钱学森对“中美开战支持谁”问题的回答

从来没有救世主

http://www.gateway2china.com/report/qian/hong_suo.htm

"In the event of a conflict between this country and Red China, would you
fight against Red China for the United States?"

"I can -- c-a-n -- answer the question now," replied Tsien, stung, "and the
answer is as follows: I have already said that my essential allegiance is to
the people of China, and if the war between the United States and Communist
China is for the good of the people of China, which I think is very likely
to be, so then I will fight on the side of the United States. No question
about that."

"But you will make the decision first? You will determine whether it is for
the good of the Chinese people?" Del Guercio asked.

"That decision, yes, I would make."

"You will not permit the Government of the United States to make that
decision for you?"

"No, certainly not."





Tsien, sometimes struggling with the language, seemed mystified by the
assault tactics of an American prosecutor. Del Guercio was relentless.

"Do you owe your allegiance to Communist China?"

"I do not," Tsien replied.

"To whom do you owe allegiance?"

"I owe allegiance to the people of China."

Del Guercio sparred with Tsien for a moment and then demanded: "In the event
of a conflict between this country and Red China, would you fight against
Red China for the United States?"

Tsien parried. The situation had not presented itself. There was no such war
. Again, Tsien's lawyer protested. His client would need time to think about
such a question.

"We will wait here six months," Del Guercio snapped.

But Tsien volunteered that it would take only moments. The room fell silent.
Five minutes ticked by. Finally, Tsien said, "I can't answer the question
now."

"You can't or won't answer the question now?"

"I can -- c-a-n -- answer the question now," replied Tsien, stung, "and the
answer is as follows: I have already said that my essential allegiance is to
the people of China, and if the war between the United States and Communist
China is for the good of the people of China, which I think is very likely
to be, so then I will fight on the side of the United States. No question
about that."

"But you will make the decision first? You will determine whether it is for
the good of the Chinese people?" Del Guercio asked.

"That decision, yes, I would make."

"You will not permit the Government of the United States to make that
decision for you?"

"No, certainly not."

That apparently was the Government's case.

The hearings dragged into the spring of 1951, and on April 26, the hearing
officer declared his decision: Tsien was an alien, a native and citizen of
China, who was "subject to deportation on the grounds that he has been found
to have been, prior to entry ... an alien who was a member of the Communist
Party of the United States."

Tsien could not leave Los Angeles County without permission. He was declared
subject to expulsion, but far too valuable to expel.

Virtually a prisoner, Tsien remarkably snapped out of his mood of depression
and plunged into new work during his final years in the United States. He
found the stamina to turn out a technical paper every month for four months
in a row, as if this outpouring of labor were the only way he could suppress
his resentment.

Some newspapers speculate that Tsien was traded for 11 U.S. airmen captured
by Red China

FINALLY, AFTER FIVE YEARS, Tsien was able to close his California home, free
to leave the country. The Justice Department evidently had decided that
five years had been enough to decontaminate him and nullify his menace.