send it back to Shanghai immediately, and ask Yu Peichen to order me a ticket to Shanghai. I want to go there in person."
"Okay." Cui Huifu said.
The Communist Party has distributed the "Basic Program of the Chinese People's War Against Japan" to the whole country in the name of Mrs. Sun, and some people even secretly took it to the occupied areas of Northeast China.
In just a few days, as many as 1,780 people signed the program. In addition to Zhou Hexuan, those who signed in favor include He Xiangning, Hu Hanmin, Ma Xiangbo, Zhang Renzhuo, Li Da, Ye Xiasheng, Li Du, Yang Jingyu,
Weng Zhaoyuan and others, as well as many progressive people, big capitalists and overseas Chinese leaders.
Immediately, the Communist Party simply published this platform in newspapers and called on all the people to support it. More than 100,000 people successively signed and approved it.
Seeing the huge momentum, the Nationalist Government in Nanjing immediately panicked and strictly ordered major newspapers not to publish the "Agenda of Resistance Against Japan", but it was unable to stop Youyou from talking.
In early May, Zhou Hexuan went south to Shanghai to participate in the preparatory meeting of the "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee".
Also accompanying him was Yu Peichen. This eldest sister bought an extra train ticket on her own initiative, saying that she would personally assist Zhou Hexuan in his work at any time.
