张学良认为国民外交协会在当时特定环境下以人民外交为依托在维护国家主权的斗争中发挥了特殊重要的作用。由于东北国民外交协会在民办转为官支民办后只有两年便发生了九一八事变,其外交活动的详情大都鲜为人知,目前国内外学者对它也缺乏系统专门性的研究,为此笔者愿就这样一个成立仅有两年的民众团体在外交层面所发挥的独特作用以及它与张学良政权的特 Zhang Xueliang believed that the National Diplomatic Association has played an especially important role in the struggle to safeguard state sovereignty based on the people’s diplomacy in the specific circumstances of the time. Since the Northeast National Diplomacy Association has witnessed the events of the September 18th Incident in only two years since it was officially turned into an official and its support to the people’s government, the details of its diplomatic activities are mostly unknown. At present, scholars both at home and abroad also lack systematic and specialized research on this. I would like to comment on the unique role played by such a mass organization of only two years of establishment on the diplomatic level and the special role it plays in connection with Zhang Xueliang’s regime