In order to get first-hand information about the Nanjing Massacre, Zhou Hexuan first contacted "Reader's Digest" and "Classmates" magazine. Because in the historical materials of later generations, these two publications were the first American media to report on the Nanjing Massacre.

However, Zhou Hexuan was disappointed because the two media outlets had very little information to offer. They have only a handful of photographs of the massacre, and the rest are textual descriptions, and the descriptions are extremely one-sided and fragmentary — the four shocking Holocaust documentaries have not yet been sent back to the United States.

In fact, this is easy to understand, because the Japanese invaders, while carrying out the massacre, were very jealous of Westerners, and forbade white people to walk around the city of Nanjing. Therefore, although there are reports of massacres in Europe and the United States, they are all told from a personal perspective, and there is no concept of the scale of the massacre.

At present, European and American countries have confirmed that there was a massacre of civilians in Nanjing, and it is estimated that there are about 10,000 innocent victims. There are also those who say thousands, and there are those who say tens of thousands, anyway, there are different opinions. No one dares to speculate that the number of victims has exceeded 50,000, let alone 300,000, because that is beyond the imagination of normal people.

Under the guidance of Reader's Digest, Zhou Hexuan began to contact churches around the world, because the media also got information about the Holocaust from the churches.

After visiting churches in several states in a row, Zhou Hexuan obtained a large number of first-hand information, mainly based on the text descriptions of letters, and the total number of photos did not exceed 100. Moreover, these photos were taken secretly, basically belonging to street massacre photos, and there are no tens of thousands of photos of mass murder.

In any case, this is evidence for future trials.

Zhou Hexuan not only obtained copies of the documents, but also asked the local church and the relatives and friends of the witnesses to sign each copy, so as to make these copies more credible and legally valid.

After visiting several states, Zhou Hexuan felt that his speed was too slow. So he sent a telegram to the embassy in the United States, asking the Chinese consulates in each state to help, so as to collect church information in more than 40 states in the United States, which has been sent to the embassy in Washington one after another.

The missionaries that Zhou Hexuan was going to visit this time were a pair of brothers, named Henry Pullitz and Frank Pritz.

The reason why they wanted to find these brothers was also instructed by the church - they wanted to set up an organization in New York to aid China, that is, "the United States does not participate in the Japanese Aggression Committee". In order to make this organization more influential, they also persuaded former US Secretary of State Stimson to serve as the honorary chairman of the committee, so this organization is also known as the "Stimson China Aid Committee".

The "Stimson China Aid Committee" was the largest aid organization in the United States in the early stage of China's all-out war of resistance against Japan. Through unremitting propaganda and efforts, they have gathered hundreds of thousands of people to write letters of protest to the U.S. government and American businessmen. The largest of these, at the same time, 102,000 Puritans demanded that the U.S. government embargo on Japan and push the U.S. boycott of Japanese goods to its peak.

In the face of the pressure of the entire American church, even Roosevelt and the big business groups could not withstand it, coupled with the change in the international situation, Roosevelt finally chose to abolish the US-Japan trade agreement.

At this moment, the "Stimson China Aid Committee" has not yet been formally established, but former Secretary of State Stimson has already agreed to be the honorary chairman, and even the headquarters office of the committee has been selected.

Speaking of Stimson, we have to mention "Stimsonism", that is, "non-recognitionism".

When Stimson was secretary of state, he was a great admirer of the United States' isolation diplomacy. With regard to Japan's launching of the September 18 Incident, Stimson neither recognized the legality of Japan's invasion of China, nor did he take any measures to stop it, but reached a secret understanding with Japan. In the decade that followed, Stimson's doctrine of non-recognition was adopted as the basic position of American diplomacy.

Now Stimson is out of office, and he is a white man, serving only as Roosevelt's special adviser. He began to advocate aid to China again, and tried his best to persuade Roosevelt to enter the war, but before the war between the United States and Japan broke out, this guy had already become the secretary of war of the United States.

Typical ass decides the head, and the big brother plays with it.

"Zhou, we're meeting again!" Stimson opened his arms and gave Zhou Hexuan a warm hug.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Stimson, thank you for running for China's War of Resistance." ”

That's right, Zhou Hexuan and Stimson know each other. The first time the two met was to watch Mei Lanfang's performance at Ford's Theatre, and they chatted for a while about Zhou Hexuan's "The Rise of a Great Power" (the related plot is in chapter 314).

Stimson smiled and introduced: "Zhou, this is Henry Pulitzer, this is Frank Pulize, they are all my old friends. ”

The Pritz brothers, who are in their 50s, are wearing church clothes and shake hands with Zhou Hexuan with serious faces.

"On behalf of the Chinese people, I thank the two gentlemen!" Zhou Hexuan said sincerely.

If the Pritz brothers had not integrated the Church's aid to China and continuously put pressure on the US government, I am afraid that the time of the US embargo against Japan would have been delayed, and the situation of China's War of Resistance would have become even more severe.

Henry Pullitz said: "Helping China is the way it should be. I worked as a teacher at Tsinghua University for seven years, and my younger brother Frank was also a teacher at Jinling University for five years. We lived in China for more than ten years, until the Japanese attacked Nanjing, and we still lived in China. China is our second home, and there are so many friends there, and I want to do my best for our friends in China. ”

Frank Pritz said angrily: "Zhou, you know what? I witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese in Nanjing! They rape women everywhere, kill civilians, and drive Westerners away like pigs, just because they are afraid that Westerners will expose their cruelty. I could only watch as the Japanese army snatched the last clothes of the poor in the cold winter, watched the Japanese army put down their arms and sought refuge, as well as countless innocent Chinese civilians, and watched them being taken away and used as a living target to practice bayonets! I remember very well that on that day, when the Japanese army broke into the international security zone, more than a dozen Chinese women knelt in front of me and begged me to help them. But I couldn't do anything, I wanted to reason with the Japanese army, but I was pushed to the ground by the Japanese army. The Japanese soldier, laughing, trampled on the American flag in front of me, and then taunted me with a bayonet with the Stars and Stripes, and snatched the poor women in front of me......"

As he spoke, Frank Pritz choked up, hot tears welling up in his eyes, and he sobbed: "I will never forget those scenes, dead bodies everywhere, blood everywhere. Even when I returned to the United States, I woke up countless times in my dreams, dreaming that those poor Chinese asked me for help, but I couldn't speak or act in my dreams, I was like an incompetent living dead! ”

Henry Pritz patted his younger brother on the shoulder and comforted: "Let go of sadness for the time being, let us do all the efforts that should be done for the living Chinese." ”