Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Congress of the United States: 总统先生，议长先生，美国国会各位议员：
The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress. The foreign policy and the national security of this country are involved. One aspect of the present situation, which I present to you at this time for your consideration and decision, concerns Greece and Turkey. 当今世界所面临局势的严重性，使我有必要出席国会联席会议。这关系到我国的外交政策和国家安全。我今天提请各位审议和决定的当前局势的一个方面，涉及希腊和土耳其。
The United States has received from the Greek Government an urgent appeal for financial and economic assistance. Preliminary reports from the American Economic Mission now in Greece and reports from the American Ambassador in Greece corroborate the statement of the Greek Government that assistance is imperative if Greece is to survive as a free nation. 美国已收到希腊政府关于财政和经济援助的紧急呼吁。目前在希腊的美国经济代表团的初步报告，以及美国驻希腊大使的报告，都证实了希腊政府的声明，即希腊若要作为一个自由国家生存下去，援助是刻不容缓的。
I do not believe that the American people and the Congress wish to turn a deaf ear to the appeal of the Greek Government. Greece is not a rich country. Lack of sufficient natural resources has always forced the Greek people to work hard to make both ends meet. Since 1940, this industrious, peace loving country has suffered invasion, four years of cruel enemy occupation, and bitter internal strife. 我不相信美国人民和国会会对希腊政府的呼吁充耳不闻。希腊不是一个富裕的国家。由于缺乏足够的自然资源，希腊人民一直不得不辛勤劳作才能维持生计。自1940年以来，这个勤劳、热爱和平的国家遭受了入侵、四年残酷的敌军占领，以及激烈的内部冲突。
When forces of liberation entered Greece they found that the retreating Germans had destroyed virtually all the railways, roads, port facilities, communications, and merchant marine. More than a thousand villages had been burned. Eighty-five percent of the children were tubercular. Livestock, poultry, and draft animals had almost disappeared. Inflation had wiped out practically all savings. As a result of these tragic conditions, a militant minority, exploiting human want and misery, was able to create political chaos which, until now, has made economic recovery impossible. 当解放力量进入希腊时，他们发现撤退的德军几乎摧毁了所有的铁路、公路、港口设施、通讯系统和商船队。一千多个村庄被焚毁。百分之八十五的儿童患有结核病。牲畜、家禽和役畜几乎绝迹。通货膨胀几乎使所有储蓄化为乌有。由于这些悲惨的状况，一个好战的少数派利用人类的匮乏和苦难，得以制造政治混乱，直到目前为止，这种混乱使经济复苏成为不可能。
Greece is today without funds to finance the importation of those goods which are essential to bare subsistence. Under these circumstances, the people of Greece cannot make progress in solving their problems of reconstruction. Greece is in desperate need of financial and economic assistance to enable it to resume purchases of food, clothing, fuel, and seeds. These are indispensable for the subsistence of its people and are obtainable only from abroad. Greece must have help to import the goods necessary to restore internal order and security, so essential for economic and political recovery. 希腊今天没有资金进口那些维持基本生存所必需的物资。在这种情况下，希腊人民无法在解决重建问题方面取得进展。希腊迫切需要财政和经济援助，使其能够重新购买食品、衣物、燃料和种子。这些都是其人民维持生存所不可或缺的，而且只能从国外获得。希腊必须获得帮助，进口恢复内部秩序和安全所必需的物资，这对经济和政治复苏至关重要。
The Greek Government has also asked for the assistance of experienced American administrators, economists, and technicians to insure that the financial and other aid given to Greece shall be used effectively in creating a stable and self-sustaining economy and in improving its public administration. 希腊政府还请求派遣有经验的美国行政人员、经济学家和技术人员提供援助，以确保给予希腊的财政和其他援助能够有效地用于建立一个稳定和自给自足的经济，并改善其公共行政。
The very existence of the Greek state is today threatened by the terrorist activities of several thousand armed men, led by Communists, who defy the government's authority at a number of points, particularly along the northern boundaries. A Commission appointed by the United Nations security Council is at present investigating disturbed conditions in northern Greece and alleged border violations along the frontiers between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia on the other. 今天，希腊国家的生存本身正受到数千名武装人员的恐怖活动的威胁，这些人由共产党人领导，在许多地点，特别是沿北部边界，违抗政府的权威。联合国安全理事会任命的一个委员会目前正在调查希腊北部的骚乱状况，以及据称希腊与阿尔巴尼亚、保加利亚和南斯拉夫之间边界遭到侵犯的情况。
Meanwhile, the Greek Government is unable to cope with the situation. The Greek army is small and poorly equipped. It needs supplies and equipment if it is to restore authority of the government throughout Greek territory. Greece must have assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy. 与此同时，希腊政府无力应对这一局势。希腊军队规模小，装备差。如果要在整个希腊领土上恢复政府的权威，它需要补给和装备。希腊若要成为一个自给自足和有自尊的民主国家，就必须获得援助。
The United States must supply this assistance. We have already extended to Greece certain types of relief and economic aid. But these are inadequate. There is no other country to which democratic Greece can turn. No other nation is willing and able to provide the necessary support for a democratic Greek government. 美国必须提供这种援助。我们已经向希腊提供了某些类型的救济和经济援助。但这些是不够的。民主的希腊没有其他国家可以求助。没有任何其他国家愿意并能够为民主的希腊政府提供必要的支持。
The British Government, which has been helping Greece, can give no further financial or economic aid after March 31st. Great Britain finds itself under the necessity of reducing or liquidating its commitments in several parts of the world, including Greece. 一直在帮助希腊的英国政府，在3月31日之后无法再提供进一步的财政或经济援助。英国发现自己有必要减少或清算其在世界若干地区的承诺，包括希腊在内。
We have considered how the United Nations might assist in this crisis. But the situation is an urgent one, requiring immediate action, and the United Nations and its related organizations are not in a position to extend help of the kind that is required. 我们已经考虑过联合国如何能在这场危机中提供帮助。但局势紧迫，需要立即采取行动，而联合国及其相关机构目前无法提供所需的那种帮助。
It is important to note that the Greek Government has asked for our aid in utilizing effectively the financial and other assistance we may give to Greece, and in improving its public administration. It is of the utmost importance that we supervise the use of any funds made available to Greece in such a manner that each dollar spent will count toward making Greece self-supporting, and will help to build an economy in which a healthy democracy can flourish. 需要指出的是，希腊政府请求我们帮助其有效利用我们可能给予希腊的财政和其他援助，并改善其公共行政。至关重要的是，我们要以这样一种方式监督提供给希腊的任何资金的使用，即每一美元的支出都应有助于使希腊实现自给自足，并有助于建设一个健康的民主能够蓬勃发展的经济。
No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected. The Government of Greece is not perfect. Nevertheless it represents eighty-five percent of the members of the Greek Parliament who were chosen in an election last year. Foreign observers, including 692 Americans, considered this election to be a fair expression of the views of the Greek people. 没有任何政府是完美的。然而，民主制度的主要优点之一是，它的缺陷总是显而易见的，并且可以通过民主程序指出并加以纠正。希腊政府并不完美。尽管如此，它代表了去年选举中选出的希腊议会议员的百分之八十五。包括692名美国人在内的外国观察员认为，这次选举公正地表达了希腊人民的意见。
The Greek Government has been operating in an atmosphere of chaos and extremism. It has made mistakes. The extension of aid by this country does not mean that the United States condones everything that the Greek Government has done or will do. We have condemned in the past, and we condemn now, extremist measures of the right or the left. We have in the past advised tolerance, and we advise tolerance now. 希腊政府一直在混乱和极端主义的氛围中运作。它犯过错误。我国提供援助并不意味着美国纵容希腊政府已经做过或将要做的一切。我们过去谴责过，现在也谴责左右两翼的极端主义措施。我们过去建议过容忍，现在也建议容忍。
Greece's neighbor, Turkey, also deserves our attention. The future of Turkey, as an independent and economically sound state, is clearly no less important to the freedom-loving peoples of the world than the future of Greece. The circumstances in which Turkey finds itself today are considerably different from those of Greece. Turkey has been spared the disasters that have beset Greece. And during the war, the United States and Great Britain furnished Turkey with material aid. 希腊的邻国土耳其也值得我们关注。作为一个独立和经济健全的国家，土耳其的未来对世界热爱自由的人民来说，其重要性显然不亚于希腊的未来。土耳其今天所处的情况与希腊大不相同。土耳其得以幸免于困扰希腊的那些灾难。在战争期间，美国和英国向土耳其提供了物资援助。
Nevertheless, Turkey now needs our support. Since the war, Turkey has sought additional financial assistance from Great Britain and the United States for the purpose of effecting that modernization necessary for the maintenance of its national integrity. That integrity is essential to the preservation of order in the Middle East. 然而，土耳其现在需要我们的支持。自战争结束以来，土耳其一直在向英国和美国寻求额外的财政援助，以实现维护其国家完整所必需的现代化。这种完整对于维护中东的秩序至关重要。
The British government has informed us that, owing to its own difficulties, it can no longer extend financial or economic aid to Turkey. As in the case of Greece, if Turkey is to have the assistance it needs, the United States must supply it. We are the only country able to provide that help. 英国政府已通知我们，由于其自身的困难，它无法再向土耳其提供财政或经济援助。正如希腊的情况一样，如果土耳其要获得它所需的援助，美国必须提供。我们是唯一能够提供这种帮助的国家。
I am fully aware of the broad implications involved if the United States extends assistance to Greece and Turkey, and I shall discuss these implications with you at this time. One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. This was a fundamental issue in the war with Germany and Japan. Our victory was won over countries which sought to impose their will, and their way of life, upon other nations. 我完全清楚，如果美国向希腊和土耳其提供援助，将会涉及广泛的影响，我现在将与各位讨论这些影响。美国外交政策的主要目标之一，是创造条件，使我们和其他国家能够在不受胁迫的情况下找出一种生活方式。这是与德国和日本的战争中的一个根本问题。我们的胜利是战胜了那些企图将自己的意志和生活方式强加给其他国家的国家。
To ensure the peaceful development of nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members. 为了确保各国在不受胁迫的情况下和平发展，美国率先建立了联合国。联合国的宗旨是使所有会员国都有可能获得持久的自由和独立。
We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed upon free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace, and hence the security of the United States. 然而，除非我们愿意帮助自由人民维护其自由制度和国家完整，抵抗企图将极权政权强加于他们的侵略运动，否则我们将无法实现我们的目标。这不过是坦率地承认，通过直接或间接侵略强加给自由人民的极权政权，破坏了国际和平的基础，从而也破坏了美国的安全。
The peoples of a number of countries of the world have recently had totalitarian regimes forced upon them against their will. The Government of the United States has made frequent protests against coercion and intimidation in violation of the Yalta agreement in Poland, Rumania, and Bulgaria. I must also state that in a number of other countries there have been similar developments. 世界上许多国家的人民最近在违背其意愿的情况下被强加了极权政权。美国政府多次抗议在波兰、罗马尼亚和保加利亚发生的违反雅尔塔协定的胁迫和恐吓行为。我还必须指出，在其他一些国家也发生了类似的事态发展。
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one. 在当今世界历史的时刻，几乎每个国家都必须在不同的生活方式之间做出选择。这种选择往往不是自由的。
One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression. The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms. 一种生活方式基于多数人的意志，其特点是自由制度、代议制政府、自由选举、保障个人自由、言论和宗教自由，以及免于政治压迫。第二种生活方式基于少数人强加给多数人的意志。它依靠恐怖和压迫、受控制的报刊和广播、被操纵的选举，以及对个人自由的压制。
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. 我认为，美国的政策必须是支持自由人民，他们正在抵抗少数武装集团或外来压力企图强加的奴役。
I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. 我认为，我们必须帮助自由人民以他们自己的方式决定自己的命运。
I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. 我认为，我们的帮助应主要通过经济和财政援助，这对经济稳定和有秩序的政治进程至关重要。
The world is not static, and the status quo is not sacred. But we cannot allow changes in the status quo in violation of the Charter of the United Nations by such methods as coercion, or by such subterfuges as political infiltration. In helping free and independent nations to maintain their freedom, the United States will be giving effect to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. 世界不是静止不变的，现状也不是神圣不可侵犯的。但是，我们不能允许以胁迫手段或政治渗透等诡计，违反《联合国宪章》来改变现状。在帮助自由和独立的国家维护其自由时，美国将使《联合国宪章》的各项原则生效。
It is necessary only to glance at a map to realize that the survival and integrity of the Greek nation are of grave importance in a much wider situation. If Greece should fall under the control of an armed minority, the effect upon its neighbor, Turkey, would be immediate and serious. Confusion and disorder might well spread throughout the entire Middle East. 只需看一眼地图就会意识到，希腊民族的生存和完整在更广泛的局势中具有极其重要的意义。如果希腊落入武装少数派的控制之下，对其邻国土耳其的影响将是直接而严重的。混乱和无序很可能会蔓延到整个中东。
Moreover, the disappearance of Greece as an independent state would have a profound effect upon those countries in Europe whose peoples are struggling against great difficulties to maintain their freedoms and their independence while they repair the damages of war. 此外，希腊作为一个独立国家的消失，将对欧洲那些正在修复战争创伤的同时，努力维护其自由和独立、克服巨大困难的各国人民产生深远的影响。
It would be an unspeakable tragedy if these countries, which have struggled so long against overwhelming odds, should lose that victory for which they sacrificed so much. Collapse of free institutions and loss of independence would be disastrous not only for them but for the world. Discouragement and possibly failure would quickly be the lot of neighboring peoples striving to maintain their freedom and independence. 如果这些长期以来在巨大的逆境中艰苦奋斗的国家，竟然失去了他们为之付出巨大牺牲才赢得的胜利，那将是一场无法形容的悲剧。自由制度的崩溃和独立的丧失，不仅对他们，而且对全世界都将是灾难性的。对于那些努力维护自由和独立的邻国人民来说，沮丧乃至失败很快就会成为他们的命运。
Should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far reaching to the West as well as to the East. 如果我们在这个决定性的时刻未能援助希腊和土耳其，其影响对西方和东方都将是深远的。
We must take immediate and resolute action. I therefore ask the Congress to provide authority for assistance to Greece and Turkey in the amount of $400,000,000 for the period ending June 30, 1948. In requesting these funds, I have taken into consideration the maximum amount of relief assistance which would be furnished to Greece out of the $350,000,000 which I recently requested that the Congress authorize for the prevention of starvation and suffering in countries devastated by the war. 我们必须立即采取果断行动。因此，我请求国会授权在截至1948年6月30日的期间内，向希腊和土耳其提供总额为四亿美元的援助。在请求这笔资金时，我已经考虑到了从我最近请求国会授权的、用于防止战争受灾国家饥饿和苦难的三亿五千万美元中，可提供给希腊的最高救济援助额。
In addition to funds, I ask the Congress to authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel to Greece and Turkey, at the request of those countries, to assist in the tasks of reconstruction, and for the purpose of supervising the use of such financial and material assistance as may be furnished. 除资金外，我还请求国会授权应希腊和土耳其两国的请求，向两国派遣美国文职和军事人员，协助重建工作，并监督可能提供的财政和物资援助的使用情况。
I recommend that authority also be provided for the instruction and training of selected Greek and Turkish personnel. Finally, I ask that the Congress provide authority which will permit the speediest and most effective use, in terms of needed commodities, supplies, and equipment, of such funds as may be authorized. 我建议还授权对选定的希腊和土耳其人员进行指导和培训。最后，我请求国会授予权限，以便在需要的商品、物资和装备方面，能够最迅速、最有效地使用可能批准的资金。
If further funds, or further authority, should be needed for the purposes indicated in this message, I shall not hesitate to bring the situation before the Congress. On this subject the Executive and Legislative branches of the Government must work together. 如果为实现本文中所述各项目的而需要更多资金或更多权限，我将毫不犹豫地将情况提交国会。在这个问题上，政府的行政部门和立法部门必须通力合作。
This is a serious course upon which we embark. I would not recommend it except that the alternative is much more serious. The United States contributed $341,000,000,000 toward winning World War II. This is an investment in world freedom and world peace. The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than 1 tenth of 1 percent of this investment. It is only common sense that we should safeguard this investment and make sure that it was not in vain. 这是我们所走上的一条艰难的道路。若非选择另一条道路后果更为严重，我是不会提出这项建议的。美国为赢得第二次世界大战贡献了三千四百一十亿美元。这是对世界自由与和平的一项投资。我建议给予希腊和土耳其的援助，仅相当于这项投资的千分之一多一点。我们应当保护这项投资，确保它没有白费，这只是常识而已。
The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. 极权政权的种子是由苦难和匮乏滋养的。它们在贫穷和纷争的邪恶土壤中传播和生长。当一个民族对更美好生活的希望破灭时，这些种子就会茁壮成长。
We must keep that hope alive. 我们必须让这种希望永存。
The free peoples of the world look to us for support in maintaining their freedoms. If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world. And we shall surely endanger the welfare of this nation. 世界自由人民期待我们支持他们维护自由。如果我们在领导方面犹豫不决，我们就可能危及世界和平。而且我们肯定会危及本国的福祉。
Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events. 事态的迅速发展已经将重大的责任加在我们身上。
I am confident that the Congress will face these responsibilities squarely. 我深信，国会将正视这些责任。