【正文】 tinguished guests, Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo of the armies of China, will now address you.[Applause] ADDRESS BY KAISHEK , Members of the Senate of the United States, ladies and gentlemen, I am overwhelmed by the warmth and spontaneity of the wele of the American people, of whom you are the did not know that I was to speak to you today at the Senate except to say, ※How do you do? I am so very glad to see you,167。 and to bring the greetings to my people to the people of , just before ing here, the Vice President told me that he would like to have me say a few words to am not a very good extemporaneous speaker。in fact, I am no speaker at all。but I am not so very much discouraged, because a few days ago I was at Hyde Park, and went to the President＊s I saw there encouraged me, and made me feel that perhaps you will not expect overmuch of me in speaking to you do you think I saw there? I saw many the one thing which interested me most of all was that in a glass case there was the first draft of tone of the President＊s speeches, a second draft, and on and on up to the sixth I happened to mention this fact to thePresident, and told him that I was extremely glad that he had to write so many drafts when he is such a wellknown and acknowledgedly fine reply to me was that sometimes he writes 12 drafts of a , my remarks here today, being extemporaneous, I am sure you will make allowances for traditional friendship between your country and mine has a history of 160 feel, and I believe that I am now the only one who feels this way, that there are a great many similarities between your people and mine, and that these similarities are the basis of our should like to tell you a little story which will illustrate this General Doolittle and his men went to bomb Tokyo, on their return some of your boys had to bail out in the interior of of them later told me that he had to mail out of his that when he landed on Chinese soil and saw the populace running toward him, he just waved his arm and shouted the only Chinese word he knew, ※Meikuo, Meikuo,167。 which means ※America,167。 [Applause.] Literally translated from the Chinese it means ※Beautiful country.167。 This boy said that our people laughed and almost hugged him, and greeted him like a long lost further told me that the thought that he had e home when he saw our people。and that was the first time he had ever been to China.[Applause.]I came to your country as a little know your have lived with spent the formative years of my life amongst your speak your language, not only the language of your hearts, but also your ing here today I feel that I am also ing home.[Applause.] I believe, however, that it is not only I who am ing home。I feel that if the Chinese people could speak to you in your own tongue, or if you could understand our tongue, they would tell you that basically and fundamentally we are fighting for the same cause [great applause]。that we have identity of ideals＊ that the ※four freedoms,167。 which your President proclaimed to the world, resound throughout our vast land as the gong of freedom, the gong of freedom of the United Nations, and the death knell of the aggressors.[Applause.] I assure you that our people are willing and eager to cooperate with you in the realization of these ideals, because we want to see to it that they do not echo as empty phrases, but bee realities for ourselves, for your children, for our children＊s children, and for all mankind.[Applause.] How are we going to realize these ideals? I think I shall tell you a little story which just came to my you know, China is a very old have a history of 5,000 we were obliged to evacuate Hankow and go into the hinterland to carry on and continue our resistance against aggression, the Generalissimo and I passed one of our fronts, the Changsha day we went in to the Hengyang Mountains, where there are traces of a famous pavilion called ※Rubthemirror167。 pavilion, which perhaps interest you to hear the story of that thousand years ago near that spot wasan old Buddhist of the young monks went there , and all day long he sat crosslegged, with his hands clasped before him in and attitude of prayer, and murmured ※AmitaBuddha!AmitaBuddha!AmitaBuddha!167。 He murmured and chanted day after day, because he hoped that he would acquire Father Prior of that temple took a piece of brick and rubbed it against a stone hour after hour, day after day, and week after little acolyte, being very young, sometimes cast his eyes around to see what the old Father Prior was old Father Prior just kept on this work of rubbing the brick against the one day the young acolyte said to him, ※Father Prior, what are you doing day after day rubbing this brick of stone?167。 The Father Prior replied, ※I am trying to make a mirror out of this brick.167。 The young acolyte said, ※But it is impossible to make a mirror out of a brick, Father Prior.167。 ※Yes,167。 said the Father Prior, ※and it is just as impossible for you to acquire grace by doing nothing except murmur ＆AmitaBuddha＊ all day long, day in and day out.167。 [Applause.]So my friends, I feel that it is necessary for us not only to have ideals and to proclaim that we have them, it is necessary that we act to implement them.[Applause.] And so to you, gentlemen of the Senate, and to you ladies and gentleman in the galleries, I say that without the active help of all of us, our leaders cannot implement these ＊s up to you and to me to take to heart the lesson of ※RubtheMirror167。 thank you.[Great applause, Senators and their guests rising.]Following her address, Kaishek and the distinguished visitors acpanying her and the others guests of the Senate were escorted from the David (中文名：郭銘基)，美林集團(tuán)董事長(zhǎng)兼首席執(zhí)行官。１９３９年４月２７日出生。畢業(yè)于邁阿密大學(xué)的會(huì)計(jì)專業(yè)。參加過哈佛大學(xué)的高級(jí)主管人員研修班。郭銘基具有驚人的演講才華，加上其資深的金融行業(yè)閱曆，被稱為美國(guó)金融界的代言人。美林集團(tuán)具有１００多年的歷史，是全世界最大的全球性綜合投資銀行，主要為各類企業(yè)、政府機(jī)構(gòu)以及個(gè)人投資者提供投資、融資、諮詢及財(cái)務(wù)顧問等服務(wù)。在美國(guó)《幸?！冯s誌全球５００強(qiáng)的證券投資業(yè)公司中排名第一。本文是郭銘基先生賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)沃頓商學(xué)院的演講。沃頓商學(xué)院是全球MBA排名第一的商學(xué)院?！癋ive Paradoxes of the N