De Lôme Letter (1898)
Citation: Letter from Senor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme to Senor Don Jose Canelejas; 1898; Notes from Foreign Missions, 1789 - 1906; General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.
引文：Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme 先生致 Don Jose Canelejas 先生的信； 1898；外国使团的笔记，1789 年至 1906 年；国务院综合记录，记录组 59；国家档案馆，位于马里兰州大学公园市。
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This letter, written by the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd.
这封信由西班牙驻美国大使恩里克·杜普伊·德洛姆撰写，批评美国总统威廉·麦金莱，称他软弱且只关心赢得民众的支持。
Publication of the letter helped generate public support for a war with Spain over the issue of independence for the Spanish colony of Cuba.
这封信的发表有助于赢得公众对因西班牙殖民地古巴独立问题与西班牙开战的支持。
Señor Don Enrigue Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, wrote this letter to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain.
西班牙驻美国大使唐·恩里格·杜普伊·德洛姆先生致函西班牙外交部长唐·何塞·卡内莱哈斯。
The note reveals de Lôme’s opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and President McKinley’s diplomacy.
该照会揭示了德洛姆对西班牙介入古巴和麦金莱总统外交的看法。
Cuban revolutionaries intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the Hearst press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in the New York Journal .
古巴革命者截获了这封信，并将其交给赫斯特出版社，该出版社于 1898 年 2 月 9 日在《纽约日报》上发表了这封信。
De Lôme’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped fuel animosity and readiness for war in the United States.
德洛姆对麦金莱的不恭敬言论助长了美国的敌意和战争准备。
Two months later, on April 11, 1898, McKinley delivered a war message to Congress asking for "forcible intervention" by the United States to establish peace in Cuba.
两个月后，即 1898 年 4 月 11 日，麦金莱向国会发出战争信息，要求美国“强制干预”以在古巴建立和平。
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(Translation of letter written by Senor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme to Senor Don José Canelejas.)
（Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme 先生写给 Don José Canelejas 先生的信的翻译。）
My distinguished and dear friend: You have no reason to ask my excuses for not having written to me, I ought also to have written to you but I have put off doing so because overwhelmed with work and nous sommes quittes.
我尊敬的亲爱的朋友：您没有理由问我没有给我写信的借口，我也应该给您写信，但我推迟了这样做，因为我被工作和精神所压垮了。
The situation here remains the same.
这里的情况保持不变。
Everything depends on the political and military outcome in Cuba.
一切都取决于古巴的政治和军事结果。
The prologue of all this, in this second stage (phase) of the war, will end the day when the colonial cabinet shall be appointed and we shall be relieved in the eyes of this country of a part of the responsibility for what is happening in Cuba while the Cubans, whom these people think so immaculate, will have to assume it.
在战争的第二阶段，所有这一切的序幕将在殖民内阁任命的那一天结束，在这个国家的眼中，我们将免除对古巴发生的事情的部分责任，而这些人认为如此完美的古巴人将不得不承担这一责任。
Until then, nothing can be clearly seen, and I regard it as a waste of time and progress, by a wrong road, to be sending emissaries to the rebel camp, or to negotiate with the autonomists who have as yet no legal standing, or to try to ascertain the intentions and plans of this government.
在那之前，什么都看不清楚，我认为向叛军阵营派遣使者，或与尚无合法地位的自治主义者谈判，或试图查明本届政府的意图和计划，都是浪费时间和进步，走错了路。
The (Cuban) refugees will keep on returning one by one and as they do so will make their way into the sheep-fold, while the leaders in the field will gradually come back.
（古巴）难民将继续一一返回，并在他们这样做时进入羊圈，而现场的领导人将逐渐返回。
Neither the one nor the other class had the courage to leave in a body and they will not be brave enough to return in a body.
无论是一类还是另一类，都没有勇气以肉身离开，也没有勇气以肉身回来。
The Message has been a disillusionment to the insurgents who expected something different; but I regard it as bad (for us).
对于那些期待有所不同的叛乱分子来说，这一消息让他们的幻想破灭了。但我认为这（对我们来说）很糟糕。
Besides the ingrained and inevitable bluntness (grosería) with which is repeated all that the press and public opinion in Spain have said about Weyler, it once more shows what McKinley is, weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd besides being a would-be politician (politicastro) who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.
西班牙媒体和公众舆论对韦勒的评价，除了重复出现的根深蒂固且不可避免的直率（grosería）外，它再次表明麦金莱是一个软弱的人，一个争取群众钦佩的人，同时也是一个试图为自己敞开大门，同时与党内的沙文保持良好关系的潜在政治家（politicastro）。
Nevertheless, whether the practical results of it (the Message) are to be injurious and adverse depends only upon ourselves.
然而，它（讯息）的实际结果是否有害和不利仅取决于我们自己。
I am entirely of your opinions; without a military end of the matter nothing will be accomplished in Cuba, and without a military and political settlement there will always be the danger of encouragement being give to the insurgents, by a part of the public opinion if not by the government.
我完全同意你的意见；如果没有军事手段解决这个问题，古巴将一事无成；如果没有军事和政治解决方案，就永远存在鼓励叛乱分子的危险，即使不是政府，也可能是部分公众舆论。
I do not think sufficient attention has been paid to the part England is playing.
我认为英格兰队所扮演的角色没有得到足够的重视。
Nearly all the newspaper rabble that swarms in your hotels are Englishmen, and while writing for the Journal they are also correspondents of the most influential journals and reviews of London.
几乎所有涌入酒店的报纸乌合之众都是英国人，在为《华尔街日报》撰稿的同时，他们也是伦敦最有影响力的期刊和评论的记者。
It has been so ever since this thing began.
自从这件事开始以来就是如此。
As I look at it, England’s only object is that the Americans should amuse themselves with us and leave her alone, and if there should be a war, that would the better stave off the conflict which she dreads but which will never come about.
在我看来，英国唯一的目标是美国人应该和我们一起娱乐，不要打扰她，如果发生战争，那会更好地避免她害怕但永远不会发生的冲突。
It would be very advantageous to take up, even if only for effect, the question of commercial relations and to have a man of some prominence sent hither, in order that I may make use of him here to carry on a propaganda among the seantors and others in opposition to the Junta and to try to win over the refugees.
处理商业关系问题，即使只是为了效果，也是非常有利的，并派一位颇有声望的人到这里来，这样我就可以利用他在这里向议员和其他反对军政府的人进行宣传，并试图争取难民。
So, Amblard is coming.
所以，安布拉德来了。
I think he devotes himself too much to petty politics, and we have got to do something very big or we shall fail.
我认为他过于关注琐碎的政治，而我们必须做一些非常大的事情，否则我们就会失败。
Adela returns your greeting, and we all trust that next year you may be a messenger of peace and take it as a Christmas gift to poor Spain.
阿德拉回报了您的问候，我们都相信明年您可能会成为和平使者，并将其作为圣诞礼物送给贫穷的西班牙。
Ever your attached friend and servant, ENRIQUE DUPUY de LÔME.
永远是您挚爱的朋友和仆人，ENRIQUE DUPUY de LÔME。