穿越旅行II：重圓西部夢（1）: 引子

1941年九月，歲歲重陽，今有重陽。
離海倫的第一次西部之旅，又有三年了。但這時的世界，已是戰火紛飛，硝煙四起。美國的平靜，也還隻乘下最後的幾個月了。

九月大事錄：
9/1: 羅斯福發表演說，以一切資源打敗納粹德國。
9/4：德國潛艇攻擊美軍艦
9/6： 日美為亞太和平做最後的努力。和談的破裂導致了年底太平洋戰爭的爆發。
9/11：羅斯福向國會要7000億的租借法案，向抗戰各國援助
9/18: 蔣介石發表滿洲事變10年演講，表示抗戰到底。
9/21：大西洋憲章發表
9/24：自由法國建立
9/30：丘吉爾向國會發表戰爭演講

1 September 1941	President Roosevelt pledged every effort to defeat   Germany.	(". . . our fundamental rights-including the rights   of labor-are threatened by Hitler's violent attempt to rule the world." Bulletin,   No. 115, p. 177. Cf. June 20, supra.)
4 September 1941	German submarine tried to torpedo American destroyer Greer.	("'. . . en route to Iceland with mail'. . . . She is   similar to the fifty ships which were traded to the British Navy for leases   of naval and air bases in British possessions. She was painted a dark gray   like most war vessels. Her flag might, therefore, be the only thing to   distinguish her from the ships of her type which are hunting submarines for   the British Navy." Times, Sept. 5, 1941, pp. 1, 4.)
6 September 1941	Japan subscribed to the four principles of President   Roosevelt [See April 16, supra] and presented proposals for a basis of   discussion.	(Japan, Vol. II, p. 604. Cf. Sept. 3, supra.   "The Prime Minister hopes that as a result of the commitments which the   Japanese Government is prepared to assume . . . a rational basis has been established   for a meeting between the President and himself." Peace, pp. 733,   735 f.)
10 September 1941	Germans imposed martial law on Oslo.	(Trade unions had planned a general strike. Times,   Sept. 11, 1941, p. 1.)
11 September 1941	President Roosevelt submitted report on lend-lease   $7,000,000,000 appropriation to Congress.	(Bulletin, Vol. V, No. 122, pp. 311 f. Cf. Mar. 27,   supra.)
18 September 1941	CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S MESSAGE TO NATION ON THE TENTH   ANNIVERSARY OF THE MOUKDEN INCIDENT	"It is just a decade since the Japanese occupied our   northeastern city of Moukden and our fellow countrymen in Manchuria are as   yet not delivered from the hellish sufferings the enemy invasion has brought   upon them. " See   doc.
24 September 1941	Free French National Council announced.	(With political aims: recognition as government in exile. Times,   Sept. 24, 1941, p. 5. Rice, pp. 152 f.)
24 September 1941	INTER-ALLIED COUNCIL STATEMENT ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE   ATLANTIC CHARTER	London. " Adherence to the principles set forth in   the Roosevelt-Churchill Declarations by the governments allied with Great   Britain was formally declared at the second meeting of the Inter-Allied   Council, held in London on September 24, 1941." See doc.
25 September 1941	Italy reoccupied demilitarized zone in Croatia.	(To secure her Adriatic flank. Times, Sept. 26,   1941, p. 1. Cf. May 18, supra.).
27 September 1941	DOCUMENT HANDED BY THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR (NOMURA) TO THE   SECRETARY OF STATE	"The Governments of Japan and of the United States   accept joint responsibility for the initiation and conclusion of a general   agree­ment of understanding as expressed in a joint declaration for the   resumption of traditional friendly relations." See doc.
29 September 1941	United States-British missions conferred in Moscow.	(To determine Russian defense needs. Bulletin, Vol.   V, No. 124, p. 364.)
30 September 1941	PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S REVIEW OF THE WAR TO   THE HOUSE OF COMMONS	"It seems likely now that we shall bring in several   million tons more than the import total which I mentioned in private to the   House earlier in the year, which total was itself sufficient to keep us   going. We are now within measurable distance of the immense flow of American   new building, to which, together with our own construction, we look to carry   us through and on progressively till the end of the war." See doc.