§中国人之所以应当感谢美国资产阶级发言人艾奇逊，不但是因为艾奇逊明确地供认了美国出钱出枪，蒋介石出人，替美国打仗杀中国人这样一种事实，使得中国的先进分子有证据地去说服落后分子。
#§The Chinese should thank Acheson, spokesman of the U.S. bourgeoisie, not merely because he has explicitly confessed to the fact that the United States supplied the money and guns and Chiang Kai-shek the men to fight for the United States and slaughter the Chinese people and because he has thus given Chinese progressives evidence with which to convince the backward elements.
不是吗？
# §You see, hasn't Acheson himself confessed that the great, sanguinary war of the last few years, which cost the lives of millions of Chinese, was planned and organized by U.S. imperialism?
你们看，艾奇逊自己招认了，最近数年的这一场使得几百万中国人丧失生命的大血战，是美国帝国主义有计划地组织成功的。
# §You see, hasn't Acheson himself confessed that the great, sanguinary war of the last few years, which cost the lives of millions of Chinese, was planned and organized by U.S. imperialism?
中国人之所以应当感谢艾奇逊，又不但因为艾奇逊公开地宣称，他们要招收中国的所谓“民主个人主义”分子，组织美国的第五纵队，推翻中国共产党领导的人民政府，因此引起了中国人特别是那些带有自由主义色彩的中国人的注意，大家相约不要上美国人的当，到处警戒美帝国主义在暗地里进行的阴谋活动。
#§ The Chinese should thank Acheson, again not merely because he has openly declared that the United States intends to recruit the so-called "democratic individualists" in China, organize a U.S. fifth column and overthrow the People's Government led by the Communist Party of China and has thus alerted the Chinese, especially those tinged with liberalism, who are promising each other not to be taken in by the Americans and are all on guard against the underhand intrigues of U.S. imperialism.
中国人之所以应当感谢艾奇逊，还因为艾奇逊胡诌了一大篇中国近代史，而艾奇逊的历史观点正是中国知识分子中有一部分人所同具的观点，就是说资产阶级的唯心的历史观。
# § The Chinese should thank Acheson also because he has fabricated wild tales about modern Chinese history; and his conception of history is precisely that shared by a section of the Chinese intellectuals, namely, the bourgeois idealist conception of history.
驳斥了艾奇逊，就有可能使得广大的中国人获得打开眼界的益处。
#§Hence, a refutation of Acheson may benefit many Chinese by widening their horizon.
对于那些抱着和艾奇逊相同或者有某些相同的观点的人们，则可能是更加有益的。
# § The benefit may be even greater to those whose conception is the same, or in certain respects the same, as Acheson's.
他首先试图从中国的经济状况和思想状况去说明中国革命的发生。
# § First of all, he tries to explain the occurrence of the Chinese revolution in terms of economic and ideological conditions in China.
艾奇逊说：“中国人口在十八、十九两个世纪里增加了一倍，因此使土地受到不堪负担的压力。
#§Acheson says: The population of China during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries doubled, thereby creating an unbearable pressure upon the land.
人民的吃饭问题是每个中国政府必然碰到的第一个问题。
#§ The first problem which every Chinese Government has had to face is that of feeding this population.
国民党在法典里写上了许多土地改革法令，想这样来解决这个问题。
#§The Kuomintang attempted to solve it by putting many land-reform laws on the statute books.
这些法令有的失败了，有的被忽视。
# § Some of these laws have failed, others have been ignored.
国民政府之所以有今天的窘况，很大的一个原因是它没有使中国有足够的东西吃。
#§In no small measure, the predicament in which the National Government finds itself today is due to its failure to provide China with enough to eat.
中共宣传的内容，一大部分是他们决心解决土地问题的诺言。”
#§A large part of the Chinese Communists' propaganda consists of promises that they will solve the land problem.
在不明事理的中国人看来，很有点像。
#§To those Chinese who do not reason clearly the above sounds plausible.
国民党没有解决这个问题，共产党也不见得能解决这个问题，“一直到现在没有一个政府使这个问题得到了解决”。
#§The Kuomintang has failed to solve this problem and it is unlikely that the Communist Party will be able to solve it either. # § "So far none has succeeded."
古今中外有过很多的革命，都是由于人口太多吗？
#§ There have been many revolutions, ancient and modern, in China and abroad; were they all due to over-population?
中国几千年以来的很多次的革命，也是由于人口太多吗？
#§ Were China's many revolutions in the past few thousand years also due to over-population?
美国一百七十四年以前的反英革命，也是由于人口太多吗？
#§ Was the American Revolution against Britain 174 years ago also due to overpopulation?
艾奇逊的历史知识等于零，他连美国独立宣言也没有读过。
# §Acheson's knowledge of history is nil. #§ He has not even read the American Declaration of Independence.
华盛顿杰斐逊们之所以举行反英革命，是因为英国人压迫和剥削美国人，而不是什么美国人口过剩。
# §Washington, Jefferson and others made the revolution against Britain because of British oppression and exploitation of the Americans, and not because of any over-population in America.
中国人民历次推翻自己的封建朝廷，是因为这些封建朝廷压迫和剥削人民，而不是什么人口过剩。
#§ Each time the Chinese people overthrew a feudal dynasty it was because of the oppression and exploitation of the people by that feudal dynasty, and not because of any over-population.
俄国人所以举行二月革命和十月革命，是因为俄皇和俄国资产阶级的压迫和剥削，而不是什么人口过剩，俄国至今还是土地多过人口很远的。
# §The Russians made the February Revolution and the October Revolution because of oppression and exploitation by the tsar and the Russian bourgeoisie, not because of any overpopulation, for to this day in Russia there is a great abundance of land as compared with people.
蒙古土地那么广大，人口那么稀少，照艾奇逊的道理是不能设想会发生革命的，但是却早已发生了。
# §In Mongolia, where the land is so vast and the population so sparse, a revolution would be inconceivable according to Acheson's line of reasoning, yet it took place some time ago.