Chapter 29 Scene 27 Trial of Wilson

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, knocks the gavel) Now announce the opening of the 27th Court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).Biography of the defendant Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States. (Wilson stands up.) God Lee: You are Wilson. You were born in 1856. You have three daughters and two wives. Wilson: Yes.Two wives before and after, not two wives at the same time. God Lee: Nine months after your first wife died, you proposed to the widow of Norman Galt (Norman Galt). American women think you are too fickle. What do you think of American women?

Wilson: I think they're making too much of a fuss. God Lee: You can't blame them all. At that time, the "Washington Post" printed you as "entering" Mrs. Galt. What do you think of the absurdity of the American press? Wilson: This is the absurdity of English. God Lee: You are the only president of the United States who has received a Ph.D. Are you very particular about English usage? Wilson: Quite elegant. God Lee: Do you pay attention to the usage of the word peace (peace)? Wilson: (nods his head) I am particular. God Lee: You won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, didn't you?

Wilson: Yes. God Lee: The Nobel Peace Prize was given to you, don't you think it's not too elegant? God Li: Don't pay attention to what?We defeated Germany and promoted world peace. God Lee: Won Germany or angered Germany?In Versailles you blamed the war on Germany, stripped Germany of all its colonies, the coalfields of the Saar basin and the provinces of Alsace/Lorraine to France, Sudetenland to the Czech Republic, Eupen/Marle Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Posen and West Prussia, together with the Polish Corridor, to Poland, northern Schleswig to Denmark, west of the Rhine to disarm, Germany to be almost completely disarmed; and to pay compensation All the losses in the war, your insistence on going your own way, and the troubles were not discussed by everyone at all, but designated by yourself. You overwhelmed Germany, planted the seeds of war that Germany hates you, and gave birth to Hitler. What a good one Promote world peace!

Wilson: It's not all my fault. God Lee: Don't forget that you are the one who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Wilson: Oh. God Li: Also, what about Shandong in China?The German colony in Shandong was transferred from Germany to Japan. What kind of peace is this?China is also a victorious country, where is your justice?Where are your Fourteen Points?In the Paris peace conference, you completely abandoned your own justice, and actually advocated that the United States agree with China’s position in principle, but must make limited concessions to Japan. You guaranteed that Japan would return Shandong to China, but you wanted to retain the defeated country Germany All vested interests in Shandong, China.Which country's justice is this?

Wilson: China finally refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. God Li: Of course I refuse. China is one of the victorious countries, but it did not sign the Treaty of Versailles. It is like the United States, one of the founders of the League of Nations, but you did not join the League of Nations.Why not join? Wilson: Because it violates my 14 points. God Lee: French Tiger Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau said he was tired of your 14 points, saying that God's "Ten Commandments" are only 10 points. Wilson: That's because he has no idealism. God Lee: Do you have any?Do you yourself abide by your 14 points?How many American progressives scolded you for not implementing your 14 points; how many German-Italian Americans scolded you for being too harsh on Germany and Italy; how many Irish-Americans scolded you for not letting Ireland Get rid of British colonial rule.What's more serious is that your handling of the Shandong issue in China has completely violated points 1 and 5 of your 14 points.To be correct, your 14 points is 1 point less than China, which should be 15 points, isn't it?

Wilson: I delivered speeches on September 6 and 20, 1919, saying: "I don't like the Shandong Agreement as much as you do, but the circumstances are such that there is no other way. In order to return Shandong to China, you plan to Do you want to fight Japan, France, and Britain?" I said again: "Britain refuses to return Weihaiwei, France refuses to return the land it occupies, and Japan only occupies the economic ceded rights in Shandong, so what's the matter?" No? In order to return Shandong to China, are you going to fight against Britain, France, and Japan (they must stand together)?" But everyone refused to listen to my explanation, and insisted that I violated the interests of the United States and recognized Japan. The "Asian Monroe Doctrine".

God Lee: Isn't that true?Did everyone misunderstand you?You sing the high note, and you don't obey it.What's more, you did this as early as two years ago in 1919. Your Secretary of State and Japan engaged in seven twists and turns. From September 6 to November 2, 1917, 13 secret meetings were held to come up with an agreement. All the details were revealed in the memoirs of your Secretary of State Robert Lansing 11 years after your death. The memoirs were published in 1935. Although Lansing also died, you revealed to us that the United States has long promised Japan There are "special interests" in China. You have sold China out long ago. It is not your turn to fight Japan, Britain, and France. Your speeches are all nonsense.

Wilson: Oh, Lansing likes to act in his own name, when I had a stroke, he called a cabinet meeting in his own name, I didn't know, then I had enough of him, by Bainbridge Colby ) to succeed him.And I told God Lee that Lansing was a hypocrite.After we made concessions on the Shandong issue, Lansing actually said: "Giving Jiaozhou Bay to Japan is a betrayal of a great principle." At that time, Colonel Edward M. House was so angry that he replied: "We used to I did the same.” It turned out that the agreement Lansing signed with the Japanese had already set an example for us to betray the principle.

God Lee: Lansing is shameful, but don't let it be.You've been doing this before Lansing was Secretary of State. On March 13, 1915, you personally revised the note from Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, which stated in black and white: The United States has no objection to Japan’s demands on Shandong, South Manchuria, and Eastern Mongolia, and it is appropriate to say: The United States frankly recognizes the territory The adjacency constitutes a special relationship between Japan and these regions.After the note was submitted, your Secretary of State Bulley installed a "mediator" posture, saying that "Japan should not ask for too much, and China should not give too little."What kind of neutrality policy is this?Can Lansing be blamed for these despicable documents that created the "Asian Monroe Doctrine" for Japan?At that time the Secretary of State was Brianje.

Wilson: Now that God Lee has dates and documents to back it up, I admit I was mistaken. God Lee: Your mistake is no small matter.In your instructions to Brian on April 14, 1915, you wrote "Republic of China" as "Chinese Empire". You really support Yuan Shikai, who wants to be emperor! Wilson: (embarrassed) I admit that sacrificing China to satisfy Japan was not something that was done in the year of the Versailles peace treaty. Since God Li can provide evidence, I admit that this was the case in the United States as early as 4 years ago, in 1915.Still, please God Lee understand that this is the reality of international politics.

God Lee: Then you don't sing high-profile, and don't give up the Nobel Peace Prize. Wilson: I think I can understand how God Lee feels. God Lee: How do I feel?yours?Would you like to listen to a passage from a book: The great East is the market now coveted by the whole world--a market for which statesmen and businessmen must plan and compete, for which diplomacy and, if necessary, power must be an open road.The United States cannot easily give up the foothold it neglected to give it by occupying the Philippines. After listening to this passage, do you think the author loves peace?Doesn't the author flaunt his power?Isn't the author an American imperialist? Wilson: (nods his head) The author must be an imperialist. God Lee: I'm sorry, this is a passage from your masterpiece "History of the American People" (History of the American People), which is your masterpiece in 1902. It seems that you are not to blame in 1915. It was as early as 1915 13 years, 1902, your American imperialism has been finalized.Just now you said that Prime Minister Tiger of France has no idealism, and what to do now, you have neither. Although you have won the Nobel Peace Prize, it is nothing less than a scam. In 1916, Taft, who was present, said of you: "I think he is a rude hypocrite, an opportunist, in order to win votes, he can change his beliefs in a moment ... he will make his previous promises Howe discarded it without hesitation, and never explained to the public the reasons that led him to change his beliefs." In 1919, the elder Roosevelt who was present said to you: "God, don't call Wilson an idealist, soldier, or altruism. He is just a dogmatist who sticks to the rules in order to achieve his personal goals smoothly...He has no idea of ​​​​idealism. His active support for the formation of the League of Nations does not mean that he is an idealist, just like he advocates peace without victory... …a lot of the time he was a dogmatist, and often a deeply selfish, cold-blooded politician.” How do you feel about that, President Wilson? Wilson: (helplessly) How can I feel?This is their prejudice. God Lee: Listen to what your good friend Colonel House said of you in 1919: "The President is the most prejudiced man I have ever met. He rarely appreciates others." Wilson: For the benefit of the United States, I just do my best. I am for the big goals of freedom, democracy, and peace. God Lee: You always say you love peace. Tell me how you treat your neighbors. In 1914, when your American sailors were in Tampico (Tampico), you actually offered strange conditions to your neighbor Mexico, demanding that your neighbors be treated. The national flag was fired with a 21-gun salute to pay tribute. What kind of bully condition is this? Wilson: But they refused. God Lee: The problem is that you shouldn't have opened it at all. You Americans are too arrogant. Why do you ask people to fire a salute just at your national flag?You are so disrespectful. Wilson: We actually respect Mexico a lot. God Lee: Respect enough to send General Pershing to lead 6,000 elite troops to penetrate 600 miles into Mexico? Wilson: Mexico has not been kind to us. God Lee: Are you friendly?Who originally owned the territories of your New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona states? Wilson: Oh, it's a matter of history. God Lee: A historical question?Isn't the historical issue just your excuse for beating the Germans for the first time? Wilson: We declared war on Germany because the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, was intercepted by Britain in a telegram urging Mexico to take back the three states of New Mexico. God Lee: Isn't it a historical issue to take back those 3 states?You Americans really love peace, so much that you can’t even mention historical issues? Wilson: Oh. God Lee: Also, your Monroe Doctrine is not limited to the Americas. The United States is the most unfriendly country to the left.Look at your treatment of Russia. After the Russian Revolution, not only did you not help, but you sent several troops into it in 1918.You don't want to remember this record. Wilson: (embarrassed) I really don't remember very well. God Lee: There's another kind of unkindness. The Soviet Russian government was established in 1917, but you, the United States, delayed it for 16 years and only admitted it in 1933. Don’t you think that the world peace you keep talking about is too far away compared with your actions? Wilson: Based on the interests of the American right wing, we have to attack the left wing.When I was president, it was the time when communism sprang up, and we had to prevent it. God Lee: Means of prevention, including letting your Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer launch a crazy attack on the "Red Menace" (Red Menace), convincing Americans that the "Red Men" who dropped the bomb Lurking behind every lamp post.Including arresting 6,000 people overnight in New York without evidence?You carried out the "Great Red Scare" (Great Red Scare) across the country and arrested 10,000 people in 33 cities across the country. Is this your freedom and human rights? Wilson: We don't trust communism, we don't trust the Russians. We can't help it. God Lee: Do you trust communism and the Germans?Shortly after you declared war on Germany you established the Committee of Public Information—actually the Ministry of Propaganda.This committee was engaged in one purpose, which was to make Americans hate the Germans.You have suspended the teaching of German in schools; banned German music, including Beethoven; removed German books from public libraries and even publicly burned books written by these Germans; any German-born immigrants , had to be fingerprinted, the wave of anti-German sentiment became extreme and absurd, and finally even the German badger dogs were renamed "liberty puppies", and German salted cabbages were renamed "liberty pups". Cabbage" (liberty cabbage).President Wilson, you really love peace; you, the United States, are really a free country. Even Beethoven suffered. Do you still have the nerve to say that you are a free country? Wilson: Oh, during the war, it is unavoidably excessive for foreigners. God Lee: To foreigners?To help you recall what you said to your own countrymen: In 1917, you introduced the Espionage Act, and in 1918, you introduced the Sedition Act. or encouraging acts of disloyalty to the state are considered illegal and punishable by a fine of $10,000 or imprisonment for 20 years.As a result, severe penalties were extended to anyone who dared to "say, draw, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, abusive, or insulting words against the government." 250 were deported and 1,500 were imprisoned on espionage and insurrection charges.450 of them were conscientious dissenters - a refusal to fight based on religious or moral convictions.But you don't care.You Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for an anti-war speech, you put him in jail and never pardoned him. Wilson: (Speechless.) Harding: (stands up suddenly) I pardoned Dabz. God Li: You sit down, and the next court will ask you. (Harding sits down.) Bush Jr.: (standing up suddenly) I am too ignorant to know so much American history.Thank you for teaching me a lesson in American history.I suddenly realized that the "Patriot Act" (Patriot Act) that the United States came up with after "911". Everyone scolded me for infringing on civil liberties, which showed that the freedom and human rights in the United States are fake. Now it's okay. It turns out that you Wilson The President legislated to do this over 90 years ago, so stop calling me alone (sit down). (Laughter.) God Lee: (pointing to Bush Jr.) It can be seen that learning more about American history is beneficial to the ignorant American president, because someone shares with him. Bush: (stands up) Thank you (sits down). God Lee: Well, one last question, President Wilson, it seems to be the answer again.British economist John M. Keynes said that you are arrogant, conceited, and stubborn, just like Don Quixote (Don Quixote). How do you feel? Wilson: He's not right about one thing, especially since I'm not Don Quixote. God Lee: You are indeed not Don Quixote, because some people say Don Quixote is crazy, but no one says he is a hypocrite. Wilson: From a long-term perspective, the United States has good intentions, so we promote "American-style democracy" and American-style democratic government to the world. God Li: Back then, Britain built the "Empire on which the sun never sets" and got tired of the sun. In order to control it conveniently, they established British-style governments one by one in places where the sun shines. They said it was a good intention. God knows what kindness is. Just listen to what I say.You America, isn't that the case?The so-called promotion of "American-style democracy" means that democracy is fake, but the United States is real. If you don't listen to you, even democracy will be overthrown; if you listen to you, bastards welcome it.And tomorrow's blatant way of doing it, you Wilson did the best job, didn't you? Wilson: (doubting) I really don't understand everything, please explain in detail? God Lee: Then I will go into more detail.After you were elected president, you publicly stated that the United States only recognizes those democratic regimes in the Americas, and those that do not recognize will be sanctioned. In 1913, there was a coup in Mexico. You were dissatisfied with the new government, and you used force to meddle in your own business.The British Foreign Secretary summoned your ambassador to the UK, and I will read to you the conversation between the two (takes out a piece of paper): Minister: Will you intervene in Mexico by force? Ambassador: We will force them to vote and compel them to abide by the results of the election. Minister: What if they don't accept it? Ambassador: Let's go back and let them vote again. Minister: What if all this takes two hundred years? Ambassador: Then we will stay there for two hundred years until they learn to vote and learn to manage themselves. How interesting!What a horror!How patient!Are you willing to spend two hundred years playing "American-style democracy"? Ah, President Wilson, the Nobel Peace Prize is given to Americans the most.They must really appreciate your two-hundred-year long-term plan to promote "American-style democracy" by force. You said that in the long-term, only your neighbors will wonder: Why is the United States so close to us, but God is so far away from us?You said: "America had the infinite privilege of fulfilling her destiny and saving the world." (America had the infinite privilege of fulfilling her destiny and saving the world.) Who are you?Even God can't say such arrogant words, right? Wilson: I am not God, God is sitting on the "Last Judgment" platform. God Lee: Judging you is the most bizarre scene in "The Last Judgment".No one wants you, a doctor who is a scholar, gentle, but the most stubborn and disgusting imperialist.Other people's imperialism is rough, muttering, and a little restless, but you have "accumulated knowledge and benefits". You really laid the ideological foundation for American imperialism, and you exported "American-style democracy" and gave it back. Doctrinal legitimacy.And you, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in the end, or "Man of Peace", you are so disgusting. WASHINGTON: (rising slowly) Let me say one thing, one thing only: He is exactly the kind of man I warned against in my farewell address. Roosevelt Sr.: (stands abruptly) Damned Presbyterian hypocrite! (Damned Presbyterian hypocrite!) God Lee: Well, the trial ends here.Retire from the court (beat the mallet and stand up). (The curtain falls.)