Tip: In the context of the freedom of the press and the press flaunted in the United States, Cowles, like Pearson, just wants to make some money, but this way of earning money is really too difficult to deal with. Song Meiling chose to be silent in the face of the "gossip" compiled by Kauls, perhaps feeling that she was old and tired, and there was no need to deal with it and could not deal with it. Of course, it is very humiliating to be shot lying down, but in some cases, some countries cannot do it.
Lying down, he was also shot and said that he did nothing, did not provoke others, but was hit and hit by other people's verbal attacks. Although it is an Internet term that has only become popular in recent years, things like this have always existed in real life. Song Meiling, born in Shanghai in 1897, is an influential and well-known figure in modern and contemporary Chinese history. He devoted himself to Chinese the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, opposed national separatism, and hoped for the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the prosperity of the Chinese nation. He died in 2003 at his home in Manhattan, New York, AT the age of 106. I have also been shot lying down.
Chiang Kai-shek began to pursue Soong Mei-ling in 1922, in addition to soong Mei-ling's own beauty, there was also help for his future if he could marry Soong Mei-ling. However, Soong Mei-ling's mother was very opposed to this matter, because she first thought that Chiang Kai-shek was a soldier, and in traditional Chinese terms, a warrior, would be somewhat rude; secondly, Chiang Kai-shek had been married, and the reputation of marrying his daughter to a married person was somewhat unpleasant; and finally, she felt that her daughter was a Christian, and that Chiang Kai-shek and his daughter's beliefs were different, and it would be difficult for the two to come together.
In addition to Chiang Kai-shek's unremitting pursuit of Chiang Kai-shek in the past 5 years, there are two factors: First, in the process of pursuing Soong Mei-ling, Chiang Kai-shek's own status has also undergone great changes and has more capital to pursue Soong Mei-ling; second, Soong Mei-ling's eldest sister, Soong Mei-ling, not only does not oppose Soong Mei-ling marrying Chiang Kai-shek, but also often counts the various advantages of marrying Chiang Kai-shek in front of Soong Mei-ling. With the positive contribution of these two factors, Soong Mei-ling's mother finally put forward three conditions to Chiang Kai-shek, one of which was to let Chiang Kai-shek believe in Christianity, and Chiang Kai-shek did it correctly, so he married Soong Mei-ling on December 1, 1927.
The union of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling seems to many people today as a political marriage, but under the framework of this political marriage, although the two have had bumps and bumps, for example, in October 1940, Soong Mei-ling went to Hong Kong to recuperate, refused to return to Chongqing, etc., but through books such as "Chiang Kai-shek's Diary", the two actual feelings are not bad, and can even be said to be mutual love. However, it is such a couple that has been fabricated by the Americans to have a sexual encounter with Song Meiling, which has been rumored by some people who do not know the truth since the 1970s and 1980s.
The hero of the sexual encounter is Wendell Wilkie, born in 1892, a lawyer. In 1940, together with Roosevelt, he became the U.S. presidential candidate, grabbing the presidency. As a rival, Wilkie was very honest in his campaign, even outspokenly endorsing some of Roosevelt's reforms and foreign policies, which fueled Roosevelt's momentum and reduced his prestige, and eventually lost to Roosevelt. After Roosevelt became president, he felt that Wilke was not bad, and perhaps for the purpose of "repaying favors", he commissioned Wilke to be his unofficial representative and flew around the world.
From the end of September to the beginning of October 1942, when Wilkie visited China, Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling and his wife received and entertained the enthusiastic and fast-talking SPECIAL ENVOY of the US President in Chongqing, the "capital of the country". And the scandal between Soong Mei Ling and Wilkie also began with this incident - among Wilkie's entourage was an American named Mike Cowles, who worked as a journalist and also founded a magazine, and made up a very absurd and clumsy story of a sexual encounter for Song Meiling and Wilkie.
Michael Cowles said that Song Meiling's brother Song Ziwen's luxurious mansion in Chongqing was their "headquarters in Chongqing for six days." After several long talks with the chairman of the committee and the nightly banquet attended by the chairman and his wife, "Madame's manners and demeanor made both Wendell and I feel refreshed." Thus there is the experience of the host and guests "mingling together" at a "grand reception" one night.
"A Chinese aide-de-camp told me that Wilkie was looking for me. I found Wilkie, and he whispered to me that he and Madame would disappear in a few minutes, and that I would take his place and do my best to cover them. Of course, ten minutes later, they left... I stood next to the chairman as if I were standing guard. Whenever I felt his attention begin to wander, he immediately panicked and asked a series of questions about China. After an hour like this, he suddenly clapped his hands to summon the deputy and prepared to leave. I was then sent back to the Song family by my deputy. ”
After that, I had the experience of the chairman of the committee raising a gun to "catch the adulteress":
I didn't know where Wilkie and Madame had gone, and I was starting to worry. Shortly after dinner, there was a loud noise in the atrium, and the chairman of the committee rushed in with rage. The three bodyguards accompanying him, each carrying an automatic rifle. The chairman suppressed his anger and bowed indifferently to me, and I saluted in return.
"Where is Wilkie?" He asked after the ceremony was over.
"I don't know, he's not home."
"Where is Wilkie?" He asked again.
"I assure you, Chairman. He's not here, and I don't know where he might be. ”
I followed the guards, and the chairman of the committee went through the house. He inspected every room, probed under the bed, and opened the cupboards all over the place. Finally, after he was satisfied that the two men were not in the house, he left without a single word of farewell.
Michael Cowles had given full play to his imagination at this point—he was frightened, even hallucinating—and he saw Wilkie standing in front of the muzzle of a pitch-black gun raised by a row of shooters, gunshots rang out and were beaten into a sieve. He was really scared, so scared that he couldn't sleep, so he got up, and drank again, drinking and waiting for the worst to happen. However, all of his manifestations are nothing more than unfounded superfluousness—
At four o'clock in the morning, a cheerful Wilkie appeared, "proud to be a college student after a good night with his girlfriend." And in "the scene after the scene after the incident between the wife and the wife", he happily said that he had invited the wife to return to Washington with him. Hearing this, Michael Cowles said angrily, "Wendell, you're a goddamn big idiot!" ”
Why is it a big idiot? Michael Cowles said —
I cite all the reasons against his crazy idea. I totally agree that Mrs. Jiang is one of the most beautiful, intelligent and sexy women we have ever met. I also understand their huge attraction to each other, but there is enough gossip about them in Chongqing's newspaper circles.
I said, "You represent the president of the United States here; you still want to run for the next president!" ”
I also indicated that his wife and son might pick him up at the airport at that time, and that his presence would cause rather embarrassing scenes. Wilkie stomped away in anger. I was so tired that I fell back to sleep.
It was over, but Michael Cowles didn't let it end, and perhaps as a journalist, he felt that if it ended, he was a little too sorry for his talent and readers. To this end, he said, the next morning, he had breakfast with Wendell Wilkie, and Wendell Wilkie suddenly became "rational" and asked him to relay to Song Meiling on his behalf: "Tell her that she can't go back to Washington with us." ”
Where to tell? Wendell Wilkie became "shy" again, telling Michael Cowles that it was on the top floor of the downtown women's and children's hospital that Soong Mei Ling had an apartment that Song Mei Ling was proud of, and that place was the place where Wendell Wilkie and Song Mei Ling spent the night together that had not been found by the chairman of the committee. Michael Cowles said —
About eleven o'clock. I went to the hospital and asked to see Madame. When I was introduced into her living room, I told her foolishly that she could not go back to Washington with Mr. Wilkie.
"Who says you can't?" she asked.
"It's me," I said, "and I told Wilkie not to go with you, because politically it would be very unwise." ”
Before I could figure out what was going on, her long fingernails were already scratching hard at my cheek. She was so hard that she left a scar on my face for a whole week.
"A week's scar" was very long, so long that in 1985, Mike Cowles wrote a book, "Myco Review", which wrote the above into the book, and wrote about the "affair" that Wilkie had with Song Meiling when he asked Chongqing. At this time, it had been more than forty years since Wendell Wilkie died of a heart attack in 1944, but Song Meiling was still alive, although she was an 88-year-old man, she was still a very well-known person, and writers and journalists could still find many "selling points" from her experience. One step ahead of Michael Cowles was another American, Pearson.
Pearson was an American columnist who was very fond of digging into other people's privacy and was once denounced by Roosevelt as a "habitual rumor-monger." But it was such a person who was very marketable in the United States at that time, and in its heyday, more than 800 newspapers in the United States opened columns for him, in addition to hosting a 15-minute talk show on the National Radio Network every week. As early as 1974, Pearson's son Albert collated and published Pearson's diary, writing a passage similar to the above into the Pearson Diary, and has a richer plot than the above, such as Wilke's resignation to Song Meiling when he was leaving, the two stayed together behind closed doors for twenty minutes, and Wilki came out, and so on.
After the publication of "Pearson's Diary", it attracted great attention in the United States in the commercial society, and in order to turn Song Meiling into a "selling point", bookstores in the United States even printed juxtaposed photos of Wilke and Song Meiling on the poster recommending the book, accompanied by a picture description of "hasty combination", so that the book was sold well in the United States. It was also at this time that a good old American lady sent Pearson's diary to Song Meiling in Taiwan.
Lu Yizheng, a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1924 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. In 1947, Lu Yizheng graduated from the first phase of the Department of Foreign Affairs of national chengchi University in Nanjing, and later received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as an interpreter for the US military in Yunnan. In 1974, he was a Taiwanese clerk in the United States and personally participated in the handling of the matter.
Lu Yizheng later recalled that after Song Meiling received the "Pearson Diary", she was furious when she saw the erotic content about her, so he immediately returned to Taiwan, "telling me to hurry back and publish a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other top ten newspapers, denying this incident, saying that she Song Meiling did not steal." But Song Meiling did not expect that doing so would be counterproductive, "according to her doing is equivalent to advertising for this book, helping him sell more than 100,000 copies, and then becoming the laughing stock of the world, according to her (Song Meiling) doing is equivalent to advertising for this book ("Pearson's Diary"), helping him (Pearson) sell more than 100,000 copies, and becoming the laughing stock of the whole world."
After that, Song Meiling thought of fighting a lawsuit and wrote a power of attorney to Lu Yizheng, asking Lu Yizheng to file a lawsuit on his behalf. However, Lu Yizheng was not in a hurry to do this, and there was an important reason at the time, "The original publication of the diary was a medium-sized publishing company, which was later acquired by CBS (CBS), which was very popular and completely liberal. I found a lawyer to make representations, touched a nose of ash and came back, who dares to fight with CBS? In the end, Lu Yizheng found one of the best lawyers in New York named Aberlon, and in this way learned about the lawsuit that Song Meiling was going to fight.
We handed the form in for about a year and a half, and the lawyers on both sides fought back and forth, and finally reconciled. But there are three conditions for reconciliation: First, the other party publicly apologizes; Second, undertake to delete these words when reprinting; Third, the lawyers of both sides bear the legal fees, but more than 700 US dollars such as litigation costs, service fees, and depository letter fees are borne by CBS, which is more symbolic compensation. CBS and the publishing company learned this lesson, not only was the first volume of the diary never reprinted, but the middle and lower volumes were stillborn.
Lu Yizheng also recalled that in order to find witnesses, he made a lot of efforts, and he first found the two entourage who followed Wilkie, but they were gone and died. However, he later found Michael Cowles through the local newspaper, "the person who later founded LOOK." Lu Yizheng said————
When I went to see Cowles, he didn't expect that 30 years later, some people remember that he had been to Chongqing during the war, so he was very happy. I asked him if the story in Pearson's Diaries was correct, and he laughed and said, "No way, absolutely not!" "I asked him to write a letter, in my capacity as a journalist accompanying Wilkie on his visit to China, to explain that there was absolutely no such thing, and he happily agreed to do so.
This should be over, right? Cowles gave Song Meiling a lawsuit to testify, Song Meiling received $700 in compensation, it should be said that it is very satisfactory, but what Song Meiling did not expect is that it was this Cowles who wrote her "sexual encounter" in his book "Mike Review" 11 years later as a witness, and there was the paragraph we described at the beginning of the article. Cowles found a selling point for his book by referring to Song Meiling's "sexual encounters", but the nearly 90-year-old man was not as angry as he was with Pearson's Diary in 1974, but chose silence.
Yang Tianshi graduated from the Department of Chinese of Peking University in 1960. He is currently a member of the Honorary Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a librarian of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, and a member of the editorial board of Chinese Social Sciences and Chinese Philosophy, the editor-in-chief of Centennial Tide magazine, an advisor to Century Magazine, a special editorial board member of Yanhuang Chunqiu, and a member of the Expert Committee of the Social Science Literature Publishing House. He has long studied the history of Chinese culture and modern Chinese history, especially the history of the Republic of China, the history of the Chinese Kuomintang and Chiang Kai-shek. He is the author of more than 20 kinds of books, such as "Searching for the Real Chiang Kai-shek - Interpretation of Chiang Kai-shek's Diary" and "Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Files and the Truth about Chiang Kai-shek".
In order to expose the absurdity of the "scandal" compiled by Kauls with conclusive evidence, Professor Yang, based on the reports and relevant archives of the Chongqing Ta Kung Pao at that time, as well as the arrangement of Wilkey and Kauls's activities in Chongqing, found that during The entire period of Wilkee's visit to Chongqing, the welcome banquet hosted by Chiang Kai-shek and attended by Soong Mei-ling was only once on the evening of October 3. And this time the banquet Wilke and Song Meiling were always present, "at half past ten, the night party was full of joy and dispersed." There was no chance of "slipping out" at all.
In the context of the freedom of the press and the press flaunted in the United States, Cowles, like Pearson, just wants to make some money, but this way of earning money is too difficult to deal with. Song Meiling chose to be silent in the face of the "gossip" compiled by Kauls, perhaps feeling that she was old and tired, and there was no need to deal with it and could not deal with it. Of course, it is very humiliating to be shot lying down, but in some cases, some countries cannot do it.
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