38.What did Chiang Kai Shek think of Hu Shi

38.What did Chiang Kai Shek think of Hu Shi?

In June 1940, Chiang Kai Shek wrote a passage in his diary, saying that I appointed Hu Shi, a "man with no soul and common sense", as Chinese ambassador to the United States. It was "too much for me to blame anyone.". You think that it was the most difficult time of the Anti Japanese War, and it was the most important diplomatic mission of the Chiang Kai Shek government to strive for American assistance. How cautious should you be in sending an ambassador to the United States?

2. Why did Chiang Kai Shek belittle Hu Shi in private? If Hu Shi is not obedient, or not very good at handling affairs, it is enough to say that he has no common sense. Why should he add such a moral evaluation as "no soul"?

More than 20 years later, when Hu Shi died, Chiang Kai Shek also gave him a pair of elegiac couplets, saying that he was "a model of the old morality in the new culture and a model of the new ideas in the old ethics.".

You see, when we don't look up to another person's ability or position, we always depreciate his morality. In hindsight, the evaluation of morality is always erratic. People should not indulge themselves in talking about other people's morality, either openly or privately.

蒋介石怎么看胡适？

话说，1940年6月份，蒋介石在日记里面写了这么一段话，说，我把胡适这种“毫无灵魂和常识之人”任命为中国驻美大使，是“余之过耳，何怪于人”。你想，当时是抗战最艰苦的时候，争取美国援助，是蒋介石政府最重要的外交使命，你派一个驻美国大使，要何等谨慎？

2.而蒋介石私下里为什么要这么贬低胡适呢？如果说胡适不听话，或者不太会办事，说一句没有常识也就够了，为啥还要加上一句“毫无灵魂”这种道德评价的重话呢？

二十几年后，胡适去世，蒋介石还送了他一副挽联，说他是“新文化中旧道德的楷模，旧伦理中新思想的师表”。

你看，当我们看不上另外一个人的能力或者立场，总是会顺带贬低他的道德。而事后来看，对道德的评价总是飘忽不定。人真是不应该纵容自己谈论别人的道德，公开的，私下的都不该啊。

重点词汇

common sense 常识

United States 美国；美利坚合众国 ; 美国

too much for 非…力所能及的;非…应付得了的

most important 重要的 ; 有重大影响的 ; 有巨大价值的 ; 影响很大的 ; 权威的 ; important的最高级

diplomatic mission 外交使命

strive for 争取 ; 奋发图强 ; 收下

in private 私下地 ; 秘密地

enough to 足够…去做 ; 足以 ; 足够……可以