Championing U.S. interests he, too, favoured a peaceful settlement of the Sian Incident, because U.S. imperialism was at loggerheads with Japanese imperialism with which it was then contending for supremacy in the Far East.

• 由于当时美日两帝国主义在远东争霸的矛盾，他根据美国的利益，对于西安事变，也主张和平解决。