老爸的舊時歲月
中文大學出版社寄來《粵語的政治》一書，隨手翻到〈國語運動與大戰前後的香港電影業〉一文，忽然看到老爸的名字。文章講1930年代有聲電影日漸流行，而中央開始推廣國語運動，想要禁制粵語片，香港就在1935年發起「粵語片救亡運動」，文章寫：「1936年11月，在粵片界名人李化……等號召下，300餘位粵片影人聚集於香港一酒家……發表聲明」。李化就是我爸爸。文章又記載，1937年7月，香港華南電影協會派代表五人到南京請願緩禁粵語片。爸爸也是五人之一。幾經爭取，獲南京當局決定把禁拍粵語片期限延緩三年。隨後南京遭日軍進襲，禁粵片之事也就不了了之。
我生於1936年，出生不久，爸爸就為粵語片的整體權益而奔走忙碌，那年他27歲。其後一家人在南京上海北平等地輾轉。我少年時期，家庭處於父與母的戰爭中。父母離異後，他有過幾個女人，而他四個子女就只有我一直在香港跟着他。我們算是蠻近的，但上述這些事從沒有聽他說過。直到我39歲那年他離世，他給我的印象是拍過不少電影，但似乎沒有傳世之作。他頗有名，但我沒有對他的事業很尊敬。
後來我幫在北京的叔叔聯繫在香港出了本自傳，書中記載叔叔少年時代，是我老爸安排他輾轉奔赴延安參加中共革命的。老爸那時就左傾。而直到去世前，他仍屬於香港電影界的左派。但他從來沒有得到中共的真正信任，一度還被大陸刊物誣為國民黨特務。
讀到《粵語的政治》，是農曆八月初十。正巧是老爸冥誕。如果我在他生前知道多些書中講他的事，我們會有更多話題，而他的晚年也更快樂些吧。但一切追不回來了。
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蘋論：自由的秘密是勇氣
安格拉．默克爾（Angela Merkel）擔任德國總理，至今已九年了。她是德國歷史上首位女性總理，也是兩德統一後首位出身前東德地區的聯邦總理。2011年，她獲頒授美國總統自由勳章，在國宴餐單上寫着：「默克爾博士是自由勝利的象徵，因為她是第一位，在統一德國的總理府上任職的德東人。」去年，她領導的基民黨獲選連任，讓她成為德國在二戰後，首位三連任的總理。十二年任期將超越戴卓爾夫人的十一年半，成為歐洲任期最長的女性領導人。
近日讀到台灣繙譯柯內留斯（Stefan Kornelius）著的《默克爾傳》，從默克爾對重要國際事件的應對，深入她的內心世界，其中一節的題目是：「自由是她內心的主旋律」。由於她在不自由的東德生活了35年，而在統一後的德國得到自由發展，因而能深刻體會自由的可貴，以及對失去自由的時刻警惕。
中國近二三十年民窮國富的經濟發展，使許多西方國家都不得不「睇錢份上」，放棄對自由人權的堅持，而謀求與中國發展關係的經濟實惠。德國與中國的貿易總額達1,500億歐元，對中國的外銷每年有雙位數成長，有5,000家德國企業活躍於中國市場，除歐盟外，中國是德國最大的貿易夥伴。但默克爾沒有忘記中國的人權。她曾會見達賴喇嘛，在中國一輪抗議與杯葛後，雖然德國總理府仍繼續與西藏宗教領袖對話，但中國再沒有質問了。她每次訪問中國都留下警告：「你們治理得很好，但人民將會要求自由。」
她有一句名言：「我在專制政權下生活了35年，它與我的過去密不可分，若有人說這不會再發生了，我總是存疑。」她一直擔心亞洲國家的經濟成長，而導致優質政治文化的歐洲失去競爭力。她抱怨歐盟的決策過程，難以置信的漫長諮商、決定、不採納、再諮商，「而於此同時，地球另一端的獨裁機器，已然準備好吃下這個世界了」。香港民主派的佔中諮商，不是也一直輸給不須諮商、一元化領導的獨裁機器嗎？
但反覆諮商，正是自由的代價。而默克爾指出「沒有自由便甚麼也不是」，她說：「一個讓人無法自由發展的制度，既不自由又不公正。」「唯有自我實現的人，才是自由的人。」「自由使個人能樂在工作、追求發展、樂見異同、拒絕齊頭平等，並對自己負責。」
2005年，丹麥刊登嘲諷穆罕默德的漫畫，引起全球穆斯林民眾的抗議，部份極端主義分子更作出恐怖威脅。冒着被恐嚇的風險，默克爾2010年頒發鼓勵言論自由的「媒體獎」給丹麥漫畫家韋斯特伽德（Kurt Westergaard），並以「自由的秘密是勇氣」為題發表演說。她認為自由包含責任、包容與勇氣。相信自己的價值判斷，對自己的一切言行負責，但最重要的是，為堅持自己的價值觀、忠於自己而有勇氣承擔任何由此而須付出的代價。
歐債危機爆發時，默克爾在歐盟果斷主導紓困案，嚴格要求債務國必須削減預算赤字及社會福利，並由歐盟執委會評估成效，以交換德國紓困貸款。其強硬態度被部份希臘人稱為「希特勒再世」，西班牙和希臘到處有反德示威，民眾踐踏默克爾像，但幾年下來，希臘留在歐元區，歐盟為紓困埋單，西班牙等國力行經濟和金融改革，默克爾的強硬鞏固了歐元地位。
作為物理學家的默克爾，原來堅信核能安全，但在三一一福島核電事故後三天，她推遲實施延長核電壽命的條例，更要求全德17座核電廠進行安全檢驗，並暫時關閉其中七座老舊反應堆，更決定2022年前逐步讓核電廠全面除役。使德國成為全球第一個宣佈淘汰核能的國家，進入「再生能源時代」。德國為此而推高了家庭和工業電費，引發工商界和人民反彈，對默克爾構成政治風險。不過，在接下來的2013年大選中，她所屬政黨卻獲得選民壓倒性支持。
這些施政，都證明「自由的秘密是勇氣」。《默克爾傳》說，她不是相信自由與文明一定會贏，她一再說自由的「體系不會贏了一次就永遠贏」，她一直警惕自由體系無法倖存，擔心民主與市場經濟最後會式微，她認為西方國家即將面臨最艱苦的自由之戰。她曾說，馬雅文明也消失了，那麼歐洲這個飽受消失威脅的文明呢？她知道情況很嚴峻。她是從是非而不是從得失去決定行動的。要捍衞自由，秘密就是勇氣。
面臨人大常委即將為香港政改框架作決定，泛民主派也即將與張曉明談政改，筆者且以默克爾這句話獻給真正愛自由而不是更愛錢和愛政治利益的香港人。（https://www.facebook.com/mrleeyee
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德總理臨別贈言「民主人權說」中國領導聽傻眼
2014-07-10 16:30
德國總理梅克爾7月8日於中國清華大學發表演講（網路圖片翻攝）
《德國之聲》（Deutsche Welle）7月9日引述多家德媒報導指出，德國總理梅克爾（Angela Merkel）為期3天的訪中國行程，不但簽下數千億元的貿易訂單，臨別前夕還在清華大學以「永續性發展」為題，針對學生群眾，公開談論民主、獨立思考、個人價值，並讚揚公民社會的好處，文中還多次提到身為東德出生地的自己，如何目賭了德國在二戰後反省，提醒現代人不重蹈過往歷史覆轍。這類與中國學生進行的民主對話，可謂稀鬆平常，不過聽在中國領導耳裡，倍感刺耳高亢，因而中國媒體全面封鎖了該場民主演講的報導。
《新蘇黎世報》（Neue Zürcher Zeitung）經濟版位上一篇專文指出，梅克爾認為，保障個人自由是社會「永續性發展」的基礎。文章中並讚譽，即使跟中國長期進行經貿交易，梅克爾是少數西方政界，會強調價值走向的政治家。梅克爾指出，主張自由、民主，法治國家，以及尊重人權，在中國可不容易。梅克爾屬於另類人物，即使跟中國進行經貿交易時，仍會強調價值走向的少數西方政治家；正因為對於自我獨特性的堅持，使她贏得尊重。
報導也指出，訪華之行結束之前，她將自己的這一觀點包裝進入在清華大學的演講中，也融入她從經濟和社會角度闡釋永續發展的基本原則。她對大學生們說，假如認為「經濟永續發展意味著需放棄增長」，這是一種誤解。她指出，可持續發展意味著：「將經濟能力、環境保護和社會責任作通盤考慮」。由此，她也向中國人發出呼籲，在氣候政策、環境保護領域應考慮到後代子孫後代以及整個世界；她並把永續發展，命名為「德國政治發展的最高指導原則」。
《柏林日報》（Berliner Zeitung）於政治版的專文指出，梅克爾認為與（中國）政府 討論人權議題，對她個人而言非常重要。這是她訪中行程的最後一天（7月8日），也藉此對北京清華大學學生演講，強調了該議題重要性。梅克爾的演講，將綠色內涵定位為「永續性發展」，並將該主題與社會政策的發展，結合起來。梅克爾強調，自己在東德長大，因之深刻體驗，公開意見交流，以每一位個人擁有自由，是何等幸福的美事。
報導指出，演講會場上梅克爾沒有抨擊中國，而是介紹了德國現況。她指出，德國人的共識是，每個人都應獲得教育及升遷發展機會，司法公正跟私有財產保障；這些保障是以「強大法權」為基礎；而非強人的個人意志，說了就算。她並讚揚大學是自由、創新以及開放意識的搖籃。
《法蘭克福匯報》（Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung）記者，北京發出的一篇報導強調說，梅克爾演講，鼓勵中國未來菁英，為建立真正的公民社會做出貢獻，其演講內容就像在「為民主做廣告」。也是在為西方的「獨立思考」、「民主付出」做宣傳。報導中也指出，這是梅克爾第7次訪問中國 ，她在中國菁英搖籃之一北京清華大學發表演講，主題雖是「可持續發展」，著墨較多的卻是屬於人權的公民獨立精神，以及民主的奉獻。
梅克爾傳出版 「永遠不反美」
2014-06-17
前言
與希拉蕊新作《抉擇》同步，《商業周刊》推出三度蟬聯德國總理、十度被《富比世》雜誌評選為最有權勢的女人《梅克爾傳》，也是台灣第一本詳細介紹改變歐洲的政治家梅克爾的重要書籍。《自由時報》今天再次與《商業周刊》合作，摘錄該書精華，分享讀者。
《商業周刊》推出三度蟬聯德國總理、十度被《富比世》雜誌評選為最有權勢的女人《梅克爾傳》。（《商業週刊》提供）
泛大西洋關係是德國外交的核心，無論現在是小布希或歐巴馬在位，都是一樣。沒有哪位總統會惡劣到，會為了他個人，犧牲與那個國家的關係。對梅克爾來說，美國、歐盟及以色列，就是德國外交的基石。梅克爾有時候會談到原則，尤其是與以色列有關的事。但她想表達的都一樣：德國永遠都不許訂出，反歐盟、反以色列，或反美國的政策。
不願為小布希打上伊戰撒旦烙印
正因為這樣，二○○三年伊拉克戰爭前夕，小布希面對各方的指責，梅克爾卻不願為他打上撒旦的烙印。然而那是在施洛德擔任總理時，大多數德國人的意見，這讓她和所屬政黨陷入了空前外交危機。從二○○二年夏天，到二○○三年三月二十日伊拉克戰爭開打之間，德國罕見的為外交政策爭吵不休。
二○○二年初夏，紐約摩天大樓及華盛頓五角大廈遭恐怖攻擊後的九個月，小布希政府收集到愈來愈多證據，不僅打算將塔利班份子逐出阿富汗，也要展示美國的強盛，還打算為九一一中死去的同胞復仇。在二○○二年國會大選時，施洛德就已預料到美國會這麼做，並決定將外交也列入競選的核心議題。八月五日，施洛德在漢諾威的歌劇院廣場展開街頭競選，也開啟了他主攻外交的競選策略，經過了冗長的社會政策、教育政策及內政改革議題，外交議題會讓群眾興奮莫名。施洛德談起世界浮現的新危險、恐怖威脅，然後添上一句：「我們準備團結一致，但這個國家在我的領導之下，將不會為冒險活動效勞。」
「冒險活動」指的是小布希，以及可能入侵伊拉克的情勢。群眾報以熱烈回應，施洛德明白，自己找到了可以發揮的題目：「我只能警告大家，小心戰爭兒戲或軍事入侵這些玩意兒，」群眾的掌聲實在太迷人了，施洛德話鋒再一轉：「這些我們都不參加。」
海珊有會飛的化武實驗室？ 嗤之以鼻
這些話讓基民黨首席候選人史鐸伊伯，冷不防地挨了一記悶棍。直到今天，梅克爾身邊的人仍說：從運動的觀點來看，那個施洛德很聰明，抓住了德國人要的感覺。但是政治方面，不只史鐸伊伯一位候選人要面對這個問題，基民黨主席梅克爾也因想法——永遠不反美國，永遠不反歐洲——與主流不一致，所以很不討喜。要是施洛德對冒險活動讓步，會衍生出一個狀況：歐洲分裂。突然出現了軸心力量或巧克力力量，又製造出五國及十國團體（皆指伊拉克戰爭期間，不與美國唱和的歐洲國家）。有的國家明確與美國劃清界線，也有議會黨團主張對海珊施以軍事壓力，或者基於策略考量，希望避免與美國決裂。
梅克爾從頭到尾都屬於議會黨團的謹慎派，希望不計代價阻止與美國發生衝突，維護歐洲的完整和團結。日後她在諸多訪談中提及，她嘗試藉立場一致的歐洲陣線，阻止小布希在二○○三年初入侵，或者至少把軍隊進駐延後半年。這樣應該可以爭取時間，在不動武的情況下把海珊逐出伊拉克。她論據中的第二個重點是，她一直都不懂，為什麼美國僅憑不可靠的證據，就想證明伊拉克擁有大量毀滅性武器。國務卿鮑威爾（Colin Powell）在聯合國安全理事會上的爭辯，她認為並不足取。鮑威爾還用一種很奇特的方式，說海珊坐擁一間可航行的化武實驗室。
Vote for Merkel Seen as Victory for Austerity
By ANDREW HIGGINS
For months, Europe waited for German elections, hoping that a
re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel would ease austerity measures. The
wait is over, and so, too, is any hint of a new approach.
German Vote Puts Merkel Tantalizingly Close to a Majority
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Chancellor Angela Merkel took the stage at the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union in Berlin.
By ALISON SMALE and MELISSA EDDY
Published: September 22, 2013
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel scored a stunning personal triumph in
Germany’s national elections on Sunday, as voters handed her a clear
validation of her leadership — and an all but certain third term — by
giving her conservative party its best showing in 20 years, teetering
even on the brink of an absolute majority, exit polls indicated.
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Members of the Christian Democrats reacted to the results of the first exit polls.
Projections from both main German television networks showed Ms.
Merkel’s Christian Democrats, together with their sister party in
Bavaria, falling tantalizingly close to an absolute majority, which
would make her the first chancellor since Konrad Adenauer in 1957 to win
one. Still, projections indicated that Ms. Merkel would probably fall
two or three seats shy, and a collapse of her coalition partner, the
pro-business Free Democrats, meant that the chancellor would probably
have to build a new coalition.
The result was likely to mean more paralysis for Europe as its most
important country engages in weeks of horse-trading to form what was
likely to be a grand coalition with her main opponents on the left, the
Social Democrats, who did not perform as well as they had hoped Sunday
and who may prove to be reluctant partners for fear losing further
luster in a government dominated by Ms. Merkel.
President François Hollande of France was swift to congratulate the
chancellor on “success in the federal election” and invited her to Paris
as soon as possible — a clear indication of the eagerness with which
Germany’s most important partners awaited the election result.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, who with Ms. Merkel has guided
Germany and thus Europe through the euro crisis, was swift to go on
television and assure European partners that the government in Berlin
would continue to play a leading role. But what no one knows is exactly
how much fiscal and political unity a new Merkel government would want.
For the moment, however, the exceptionally strong showing left the
chancellor and her party exuberant. Rarely has Ms. Merkel looked as
buoyant as she did when she appeared onstage at her party headquarters
after projections were announced. Her supporters wildly cheered “Angie!
Angie!” and applauded solidly for two minutes, before she thanked party
workers, particularly young volunteers, her campaign manager, aides in
the chancellery and — most unusually — her husband, Joachim Sauer, a
quantum chemist who generally shuns the limelight. He stood quietly to
the side of the stage, shyly acknowledging the jubilation of his wife’s
supporters.
“It was a super result,” Ms. Merkel said. “It is too early to say what
we will do. We will discuss it tomorrow when we know the final result,
but we can already celebrate tonight. Because we were great!”
Projections tallied by the ARD public network and based on exit polls,
which in Germany have proved exceptionally accurate in the past, showed
Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats winning more than 42 percent of the
vote, a gain of more than 8 percent, followed by the Social Democrats
with nearly 26 percent of the vote. An exultant Ursula von der Leyen, as
employment minister the most powerful woman in Ms. Merkel’s Cabinet,
told German television, “this is our best result in 20 years.”
The biggest surprise of the evening was the upstart, anti-euro
Alternative for Germany party, which exit polls showed just shy of the 5
percent needed to enter into the lower house of Parliament. A classic
protest party, it appeared to have drawn enough support from both the
chancellor’s conservatives and the Free Democrats, possibly costing the
latter their place in Parliament.
Projections from the exit polls showed the Free Democrats falling just
short of the 5 percent hurdle, meaning they would be ousted from the
lower house for the first time in postwar Germany, a crushing loss after
having won nearly 15 percent four years ago.
Mr. Schäuble, who together with Ms. Merkel has guided Germany and to a
large extent Europe through the euro crisis, told German television that
Europe had no need to worry about Germany continuing to shoulder its
responsibility in the continent’s affairs.
“We will continue to play our part reliably,” he said, praising the
bonds to a united Europe as the best thing his country has had in
centuries.
Asked whether he would remain finance minister, Mr. Schäuble, who has
been in a wheelchair for 23 years since being wounded in an
assassination attempt on former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, demurred, noting
that many discussions lie ahead.
Nearly 62 million eligible voters were called upon to determine the
makeup of the next German Parliament. The race was closely watched
abroad, given that Germany’s leadership role in Europe will influence
the Continent’s ability to shake its debt crisis, chronic unemployment
and sluggish growth. The next government in Berlin will also play a key
role in finalizing the ambitious trans-Atlantic trade agreement between
the European Union and the United States.
On Saturday, Ms. Merkel wound up her campaign of countless interviews
and almost 60 rallies nationwide since mid-August in her home district
around Stralsund, a pretty medieval Hanseatic port on the Baltic Sea.
Feisty and upbeat as she delivered her usual stump speech, the
59-year-old Chancellor almost forgot that she was the local candidate
the crowd should choose when casting the first of their two votes on
Sunday. The second vote, which is for parties, should also go to her
Christian Democrats, Ms. Merkel said.
“By putting your cross there, you are doing something which will enable
me to continue as your chancellor, which I really want to do,” she told a
seafront crowd of hundreds.
“Tomorrow is your day,” she said, adding her voice to the many urging
all 61.8 million eligible Germans to cast ballots, reflecting the
emphasis on duty, as well as rights, in this post-Nazi, post-Communist
democracy.
Roughly a third of all voters described themselves as undecided just day
election, adding to the uncertainty in what has proved to be one of the
tightest elections since Germany reunited in 1990.
“Germany has had four good years,” Ms. Merkel said on Saturday, looking
back on her second term, dominated by a robust economy and low
unemployment, currently at 6.8 percent. “When we look around in Europe,
we know that is anything but automatic.”
Ms. Merkel had vowed to continue the reflective leadership style that in
turns infuriates and befuddles the country’s partners abroad, but has
been embraced by Germans at home. Many fondly cheered the chancellor as
“Mutti,” or “Mommy” throughout her campaign.
The chancellor’s main challenger, Peer Steinbrück, 66, who served as
finance minister in her government from 2005-2009, however has sought to
cast her carefully weighed decision making as plodding and her
government with the Free Democrats as crippled by in-fighting.
“In 28 hours you can get rid of them, you can get rid of the most
backward-looking, incapable, loud-mouthed German government since
reunification,” Mr. Steinbrück told a crowd of several thousand on
Saturday in Frankfurt, the country’s financial capital and home to the
European Central Bank. He has campaigned on closing the widening gap
between Germany’s rich and poor by raising taxes on top earners and
introducing a minimum wage.
The Social Democrats preferred partners had been the Greens, but exit
polls showed them also suffering losses to reach only about 8 percent
support. That would mean that only by including the far-left Left party,
formed in 2005 from the former East German Communist Party and western
leftists who broke with the Social Democrats, would a left-leaning
coalition be possible. Both center-left parties have repeatedly rejected
a coalition with the Left, charging the party remains fractured by
in-fighting and differences over policy.
Should the chancellor seek a coalition with the Social Democrats, the
negotiations are sure to be difficult and drawn out. Horse-trading
between the two parties took until the end of November in 2005, in
forming her government that led until 2009.
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The Economist 周刊當初選歐洲專欄名稱時選 Charlemagne
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Merkel Receives Award for Promoting European Unity
French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Germany's Chancellor Angela
Merkel as she received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for European
leadership. He said she had taught him patience.
To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the
internet address below:
http://newsletter.dw-world.de
Charlemagne Prize 2008: Angela Merkel
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel is the Charlemagne Prize laureate of 2008. This has been announced by Aachen Mayor Dr. Jürgen Linden and Prof. Dr. Walter Eversheim, spokesman of the Charlemagne Prize Board of Directors. The prize will be awarded on 1 May, Ascension Day.
Merkel is awarded the prize "in tribute to her outstanding contribution to overcoming the crisis of the EU and in recognition of decisions pointing the way to the advancement of the European unification process". The citation adds that the Board is honouring "a convinced European for her pioneering contribution to the European basic treaty, her negotiating style – integrative, accenting the human side, at the same time decisive and purposeful – for her wise diplomacy and her active dedication to the deepening of European integration".
Prof. Dr. Eversheim described Merkel as a European of outstanding merit, able to inspire the hearts of many people in Europe, especially the youth, for Europe once more. "She has led the European Idea out of the depths it was in". Aachen Mayor Linden pointed to her championing not only of Europe but also of human rights and the climate alliance. She was, he added, a politician who was different from many members of the political caste. As a scientist she had a different approach and was endowed with special analytical ability. "She is unequivocal, clear and purposeful, possesses great negotiating skill and shows human warmth. That is indeed a new style and approach."
Angela Merkel is the fourth woman – following Simone Veil, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Queen Beatrix – to be awarded the Charlemagne Prize. The last German laureate was the then President of Germany, Roman Herzog, in 1997. Last year's laureate was Dr. Javier Solana Madariaga.
The Charlemagne Prize carries a token cash award of 5000 Euro. Besides the certificate, a medal is conferred bearing on the front the oldest extant Aachen city seal dating from the 12th century and showing Charlemagne enthroned; the reverse is inscribed with a dedication to the laureate.
More information:
Citation of the Board of Directors of the Society
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