Chapter 34 Scene 32 Trial of Truman

The scene is the same as Act 1. God Li: (Stands up, hits the gavel) Now announce the opening of the 32nd Court of the "Last Judgment" (sit down).Biography of the defendant, the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S Truman (Harry S Truman). (Truman stands.) God Lee: You are Truman, born in 1884, the 33rd President of the United States. Truman: Yes. God Lee: You once joked about GOP, the abbreviation of the Republican Party. You said that GOP (Grand Old Party) does not represent the "Great Old Party", but a party controlled by 3 "Generals" (Generals' Own Party). The three "generals" are General MacArthur, General Motors and General Electric. General MacArthur, General Motors and General Electric, you mean that the Republican Party is the party controlled by the military and the corporations.Yes or no?

Truman: (laughs) I said those words. God Li: Actually, you missed a General. Truman: (curious) Which one? God Lee: General Confession. Truman: General Confession?Isn't it the general confession that we all read together when we Christians worship? God Li: That’s what it means, but in general terms, it refers to the total repentance of long-term sins. Truman: Oh.You mean the Republican Party as the total confessor? (Laughter.) God Lee: Not just the Republican Party, but all of you Democrats. Truman: What is the total confession? God Lee: I always regret that you dropped the atomic bomb.

Truman: Dropping the atomic bomb is everyone's business. God Lee: But when I see you, I see the atomic bomb. Truman: The atomic bomb was created secretly by my predecessor, President Roosevelt. Although I was the vice president, I knew nothing about it.President Roosevelt spent only half an hour alone with me during his lifetime, and he never let me know that the United States had an atomic bomb. God Lee: But after you know, already the president, you throw them away.You cast hell. Truman: Someone interviewed me, wondering why I got the nickname "Give Hell Harry."I replied: I never gave them hell, I just told them the truth, but they thought that was hell. (I never give them “the public”. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.)

God Lee: At least the Japanese don't agree with your words, because you gave them hell. Truman: (reluctantly) Don't think I'm very proud, but I'm also very sad. God Lee: The fake mercy of you Americans is clearly empathized by the poet Hermann Hagedorn. He said, The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. After suffering, the Lord has mercy. (God, have mercy on our children. God have mercy on America.) But is that the truth?Is it that simple? Truman: For the US president at that time, dropping the atomic bomb was a simple military issue, and it was just how to win the war quickly.To me, the atomic bomb is just a weapon, nothing else.

God Lee: This is the kind of problem for US military leaders.As far as the presidency is concerned, it should be more cosmopolitan. Truman: Oh, what cosmopolitan heights? God Li: For example, threatening the Soviet Union by bombing Japan?There is a view that when you dropped the atomic bomb, you dropped it for the Soviet Union to watch.If this is the case, strictly speaking, it is not considered the height of the world, because it is not enough world, nor high enough. Truman: If that's the case, it's already too high for Americans. God Lee: You said in your memoirs: "General Marshall told me that to surrender Japan on the Japanese mainland would cost an estimated 500,000 American lives." Is this the military's assessment at the time?

Truman: Exactly. God Lee: When Roosevelt Jr. was alive, the military estimated that it was not 500,000, but 2 million. Truman: No matter how many tens of thousands, the Americans will die.We must sacrifice everything for the sake of fewer American deaths. God Lee: The sacrifice of others? Truman: (satisfied) Of course it's someone else's sacrifice. God Lee: So, regardless of enemy or friend, sacrifice is required.Friends sacrificed the territory of Outer Mongolia, and enemies sacrificed human lives under the atomic bomb.Didn't the use of atomic bombs take humanitarian principles into account?

Truman: I would like to remind God Lee that our United States Law of Land Warfare stipulates that "the use of explosive atomic bombs by land, sea and air forces, as there is no custom of international law and no international agreement restricting their use , cannot be considered to be contrary to international law.” God Lee: What kind of law is this?This is obviously the law of "made-to-measure bombs" after the atomic bomb was dropped.As far as the law is concerned, I would like to draw your attention to a Japanese jurisprudence in 1963, which formally found that the use of atomic bombs by the United States violated international law.It was May 1955, and five Japanese people sued the Japanese government in court, demanding compensation for the losses suffered by the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On December 7, 1963, the 22nd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor incident, the Tokyo District Court ruled that the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States violated international law.This weapon deviates from tradition too much.The most obvious point is that because the power is so great that it is impossible to distinguish between bombing targets and non-bombing targets, combatants and non-combatants, military bases or undefended cities, it violates the humanitarian principle of international law.

Truman: Oh. God Lee: Does the use of atomic bombs disregard humanitarian principles or the end of the world? Truman: What doomsday? God Lee: Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon co-wrote Killing Our Own, a book that tells us in great detail about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and even Nevada Numerous deaths have been caused by nuclear bomb tests in the United States, as well as in the Pacific Islands, exposure of uranium in the nuclear industry, and accidents at the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant.Humans playing with the atomic bomb is the beginning of killing ourselves.In the past, human beings did not have the ability to kill themselves. Since the atomic bomb, human beings have; since you, President Truman, human beings have a starting point. It is like the first time a tiger licks blood, it has a starting point.This starting point is so tempting to people and yourself that you even wanted to lose it during the Korean War in 1950.

Truman: Do I have one? God Li: Now we see that in the declassified November 9, 1950 US National Security Council top secret document, it is clearly written: "In order to oppose the CCP's invasion of North Korea, the possibility of using atomic bombs is divided into two types: tactical purposes, for North Korea; for strategic purposes, used in Manchuria." Please note that on October 25, 1950, China sent troops, and half a month later, the US internal plan to use atomic bombs against China came out. On November 30, 1950, you made indirect comments at the press conference, and there was an uproar about whether to use the atomic bomb or not, which caused the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to come to Washington to be concerned. Until you promised Attlee that the atomic bomb would not be dropped, It's raining and sunny.isn't it?

Truman: (thinking for a moment) So basically. God Lee: Why not use it?American soldiers are dying every day in North Korea. Truman: We have to be careful. God Lee: It can be seen that the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan five years ago caused complicated problems. The atomic bomb is not an ordinary new weapon.You can't decide whether to throw it away just because the American soldier is dead or not, can you? Truman: Oh. God Lee: God created man, at least until the end of the world to clean up human beings, but the mad scientist cleared the place ahead of time, and cleaned up before God did it.Mad scientists themselves are not enough to do bad things, because they are idiots as soon as they leave the laboratory, but they will give their research results to mad politicians to do all kinds of bad things.The genius who invented the atomic bomb, Robert J. Oppenheimer (Robert J. Oppenheimer), after discovering the cruelty of the atomic bomb, played a game of chess with you, the President of the United States. However, you laughed at this sad-faced and crying guy, and ignored him. It is a political use Without science, it is not easy for a mad scientist to retire. Oppenheimer's loyalty has been investigated.

Truman: That's how inexplicable these Frankensteins are.They thought they had built the atomic bomb and could control its use, they were so naive.Once a weapon is in the hands of a politician, it is entirely up to the politician where and when it is thrown.Scientists thought that at that time they could still dictate what to do, they were too naive.As for Oppenheimer's loyalty being investigated later, so what? Even Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein) was not investigated long ago? God Lee: Do you remember how you persecuted Charlie Chaplin in the United States in 1952 when you were president?You use accusations such as "liberal" to prevent him from entering the country, but tax him until 1955, because he is still a U.S. citizen, and you also bring up the 1910 Mann Act (Mann Law) Act) teased him, he recalled (taking out a piece of paper): "The federal government has used legal coercion from time to time to undermine the prestige of political opponents. The original purpose of the Mann Act was to prohibit the transportation of women to other states for prostitution. .Since the abolition of weathered zones, this law has no effect at all, but it is still used as a basis for sacrificing citizens. In case a man accompanied his divorced wife across the state line to another state, And have sex with her, he will be prosecuted for violating the "Mann Law", and he will probably serve 5 years in prison. The US government is using this legal opportunism to prosecute me." Chaplin's The conclusion is: "Such and such ultra-patriots will make the United States the nucleus of fascism." Ironically, the fascist temperament of Americans is discovered by top stars.Even the top stars are persecuted like this, and other dissidents can be imagined. Truman: There are too many secrets in the United States, but they were exposed when they met Chaplin. God Li: In fact, you will always keep secrets.For example, when the president built the atomic bomb, the vice president was kept in the dark. Truman: The design of the atomic bomb was suggested by Einstein to President Roosevelt.This is the achievement of the combined forces of science, industry, labor and military, which is unprecedented in history.The staff in charge are working under extremely stressful conditions.All arduous tasks require more than 100,000 people and a lot of supplies.The entire trial will take two and a half years and cost $2.5 billion.Of the thousands of people who work in the factories, only a handful know what they are producing.The plan was kept so secret that even some of Washington's most senior officials had no idea what was going on, and I had no idea in advance. God Lee: You, the Vice President, don't know, not even Congress.The US$2.5 billion was spent, and the Congress didn’t even know about it. What a democratic country, it’s so democratic that if the president is a thief, the Congress doesn’t even know. Truman: I can't help but admire how well we Americans can keep secrets. God Li: We Chinese admire it the most, because that time in Yalta, you were so secretive that you betrayed Outer Mongolia without even saying hello.But let me tell you, you didn't build the atomic bomb when you were the vice president. It started when you were the senator.Once, the Senate Armed Services Investigative Committee chaired by your Senator Truman wanted to investigate the Manhattan Project, and Stimson flatly refused.Stimson said: "I can't tell you, this is the most important plan ever." As for your Congress, don't ask any more.Ha, American democracy, American Congress. Truman: Everyone knows that the 76-year-old minister, Stimson, is trustworthy, so I ordered the investigation to stop. God Lee: After you became president, Stimson told you the big secret. Truman: Good. God Lee: Before the atomic bomb was dropped, your military was not without objections.Among the senior generals, Admiral Lee Hai never denied his aversion to the atomic bomb, Air Force Admiral HH Arnold disapproved of the use of atomic bombs, General Eisenhower also hoped that such bombs would not be used against Japan, and he did not want the United States to be the instigator. Be the first to use this incredibly lethal and destructive weapon. Truman: But most military chiefs think this new bomb is no more immoral than TNT or incendiary bombs.Mass bombing of civilians was a common occurrence during World War II.For example, on the night of March 9, 1945, an area of ​​41 square kilometers in Tokyo was destroyed by burning bombs, and 78,000 people died. God Li: 78,000 people can die as soon as they die, and it’s okay to have an atomic bomb, isn’t it? Truman: (hesitating) It's not easy to say that, is it? God Lee: So, in your detailed memoir, I read the entire book and saw you write about the atomic bomb, and saw you write about the bombing of Hiroshima on August 5, 1945, and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.Fried Nagasaki, you described it vividly (take out a piece of paper): The bombing target selected by the second atomic bomb was Kokura first, followed by Nagasaki.The third city on the list was Niigata, which was canceled because it was too far away.When the plane reached the sky over Kokura, it happened to be overcast and overcast. After three laps, the bombing target was still not found. Since there was not enough gasoline, it was decided to fly to the second target—Nagasaki to try.The weather in Nagasaki was also not good, but the dissipation of the clouds and fog gave an opportunity, and the bombing of Nagasaki was very successful. Your memoirs are very detailed, but you can’t find a line of death figures in the whole book. How many people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?You don't say a word. Truman: (dazed) Oh. God Lee: According to your American statement, 70,000 people died in Hiroshima and 40,000 people died in Nagasaki. According to Japan, 100,000 people died in Hiroshima and 70,000 people died in Nagasaki. The number of people is really similar to your number of non-atom bomb deaths in Tokyo on March 9, 1945. It seems that zero kills add up to more, and they are not inferior to total kills. Truman: Oh. God Lee: Of course the injury is different. Truman: Oh. God Li: (takes out a picture album) This is a photobook of the atomic bombing in 1945, edited by the Japanese, do you want to take a look? Truman: (frowning) I don't think I need to. God Lee: To err is Truman? (Mergers, Truman's nature is also.) Do you remember this sentence in English? Truman: Am I going to admit my mistake?I'm not wrong, but America has. God Lee: I know what you're going to say.Your daughter recalled that you made up your mind to fight the Korean War because you saw the Korean War as a test similar to Japan’s invasion of Northeast China in 1931. You thought that if the world’s powerful countries resisted Japan with all their strength, Japan might understand the meaning of aggression. Unwise move, maybe Asia can escape the catastrophe of the Great War. Truman: Exactly. God Lee: Do you know how hateful you are in the United States?The Japanese invaded China. Instead of doing something positive for world peace as your daughter said, you sold arms to Japan in a negative way.Didn’t you, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, show the two-foot-long protest letter signed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army?The letter of protest pointed out that your American arms dealers sell a large amount of arms, accounting for more than half of Japan's arms imports.What are you doing in America? Truman: So after I became president, I tried to improve. God Lee: What did you improve?The arms are no longer in Japan, and the arms are in China.You aided the reactionary Chiang Kai-shek government and caused the Chinese people to have a civil war. Fortunately, the Communist Party won. Truman: (laughs) The Communist Party also won by relying on American arms to a considerable extent.Many of the arms we aided Chiang Kai-shek fell into the hands of the Communist Party. God Lee: Chiang Kai-shek was too corrupt to keep the arms, but was snatched by the Communist Party.The Communist Party ridiculed Chiang Kai-shek as the "captain of the transportation brigade".In the end, Chiang Kai-shek, whom you supported, lost mainland China.In your memoirs, you said that Marshall told you: "We can no longer lose Taiwan." Acheson told you: "Taiwan cannot fall into the hands of the Communist Party, regardless of Chiang Kai-shek." So, you supported Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship in Taiwan, And invaded Taiwan.This is the foundation you laid, you planted the bane, until today. Truman: It is difficult to deal with the China issue. Marshall I was famous, but the mediation failed. God Lee: What I mentioned is the root of the disaster. The mediation failed. China stood up in 1949, but you planted the root of the disaster. To this day, it has not been resolved. It is the Taiwan issue.You have created a puppet regime and "sub-traitor" issues in China. Truman: According to God Lee, Taiwan's Kuomintang and Democratic Progressive Party regimes are puppet regimes.I know.As for the "secondary traitor", I don't understand. I've heard of "traitor", it is a traitor to China, it can be regarded as "China's Quisling (Quisling)".What is a "secondary traitor"? God Lee: First of all, let me correct you. The leader of the puppet regime in Taiwan is not as good as Quisling. Quisling, who lived to be 58 years old and was shot, was at least recognized by the Nazis. He is also a "minister-president". The Tao is "North America", and it is fully recognized by Germany.What is Taiwan?The United States does not recognize it.Therefore, from the Kuomintang to the DPP and then to the Kuomintang, they are not even worthy of being "traitors". They are inferior to traitors and can be called "secondary traitors". Just like the lack of "cultural" components, it is called "subculture". "Han traitor" at least has to be recognized by the master; "secondary traitor" means that the master does not recognize you at all, and if you don't recognize you, you are still so lowly and low-spirited, which is only found in Taiwan in the world.The United States has played around the world for a lifetime, but it has never been as cheap as Taiwan. Truman: China is too complicated. God Lee: There is another complicated issue, which is the Israeli issue, which is also the root of your seed. In 1947, under the manipulation of your US government, the United Nations actually passed a resolution that more than 600,000 Jews got 57% of the land, while more than 1.2 million Palestinians only got 43% of the land.This unfair resolution planted the chaos of war in the Arab world. On May 14, 1948, the Jews announced the establishment of the State of Israel, and minutes later, you, as the President of the United States, announced the recognition of Israel.Since then, there has been no peace in the Middle East. Truman: Shouldn't the Jews be rehabilitated? God Li: For a country that died in 586 BC, it will be restored according to the "Bible" after 2500 years, and it will re-squeeze into the world that has changed again and again in the past 2500 years. China, obviously creating a source of chaos for the world.Because the Jews have power in the United States and can help you fight in the Middle East, you in the United States succumbed to their demand for restoration of the country, and now you have stabbed a hornet's nest.You are absolutely responsible. Truman: We in the United States have been steadily controlling this situation. God Lee: Can it be controlled?The world is changing. Will NSC-68 (National Security Council Document 68) that you came up with in 1950 work forever? 68 became "911", right? Truman: We will try to control it. God Lee: On June 24, 1941, the day after Germany fought the Soviet Union, the "New York Times" published your talk, you said: If we see Germany win, we should help the Soviet Union; if the Soviet Union wins, we should help the Soviet Union Germany.Just like that, let them fight each other, the more casualties the better. (If we see that Germany is winning the war we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.) Your words are very frank, but your American world The pattern is nothing more than that. Truman: This is international politics! God Lee: On September 18, 1948, you said in your campaign speech for the U.S. President: After another 1,000 years, the United States will still be the greatest country in the world; on October 11, you said that your United States is the greatest in history , the greatest country under the sun.Now that 60 years have passed, according to your 1,000-year standard, other countries in the world will continue to barbecue under your American sun for 940 years. Do you think you agree with the way you are doing in the United States today?Your world structure is getting smaller and smaller, right? Truman: (embarrassed) It is indeed getting smaller and smaller, who can turn the United States around? God Lee: You said that a politician is a politician 10 or 15 years after his death. (A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifteen years.) Do you still think this way today? Truman: I think that's what I say when I can't convince them (convince them) but confuse them (confuse them). There have never been politicians in the United States, at least I haven't seen them.A politician has to be a great person. The soil of the United States cannot grow great politicians, because its neighbors are too weak and its enemies are too far away. God Lee: When it comes to neighbors, I think of Latin American countries south of Mexico. They are your neighbors, but you framed them all the way. In addition to showing violence, you also trained a lot of dictators or killers of democracy. The training is to use The school started teaching students in 1946 when you were in power. It was originally called "School of the Americas" and later changed its name to "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation".These trainees have been notorious for violating human rights after returning home. For example, Argentine President General Leopoldo Galtieri purged and killed the leftist opposition party in the country; "(Dirty War) serious violations of human rights, nearly 20 years in prison; Ecuadorian dictator General Guillermo Rodriguez; El Salvador's execution squad leader Major Roberto D. Aubuisson; Guatemalan military strongman Monte ( Jose Efrain Rios Montt, who committed a string of atrocities during the Civil War; General Noriega, the Panamanian military dictator who later turned against his American masters; Vladimiro Montesinos, a notoriously corrupt Peruvian intelligence chief... counting Up, there are countless.Of course, some of them were processed by orthodox American schools. West Point Military Academy processed Nicaraguan President Sumusa and Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres.There are more unscrupulous rulers in Latin America, all thanks to you, the United States.President Truman, unfortunately, the training of these bad guys in Latin America started with your presidency, just as the CIA was established with you.By the old-school standards of your Secretary of War, Stimson, even peeking at other people's letters is not a gentleman's act, and you America is depraved by comparison. Truman: Oh, I admit that for foreign countries, we use different standards than the United States.At least in the United States, we value freedom and the rule of law. God Lee: Give me an example. Truman: The United States will not have communism. This is a proof of American freedom and the rule of law. God Lee: Proof of Freedom?Just the opposite?On the contrary, it is proof that you do not have the rule of law in the United States.Tell me what is Roosevelt's Smith Act?In 1949, when you were in office, 11 Communist Party leaders who made up the "Politburo" of the American Communist Party were sentenced for violating the 1940 Smith Act.Soon, McCarthy (Joseph R. McCarthy) was on a killing spree.Don't think that it's the senator's business alone. McCarthy is the mainstream of your American anti-rule of law and anti-freedom.Coupled with the later "McCarran-Nixon Bill" (McCarran-Nixon Bill), you, the United States, have shown your arrogance and hostility to the world from immigration checkpoints. The British poet Stephen Spender wrote because he believed After passing communism, he was not allowed to enter the United States; many famous people, whether they were from Germany, Italy, or Hungary, were accused of being familiar with fascist groups, and they were not allowed to enter the United States; even many people who participated in the resistance against the Nazis were not allowed to enter the United States. They are also not allowed to enter the United States.In 1952, the "McCarran Act" (McCarran Act) came again, which was even more nerve-wracking. Even General Eisenhower couldn't see it. For the Hungarians... because of the Macallan Act, the ideal that beckoned to them has become a mirage.” (yet to the Czech, the Pole, the Hungarian who takes his life in his hand and crosses the frontier Tonight the ideal that beckoned him can be a mirage because of the McCarran Act.) How stingy, you Americans treat the world in this way, whether it is illegal or legal, it is the same, and the rule of law and freedom you claim to be taught by everyone up.Well, do you have anything else to say? Truman: Oh, I guess I'm out of words. God Li: Retire from court (beat the gavel and stand up). (The curtain falls.)