第一篇：名人演講：國會珍珠港演說

美國第32任總統富蘭克林·d·羅斯福(franklin

d.roosevelt)(1933—1945)，一直被視為美國歷史上最偉大的總統之一，是20世紀美國最孚眾望和受愛戴的總統，也是美國歷史上惟一連任4屆總統的人，從1933年3月起，直到1945年4月去世時為止，任職長達12年。曾贏得美國民眾長達7周的高支持率，創下歷史記錄。

yesterday,december

7th,1941

--

a

date

which

will

live

in

infamy

--

the

united

states

of

america

was

suddenly

and

deliberately

attacked

by

naval

and

air

forces

of

the

empire

of

japan.yesterday,the

japanese

government

also

launched

an

attack

against

malaya.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

hong

kong.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

guam.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

the

philippine

islands.last

night,the

japanese

attacked

wake

island.and

this

morning,the

japanese

attacked

midway

island.昨天日本政府也發動了對馬來地區的進攻。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻了香港。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻關島。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻菲律賓群島。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻威克島。

今晨日本軍隊進攻了中途島。

演講全文：pearl

harbor

address

to

the

nation

mr.vice

president,mr.speaker,members

of

the

senate,and

of

the

house

of

representatives:

yesterday,december

7th,1941

--

a

date

which

will

live

in

infamy

--

the

united

states

of

america

was

suddenly

and

deliberately

attacked

by

naval

and

air

forces

of

the

empire

of

japan.the

united

states

was

at

peace

with

that

nation

and,at

the

solicitation

of

japan,was

still

in

conversation

with

its

government

and

its

emperor

looking

toward

the

maintenance

of

peace

in

the

pacific.indeed,one

hour

after

japanese

air

squadrons

had

commenced

bombing

in

the

american

island

of

oahu,the

japanese

ambassador

to

the

united

states

and

his

colleague

delivered

to

our

secretary

of

state

a

formal

reply

to

a

recent

american

message.and

while

this

reply

stated

that

it

seemed

useless

to

continue

the

existing

diplomatic

negotiations,it

contained

no

threat

or

hint

of

war

or

of

armed

attack.it

will

be

recorded

that

the

distance

of

hawaii

from

japan

makes

it

obvious

that

the

attack

was

deliberately

planned

many

days

or

even

weeks

ago.during

the

intervening

time,the

japanese

government

has

deliberately

sought

to

deceive

the

united

states

by

false

statements

and

expressions

of

hope

for

continued

peace.the

attack

yesterday

on

the

hawaiian

islands

has

caused

severe

damage

to

american

naval

and

military

forces.i

regret

to

tell

you

that

very

many

american

lives

have

been

lost.in

addition,american

ships

have

been

reported

torpedoed

on

the

high

seas

between

san

francisco

and

honolulu.yesterday,the

japanese

government

also

launched

an

attack

against

malaya.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

hong

kong.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

guam.last

night,japanese

forces

attacked

the

philippine

islands.last

night,the

japanese

attacked

wake

island.and

this

morning,the

japanese

attacked

midway

island.japan

has,therefore,undertaken

a

surprise

offensive

extending

throughout

the

pacific

area.the

facts

of

yesterday

and

today

speak

for

themselves.the

people

of

the

united

states

have

already

formed

their

opinions

and

well

understand

the

implications

to

the

very

life

and

safety

of

our

nation.as

commander

in

chief

of

the

army

and

navy,i

have

directed

that

all

measures

be

taken

for

our

defense.but

always

will

our

whole

nation

remember

the

character

of

the

onslaught

against

us.no

matter

how

long

it

may

take

us

to

overcome

this

premeditated

invasion,the

american

people

in

their

righteous

might

will

win

through

to

absolute

victory.i

believe

that

i

interpret

the

will

of

the

congress

and

of

the

people

when

i

assert

that

we

will

not

only

defend

ourselves

to

the

uttermost,but

will

make

it

very

certain

that

this

form

of

treachery

shall

never

again

endanger

us.hostilities

exist.there

is

no

blinking

at

the

fact

that

our

people,our

territory,and

our

interests

are

in

grave

danger.with

confidence

in

our

armed

forces,with

the

unbounding

determination

of

our

people,we

will

gain

the

inevitable

triumph

--

so

help

us

god.i

ask

that

the

congress

declare

that

since

the

unprovoked

and

dastardly

attack

by

japan

on

sunday,december

7th,1941,a

state

of

war

has

existed

between

the

united

states

and

the

japanese

empire.

第二篇：名人演講：國會珍珠港演說

美國第32任總統富蘭克林·D·羅斯福(Franklin D.Roosevelt)(1933—1945)，一直被視為美國歷史上最偉大的總統之一，是20世紀美國最孚眾望和受愛戴的總統，也是美國歷史上惟一連任4屆總統的人，從1933年3月起，直到1945年4月去世時為止，任職長達12年。曾贏得美國民眾長達7周的高支持率，創下歷史記錄。

富蘭克林·德拉諾·羅斯福出生于紐約。父親詹姆斯·羅斯福是一個百萬富翁。母親薩拉·德拉諾比父親小26歲。羅斯福曾就讀于哈佛大學和哥倫比亞大學。1910年任紐約州參議員。1913年任海軍部副部長。1921年因患脊髓灰質炎致殘。1928年任紐約州長。1932年競選總統獲勝。執政后，以“新政”對付經濟危機，頗有成效，故獲得1936年、1940年、1944年大選連任。第二次世界大戰初，美國采取不介入政策，但對希特勒采取強硬手段，以“租借法”支持同盟國。1941年底，美國參戰。羅斯福代表美國兩次參加同盟國“三巨頭”會議。羅斯福政府提出了軸心國必須無條件投降的原則并得到了實施。羅斯福提出了建立聯合國的構想，也得到了實施。63歲時由于腦溢血去世。

很多網友相信都看過電影《珍珠港》(pearl Harbor)，第二次世界大戰在歐亞大陸打的如火如荼，而跨海相隔的美國卻隔岸觀火，仿佛事不關己。直到1941年12月7日早晨7點53分，日本突襲美軍在夏威夷的基地珍珠港。次日，美國總統羅斯福在國會憤然發表了這篇的演說，至此，太平洋戰爭全面爆發。

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.昨天，1941年12月7日──它將永遠成為國恥日──美利堅合眾國遭到了日本帝國海空軍預謀的突然襲擊。

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.Last night, Japanese forces attacked the philippine Islands.Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.昨天日本政府也發動了對馬來地區的進攻。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻了香港。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻關島。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻菲律賓群島。

昨夜日本軍隊進攻威克島。

今晨日本軍隊進攻了中途島。

演講全文：pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

Mr.Vice president, Mr.Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the pacific.Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces.I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.Last night, Japanese forces attacked the philippine Islands.Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the pacific area.The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves.The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.Hostilities exist.There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph--so help us God.I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

第三篇：羅斯福國會珍珠港演說

Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation

By President Franklin D.Roosevelt

——羅斯福國會珍珠港演說

Mr.Vice President, Mr.Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:

致美國國會：

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.昨天，1941年12月7日——一個遺臭萬年的日子——美利堅合眾國遭到了日本帝國海軍和空軍蓄謀已久的突然襲擊。

The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.合眾國當時同該國處于和平狀態，而且，根據日本的請求，當時仍在同該國政府和該國天皇進行著對話，希望維持太平洋地區的和平，實際上，就在日本空軍中隊已經開始轟炸美國瓦胡島之后一小時，日本駐合眾國大使及其同事還向國務卿提交了對美國最近致日方的信函的正式答復。雖然復函聲言繼續現行外交談判已毫無用處，它并未包含有關戰爭或武裝進攻的威脅或暗示。

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.應該記錄在案的是：考慮到夏威夷同日本的距離，這次進攻顯然是許多天乃至若干星期以前就已蓄謀策劃的。在策劃的過程中，日本政府通過虛偽的聲明和表示希望維護和平處心積慮地欺騙合眾國。

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces.I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.昨天對夏威夷群島的進攻，給美國海陸軍部隊造成了嚴重的損傷。我遺憾地告訴各位，很多美國人喪失了生命。此外，據報告，美國商船在舊金山和火奴魯魯之間的公海上也遭到了魚雷襲擊。

Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.昨天，日本政府已發動了對馬來亞的進攻。

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.昨夜，日本軍隊襲擊了香港。

Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.昨夜，日本軍隊攻擊了關島。

Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.昨夜，日本軍隊攻擊了菲律賓群島。

Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.昨夜，日本人襲擊了威克島。

And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.今晨，日本人襲擊了中途島。

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area.The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves.The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.因此，日本在整個太平洋區域發動了突然攻勢。發生在昨天和今天的事證明了這一點。美國人民非常明白，并且十分清楚這關系到我們國家的安全和生存的嚴重事態

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.作為三軍總司令，我已下令，采取一切措施保衛我們的國家。

But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.我們整個國家都將永遠記住這次對我們的無恥進攻。

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.不論要用多長的時間才能戰勝這次蓄謀已久的入侵，美國人民以自己的正義力量一定要贏得絕對的勝利。

I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.我現在斷言，我們不僅要做出最大的努力來保衛我們自己，我們還將確保這種形式的背信棄義永遠不會再危及我們。我相信表達了國會和人民的意志。

Hostilities exist.There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.戰爭已經開始。我國人民，我國領土和我國利益都處于嚴重危險之中，對此我們不必閃爍其辭。

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph--so help us God.信賴我們的武裝部隊——依靠我國人民的堅定決心——我們必將取得最后的勝利——愿上帝助我!

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.我要求國會宣布：自1941年12月7日——星期日日本進行無緣無故和卑鄙怯懦的進攻時起，合眾國和日本帝國之間已處于戰爭狀態。

第四篇：名人演講：國會大廈告別演講

道格拉斯·麥克阿瑟(Douglas MacArthur)，美國陸軍五星上將。出生于阿肯色州小石城的軍人世家。1899年中學畢業后考入西點軍校，1903年以名列第一的優異成績畢業，到工程兵部隊任職，并赴菲律賓執勤。麥克阿瑟有過50年的軍事實踐經驗，被美國國民稱之為“一代老兵”，而其自身的又曾是“美國最年輕的準將、西點軍校最年輕的校長、美國陸軍歷史上最年輕的陸軍參謀長”，憑借精妙的軍事謀略和敢戰敢勝的膽略，麥克阿瑟堪稱美國戰爭史上的奇才。

提起這句話：“老兵永遠不死，只會慢慢凋零”（Old soldiers never die, they just fade away），就不由得想起那個叼著玉米棒子煙斗的麥克阿瑟，和他在1951年4月19日被解職后在國會大廈發表的題為《老兵不死》著名演講。

我即將結束五十二年的軍旅生涯。我從軍是在本世紀開始之前，而這是我童年的希望與夢想的實現。自從我在西點軍校的教練場上宣誓以來，這個世界已經過多次變化，而我的希望與夢想早已消逝，但我仍記著當時最流行的一首軍歌詞，極為自豪地宣示“老兵永遠不死，只會慢慢凋零”。

I am closing my 52 years of military service.When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams.The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die;they just fade away.”

就像這首歌中的老兵，一位想盡一已之責的老兵，而上帝也賜予光輝使他能看清這一項責任，而我現在結束了軍旅生涯，而逐漸凋謝。

And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.演講全文：MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress

Mr.president, Mr.Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride--humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me;pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race.I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fundamental and reach quite beyond the realm of partisan consideration.They must be resolved on the highest plane of national interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected.I trust, therefore, that you will do me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint of a fellow American.I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.While Asia is commonly referred to as the Gateway to Europe, it is no less true that Europe is the Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.There are those who claim our strength is inadequate to protect on both fronts, that we cannot divide our effort.I can think of no greater expression of defeatism.If a potential enemy can divide his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort.The Communist threat is a global one.Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector.You can not appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our efforts to halt its advance in Europe.Beyond pointing out these general truisms, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of Asia.Before one may objectively assess the situation now existing there, he must comprehend something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the present.Long exploited by the so-called colonial powers, with little opportunity to achieve any degree of social justice, individual dignity, or a higher standard of life such as guided our own noble administration in the philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just past to throw off the shackles of colonialism and now see the dawn of new opportunity, a heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self-respect of political freedom.Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments.Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress and it may not be stopped.It is a corollary to the shift of the world economic frontiers as the whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny.What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support--not imperious direction--the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.Their pre-war standard of life, pitifully low, is infinitely lower now in the devastation left in war's wake.World ideologies play little part in Asian thinking and are little understood.What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom.These political-social conditions have but an indirect bearing upon our own national security, but do form a backdrop to contemporary planning which must be thoughtfully considered if we are to avoid the pitfalls of unrealism.Of more direct and immediately bearing upon our national security are the changes wrought in the strategic potential of the pacific Ocean in the course of the past war.prior thereto the western strategic frontier of the United States lay on the literal line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway, and Guam to the philippines.That salient proved not an outpost of strength but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack.The pacific was a potential area of advance for any predatory force intent upon striking at the bordering land areas.All this was changed by our pacific victory.Our strategic frontier then shifted to embrace the entire pacific Ocean, which became a vast moat to protect us as long as we held it.Indeed, it acts as a protective shield for all of the Americas and all free lands of the pacific Ocean area.We control it to the shores of Asia by a chain of islands extending in an arc from the Aleutians to the Mariannas held by us and our free allies.From this island chain we can dominate with sea and air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singapore--with sea and air power every port, as I said, from Vladivostok to Singapore--and prevent any hostile movement into the pacific.Any predatory attack from Asia must be an amphibious effort.* No amphibious force can be successful without control of the sea lanes and the air over those lanes in its avenue of advance.With naval and air supremacy and modest ground elements to defend bases, any major attack from continental Asia toward us or our friends in the pacific would be doomed to failure.Under such conditions, the pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader.It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake.Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.It envisions no attack against anyone, nor does it provide the bastions essential for offensive operations, but properly maintained, would be an invincible defense against aggression.The holding of this literal defense line in the western pacific is entirely dependent upon holding all segments thereof;for any major breach of that line by an unfriendly power would render vulnerable to determined attack every other major segment.This is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take exception.For that reason, I have strongly recommended in the past, as a matter of military urgency, that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist control.Such an eventuality would at once threaten the freedom of the philippines and the loss of Japan and might well force our western frontier back to the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.To understand the changes which now appear upon the Chinese mainland, one must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture over the past 50 years.China, up to 50 years ago, was completely non-homogenous, being compartmented into groups divided against each other.The war-making tendency was almost non-existent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture.At the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a nationalist urge.This was further and more successfully developed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek, but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized in their concepts and in their ideals.They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders.This has produced a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power normal to this type of imperialism.There is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese make-up.The standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of local stringencies.I have from the beginning believed that the Chinese Communists' support of the North Koreans was the dominant one.Their interests are, at present, parallel with those of the Soviet.But I believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in Korea but also in Indo-China and Tibet and pointing potentially toward the South reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every would-be conqueror since the beginning of time.The Japanese people, since the war, have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history.With a commendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have, from the ashes left in war's wake, erected in Japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of individual liberty and personal dignity;and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government committed to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.politically, economically, and socially Japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and will not again fail the universal trust.That it may be counted upon to wield a profoundly beneficial influence over the course of events in Asia is attested by the magnificent manner in which the Japanese people have met the recent challenge of war, unrest, and confusion surrounding them from the outside and checked communism within their own frontiers without the slightest slackening in their forward progress.I sent all four of our occupation divisions to the Korean battlefront without the slightest qualms as to the effect of the resulting power vacuum upon Japan.The results fully justified my faith.I know of no nation more serene, orderly, and industrious, nor in which higher hopes can be entertained for future constructive service in the advance of the human race.Of our former ward, the philippines, we can look forward in confidence that the existing unrest will be corrected and a strong and healthy nation will grow in the longer aftermath of war's terrible destructiveness.We must be patient and understanding and never fail them--as in our hour of need, they did not fail us.A Christian nation, the philippines stand as a mighty bulwark of Christianity in the Far East, and its capacity for high moral leadership in Asia is unlimited.On Formosa, the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength of its leadership on the Chinese mainland.The Formosan people are receiving a just and enlightened administration with majority representation on the organs of government, and politically, economically, and socially they appear to be advancing along sound and constructive lines.With this brief insight into the surrounding areas, I now turn to the Korean conflict.While I was not consulted prior to the president's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces.Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.This created a new war and an entirely new situation, a situation not contemplated when our forces were committed against the North Korean invaders;a situation which called for new decisions in the diplomatic sphere to permit the realistic adjustment of military strategy.Such decisions have not been forthcoming.While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.Apart from the military need, as I saw It, to neutralize the sanctuary protection given the enemy north of the Yalu, I felt that military necessity in the conduct of the war made necessary: first the intensification of our economic blockade against China;two the imposition of a naval blockade against the China coast;three removal of restrictions on air reconnaissance of China's coastal areas and of Manchuria;four removal of restrictions on the forces of the Republic of China on Formosa, with logistical support to contribute to their effective operations against the common enemy.For entertaining these views, all professionally designed to support our forces committed to Korea and bring hostilities to an end with the least possible delay and at a saving of countless American and allied lives, I have been severely criticized in lay circles, principally abroad, despite my understanding that from a military standpoint the above views have been fully shared in the past by practically every military leader concerned with the Korean campaign, including our own Joint Chiefs of Staff.I called for reinforcements but was informed that reinforcements were not available.I made clear that if not permitted to destroy the enemy built-up bases north of the Yalu, if not permitted to utilize the friendly Chinese Force of some 600,000 men on Formosa, if not permitted to blockade the China coast to prevent the Chinese Reds from getting succor from without, and if there were to be no hope of major reinforcements, the position of the command from the military standpoint forbade victory.We could hold in Korea by constant maneuver and in an approximate area where our supply line advantages were in balance with the supply line disadvantages of the enemy, but we could hope at best for only an indecisive campaign with its terrible and constant attrition upon our forces if the enemy utilized its full military potential.I have constantly called for the new political decisions essential to a solution.Efforts have been made to distort my position.It has been said, in effect, that I was a warmonger.Nothing could be further from the truth.I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting.I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.Indeed, on the second day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-five, just following the surrender of the Japanese nation on the Battleship Missouri, I formally cautioned as follows:

“Men since the beginning of time have

sought peace.Various methods through the

ages have been attempted to devise an

international process to prevent or settle

disputes between nations.From the very

start workable methods were found in so

far as individual citizens were concerned,but the mechanics of an instrumentality of

larger international scope have never

been successful.Military alliances,balances of power, Leagues of Nations,all in turn failed, leaving the only path to

be by way of the crucible of war.The

utter destructiveness of war now blocks

out this alternative.We have had our last

chance.If we will not devise some

greater and more equitable system,Armageddon will be at our door.The

problem basically is theological and

involves a spiritual recrudescence and

improvement of human character that will

synchronize with our almost matchless

advances in science, art, literature, and all

material and cultural developments of

the past 2000 years.It must be of the spirit

if we are to save the flesh.”

But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision.In war there is no substitute for victory.There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China.They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war.It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace.Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.“Why,” my soldiers asked of me, “surrender military advantages to an enemy in the field?” I could not answer.Some may say: to avoid spread of the conflict into an all-out war with China;others, to avoid Soviet intervention.Neither explanation seems valid, for China is already engaging with the maximum power it can commit, and the Soviet will not necessarily mesh its actions with our moves.Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike whenever it feels that the relativity in military or other potential is in its favor on a world-wide basis.The tragedy of Korea is further heightened by the fact that its military action is confined to its territorial limits.It condemns that nation, which it is our purpose to save, to suffer the devastating impact of full naval and air bombardment while the enemy's sanctuaries are fully protected from such attack and devastation.Of the nations of the world, Korea alone, up to now, is the sole one which has risked its all against communism.The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.They have chosen to risk death rather than slavery.Their last words to me were: “Don't scuttle the pacific!”

I have just left your fighting sons in Korea.They have met all tests there, and I can report to you without reservation that they are splendid in every way.It was my constant effort to preserve them and end this savage conflict honorably and with the least loss of time and a minimum sacrifice of life.Its growing bloodshed has caused me the deepest anguish and anxiety.Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always.I am closing my 52 years of military service.When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams.The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that “old soldiers never die;they just fade away.”

And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.Good Bye.

第五篇：羅斯福總統的國會珍珠港演說中英文對照版（最終版）

Pearl Harbor address to the nation

（國會珍珠港演說）

Mr.Vice President, Mr.Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu,the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message.And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.During the intervening time, the

Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces.I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.In addition,American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam.Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.And this morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island.Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area.The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves.The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.Hostilities exist.There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph--so help us God.I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.副總統先生、議長先生、參眾兩院各位議員：

昨天，１９４１年１２月７日，我們必須永遠記住這個恥辱的日子，在這一天美利堅合眾國受到了日本帝國海空軍突如其來的蓄意攻擊。

美國和日本是和平相處的，根據日本的請求仍在同它的政府和天皇進行會談，以期待維護太平洋地區的和平。

實際上，就在日本空軍部隊已經著手開始轟炸美國瓦湖島之后的一小時，日本駐美國大使和同僚還向我們的國務卿提交了對美國最近致日方消息的正式答復。雖然復函聲稱繼續現行外交談判似已無用，但卻并未包含有關戰爭或武裝攻擊的威脅或暗示。

歷史將會作證，由于夏威夷距離日本的距離如此之遠，顯然表明這次進攻是經過許多天甚至許多個星期精心策劃的。在調停期間，日本政府蓄意以虛偽的聲明和表示繼續維持和平的愿望來欺騙美國。

昨天對夏威夷群島的攻擊給美國海陸軍部隊造成了嚴重的損害。我遺憾地告訴各位，許多美國人喪失了生命，此外，根據報告，美國船只在舊金山和火奴魯魯之間的公海上也遭到了魚雷襲擊。

昨天，日本政府已發動了對馬來亞的進攻。

昨晚，日本軍隊進攻了香港。

昨晚，日本軍隊進攻了關島。

昨晚，日本軍隊進攻了菲律賓群島。

昨晚，日本人進攻了威克島。

今晨，日本人進攻了中途島。

因此，日本在整個太平洋區域采取了突然攻勢。昨天和今天的事實不言自明。美國的人民已經形成了自己的見解，并且非常清楚這關系到我們國家的安全和生存本身。

作為陸、海軍總司令，我已指示，為了我們的防務采取一切措施。但是，我們整個國家將永遠記住這次對我們突襲的性質。

不論要用多長時間才能戰勝這次有預謀的入侵，美國人民將一定要以自己的正義力量贏得絕對的勝利。

我們現在預言，我們不僅要做出最大的努力來保衛我們自己，我們還將確保這種背信棄義的形式永遠不會再次危及到我們。我這樣說，相信是表達了國會和人民的意志。

敵對行動已經存在。無庸贅言，我國人民、我國領土和我國利益都處于嚴重危險之中。

相信我們的武裝部隊——依靠我國人民的堅定決心——我們將取得必然的勝利——愿上帝幫助我們！

我要求國會宣布：自１９４１年１２月７日星期日，日本發動無端的、卑鄙的進攻時起，美國和日本帝國之間已處于戰爭狀態。

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美國第32任總統富蘭克林·D·羅斯福(Franklin D.Roosevelt)(1933—1945)，從1933年3月起，直到1945年4月去世時為止，任職長達12年。曾贏得美國民眾長達7周的高支持率，創下歷史記錄。

1941年12月7日早晨7點53分，日本突襲美軍在夏威夷的基地珍珠港。次日，美國總統羅斯福在國會憤然發表了這篇的演說，至此，太平洋戰爭全面爆發。