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(1) When a Chinese scholar boarded a flight for Honolulu at the end of August, he was carrying precious cargo: a long-hunted fou
(1) When a Chinese scholar boarded a flight for Honolulu at the end of August, he was carrying precious cargo: a long-hunted fou
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2022-05-02
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(1) When a Chinese scholar boarded a flight for Honolulu at the end of August, he was carrying precious cargo: a long-hunted fountain pen that once belonged to Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz.
(2) On the deck of the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay 70 years ago, Adm. Nimitz took two pens from his pocket and signed Japan’s surrender, putting a formal end to World War II. One of them—a Parker fountain pen given to Adm. Nimitz by a friend and California banker named Y.C. Woo—soon vanished.
(3) The missing Parker pen’s journey from the admiral’s pocket to a Chinese museum and now temporarily back to the U.S. culminates a four year quest by an implausible cast of characters, including Mr. Woo’s grandson and a former attorney general of Hawaii.
(4) Tracking the pen down and returning it to the USS Missouri has proved a mission in transcending the politics that define U.S-China relations today.
(5) "The stroke of these pens ended the war," said Mike Weidenbach, curator of the USS Missouri memorial in Honolulu.
(6) Seven decades after World War II’s close, the U.S. and China still diverge over how to commemorate it. This week, Beijing is hosting a massive military parade to mark the anniversary of the war’s end. Chinese state television has been filled with reminders of the wartime atrocities of Japan, now a U.S. ally.
(7) "With all these other things going on out there that are negative, here’s an opportunity to look at friendship and comradeship of two nations that fought side by side in World War II," said Michael Lilly, the former Hawaii attorney general, who helped negotiate with China to bring the Parker pen to the U.S.
(8) The pen’s journey began in another era. Following Japan’s invasion of China, the Woo family fled Shanghai in 1940, said Y. C. Woo’s grandson, Paul Woo, who began searching for the pen in 2011. They immigrated to San Francisco, where Y.C. Woo served as managing director of Bank of Canton.
(9) The Woo family then moved to Berkeley, becoming neighbors with Adm. Nimitz and his wife. The two couples developed a close friendship— relationship documented by Adm. Nimitz’s biographer, naval historian E. B. Potter.
(10) As the Pacific war closed in on Japan during the summer of 1945, Mr. Woo gave the Parker pen to Adm. Nimitz as a gift, according to Mr. Woo’s grandson and the biography. Adm. Nimitz signed two copies of the Japanese surrender document on Sept. 2,1945, one with an old favourite pen and the other with Mr. Woo’s gift.
(11) With the war finally finished, the admiral returned the Parker pen to Mr. Woo. The other one is kept at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Adm. Nimitz was one among several U.S. officials to sign the surrender documents that day; another was Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
(12) Back in China, Mr. Woo was related to Chiang Kai-shek through marriage, and later sent him the Parker pen as a gift, according to Paul Woo. It remains unclear what happened to the pen as Chiang retreated from their base in Nanjing, eventually fleeing to Taiwan.
(13) Paul Woo—who is the director of career services at the University of Chicago Law School—recalls his grandfather’s friendship with Adm. Nimitz, and has memories of visiting the retired admiral’s home as a child. When he began the search for the pen, he assumed it was buried away somewhere in Taiwan.
(14) Mr. Woo sought help from Taiwanese authorities in Chicago. But he learned over time the pen had never reached Taiwan. As the hunt continued, it became clear the missing Parker pen was, in fact, at a museum in Nanjing. Others began hearing about Paul Woo’s search.
(15) "I said, ’OK, how do we get the pen here?’“, said Mr. Lilly, the former attorney general who also serves as a founding director of the USS Missouri Memorial Association.
(16) The organization aimed for a large celebration to mark the 70th anniversary of the war’s conclusion, and worked with urgency to bring wartime relics back to the ship.
(17) About 20 veterans, including some aboard the USS Missouri, were set to attend a ceremony on Wednesday, according to the group.
(18) "We realized we don’t have any more time," said Mr. Weidenbach. "The 70th is going to be last time that World War II veterans of any number are still going to be alive."
(19) Mr. Lilly wrote the Chinese Embassy in Washington about bringing the pen to Hawaii. After a few weeks, an official there responded positively, he said. A loan agreement with the Nanjing museum was eventually reached.
(20) The Nanjing museum official who carried the pen from China, Ouyang Zongjun, said it was a reminder of U.S.-China wartime cooperation and confirmed details of its history.
(21) For Mr. Woo, tracking down the pen has been a deeply personal journey, and a chance to learn details of his immigrant family’s history that were seldom discussed when he was young.
(22) "My family is very, very humble," he said. "I don’t think anyone in the family knew too much until after grandfather died."
(23) Mr. Woo today sees the pen as a symbol of peace that "trumps questions of nationalism," he said. Despite his grandfather’s ties to U.S. and to the Chiang government, China remains the Parker pen’s rightful home today, he said.
(24) "Maybe that’s just," said Mr. Woo, after reflecting on China’s millions of wartime casualties. "It belongs to all Chinese regardless of whether you’re in Taiwan or in the mainland."
Where was the surrender of Japan signed?
选项
A、In Tokyo.
B、At USS Missouri.
C、In Hong Kong.
D、At USS Arizona.
答案
B
解析
细节题。日本投降签字的地点是在美国海军密苏里号战舰上,从文章第二段可以查到信息。
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