As we all know, Hu Shi is a famous modern Chinese writer who served as the president of Peking University. During the period of the New Culture Movement, he was also the founder and youth leader, and after joining the magazine "New Youth", he played a great role in promoting the development of vernacular literature in China. In short, when Hu Shi led the New Culture Movement, he could only be said to be famous.
** He also admired Hu Shi very much, and even made Hu Shi one of his ideological mentors. But Hu Shi and *** eventually parted ways, especially the two things he did before leaving the mainland, which caused *** to be quite disappointed in this big brother, both of which happened in 1945.
The first was in March, when Hu Shih served as China's ambassador to the United States, leading a delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in San Francisco. At that time, Dong Biwu, a representative of the Communist Party of China, deliberately approached Hu Shih, hoping to reach an agreement with him and let him accept and support our party's proposals.
After all, Hu Shi himself had an extraordinary influence during the New Culture Movement, and he was one of the leaders in the hearts of young people.
After all, Germany was dying at that time, and then signed the unconditional surrender in May 1945, and Japan only lasted more than three months longer than Germany, and surrendered unconditionally to the anti-fascist allies on August 15 of that year, so in March, it is not difficult to see that Germany and Japan have lost a certain defeat.
Then how to deal with the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party after the war is an issue that many people should pay attention to, and we know that the Kuomintang is definitely unreliable, so we have long been preparing to continue the confrontation with the Kuomintang after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Under such circumstances, in order to win the support of the people of the whole country, it is necessary to draw some influential and far-sighted people into our camp.
But Hu Shi's attitude is very stubborn. When he communicated with Dong Biwu, he not only rejected the idea of supporting our party in public, but also demanded that our party abandon the class armed struggle in accordance with the basic concept of non-action and only carry out pure political activities.
To put it simply, Hu Shi believes that after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China will usher in a period of long-term peace. Under such circumstances, the KMT will inevitably carry out nationwide democratic reform and democratic elections.
At that time, the Communist Party was the second largest political force in the country after the Kuomintang, and he hoped that our party could directly participate in the election as the second largest party participating in the elections and obtain political status through democratic elections, but this statement was obviously very short-sighted.
When Hu Shih was appointed by the Kuomintang as China's ambassador to the United States, he had obviously been induced by the Kuomintang, and when he handled the issue, he completely considered it from the standpoint of the Kuomintang, and he never thought at all that if the Kuomintang refused to carry out democratic reform in the real sense, then if our party gave up the class armed struggle, it would have no choice but to let the Kuomintang slaughter it
And the facts have proved that Hu Shi's idea is indeed wrong. Although after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang pretended to communicate with our party and build the country peacefully. However, soon after the signing of the "Double Tenth Agreement", the Kuomintang launched a civil war, and if we really accepted Hu Shih's opinion at that time, then how should we resist when the Kuomintang provoked a civil war again?
On August 24, 1945, not long after the Japanese surrendered, Hu Shi, who was in New York, actually sent a telegram to *** again, and the core theme of his telegram was only four words: give up force.
Because the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had ended, the focus of the next discussion at that time should be on peaceful nation-building, and how to deal with the armed forces in the hands of our party became the focus of attention.
However, the attitude of the Kuomintang is unreasonable, that is, to let the New Fourth Army accept its own reorganization without being able to resist, which is actually a political conspiracy to seize the armed forces of our party. And Hu Shih actually stood on the side of the Kuomintang again, calling on our side to take the initiative to give up force.
Hu Shi's two behaviors also made *** disappointed in him, although Hu Shi had ambitions, but more than ten years of foreign life made him lack of understanding of the domestic situation, and he did not have the corresponding sensitivity in politics. Of course, this is also because of the different positions of the station, and the perspective of the problem is also different.
Later, the Liberation War broke out, and the People's Liberation Army defeated **. Before the victory of the Pingjin Campaign, Hu Shi was still in Beijing at that time, so he sent someone to send a message to Hu Shi, hoping that he would not leave Beijing and could stay in China to continue to build New China.
But Hu Shih eventually made the wrong decision and left Beijing, and although he did not go to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, he chose to go to the United States on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Later, Hu Shih came to Taiwan in 1958 and served as the president of the so-called "** Research Institute".
However, at this time, Hu Shi's influence plummeted, and his political career had long since ended. Later, Hu Shi also lost Chiang Kai-shek's support because of an article published on Chiang Kai-shek's 70th birthday in 1956 criticizing Chiang Kai-shek's monopoly of power and ruling **.
At that time, he made two speeches demanding that our party give up the class struggle and the use of force, which proved his confidence in the Kuomintang. However, in fact, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek was unable to save China at all, and the Kuomintang did not carry out democratic reforms as Hu Shih thought after its defeat and retreat to Taiwan.
In fact, the Kuomintang ** is still Chiang Kai-shek's word, and even Chiang Kai-shek later directly violated the constitution he led to formulate for the third time. Chiang Kai-shek remained firmly in power in Taiwan until his death, which also proves that Hu Shih was indeed unwise.
However, although *** was disappointed in him, he never gave up on him.
For example, in the fifties of the last century, at a symposium for banqueting senior intellectuals, ** commented: "Hu Shi is really stubborn, we asked many people to bring letters to him and persuade him to come back, but I don't know what he is greedy for." To tell the truth, he has made meritorious contributions to the New Culture Movement, which cannot be erased, and should be realistic. ”
It can be seen from these words that ** thinks that although Hu Shi is wrong, he can still forgive him for his merits.