・・・When The Post’s Keith B. Richburg approached Mr. Chen’s home village, Dongshigu, a week ago, he found it sealed off by plainclothes thugs who kicked his car and chased him away. The fear of these men has spread from Dongshigu to the surrounding villages, Mr. Richburg reported.
＜また、治安当局が、４人の韓国の人権活動家・・脱北者の状況を調査していたらしい・・を既に50日間拘束しているが、うちの１人にしか、韓国の領事の接見を認めていない。これは国際法違反だ。↓＞
Separately, Chinese state security has held four South Korean human rights activists for the past 50 days in Dandong, Liaoning Province, on charges of posing a “threat to national security.” It would seem that their real crime was researching conditions among the many North Korean refugees who escape to that part of China. So far, only one of the detainees has been granted a visit from the South Korean consul, even though all of them are entitled to consular access under international law.
＜これらは、中共に全く法治主義が存在しないことを示している。↓＞
All of this conduct is blatantly at odds with China’s claim to be a nation of laws.・・・
＜このままでは、中共には繁栄も安定もないだろう。↓＞
China can have neither prosperity nor stability without greater freedom and more official accountability — no matter how threatening those may be to the people who currently hold power. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chen-guangchengs-far-reaching-fate/2012/05/18/gIQAzn7UZU_print.html
・・・Three retired Chinese Communist party officials have issued a call for leaders to disclose their family wealth before a looming succession, warning that a scandal over the fallen politician Bo Xilai has exposed dangerous abuses of power.・・・
The petition was dated mid-February, but in the letter accompanying it, the signatories said they decided to make it public after receiving no response from central leaders.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/chinese-leaders-wealth-bo-xilai
現在、中共は三つの深刻な問題に直面しているというコラムだ。↓
＜一、これほど当局の指導部が割れていることは今までなかった。↓＞
・・・The Chinese leadership is rarely so clearly divided. ・・・
＜二、中産階級が、製品の安全性、食品の安全性、大気の質、広汎な腐敗、に強い不満を抱いている。↓＞
The Chinese middle class, whose rise has buttressed political stability, appears disgruntled. Social media in China are alive with complaints about product safety, food safety, air quality (described by U.S. officials as “crazy bad”) and widespread corruption.・・・
＜三、３億人にのぼる、田舎出身者のほとんど豊かな沿岸都市群に住んでいるが、彼らには本来の都市住民並みの権利が与えられておらず、不満が鬱積している。↓＞
・・・a huge migrant labor force, estimated at 300 million, who live mostly on the margins of the rich coastal cities. They represent a potential source of instability because they are denied full urban status, with its attendant benefits. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-wobbly-leadership-transition/2012/05/18/gIQAlHKVZU_print.html
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イギリス史とロシア史が共鳴した瞬間（その10）
http://blog.ohtan.net/archives/52133469.html
太田述正コラム#5282（2012.2.5）
＜イギリス史とロシア史が共鳴した瞬間（その10）＞（2012.5.21公開）
マレヴィッチは、抽象的な幾何学的形態をより高次元の現実の体現であると見た。
レーニンの立方形の大霊廟が、死が存在しない「四次元」を表していると信じて...sakimono9992012-05-21T06:47:12+09:00
＜イギリス史とロシア史が共鳴した瞬間（その10）＞（2012.5.21公開）
・・・Nato＜'s＞ new ballistic missile defence system has reached what it calls "interim operational capability".・・・
If there is a potential ballistic missile threat to Nato countries then it can be summed up in one word - Iran.・・・
However, a leading expert on missile defence technology・・・believes that this potential threat has been much overstated.
"The fundamental long-term threat from Iran is from nuclear weapons. But for now Iran does not have the bomb. A ballistic missile without a nuclear weapon," he says, "is like a terrorist bomber without an explosive vest." ・・・
・・・it is overwhelmingly likely that if the SM-3 missile is used in real combat, it will be total failure”・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18093664
・・・In male ＜financial＞ traders – and most are young men – a run of success creates a testosterone-fuelled “winner effect” in which the trader is biologically driven to take ever greater risks. When he crashes into huge losses, his whole personality changes (a transformation that Coates calls the “hour between dog and wolf”, a phrase apparently popular in medieval times to denote the period of confusion and potential metamorphosis around dusk). The cowed trader becomes apathetic and, for a while at least, excessively risk-averse.・・・
＜うまくいかなくなると、人間も、動物と同じく、小便や大便をして身軽になって現場から逃げ去ろうとする。
だから、もっと女性や老人をトレーダーにすべきなのだとさ。↓＞
“When caught in a terrifying event, our bodies assume we need a quick sprint to safety and accordingly jettison excess weight by forcefully expelling urine from the bladder and faeces from the colon,” Coates writes. “As losses mount on the trading floor, one observes anxious traders marching briskly to the toilets, the men’s room starting to exude the fear and stench of a slaughterhouse.”
There are ways to tame excessive displays of animal spirits, however. One is for trading rooms to employ more women and older men, in whom testosterone is less dominant. Their presence would, in the long term, lead to more stable and profitable activity, Coates argues. Another reform could be to change banks’ reward systems so that trading bonuses are based on performance over a whole business cycle of four or five years rather than on annual profits, which encourage short-term risk-taking and volatility.・・・ http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/c6849366-9e93-11e1-a767-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1vH1wlh8Q
In December 2010, a trio of Western diplomats stationed in China -- one each from Canada, Switzerland, and the European Union -- drove from Beijing to the village of Dongshigu, eight hours away in Shandong province, hoping to visit the detained dissident Chen Guangcheng.
No one has spoken publicly about what happened next. Theydid not mention the excursion itself, and certainly not the rough reception they received from the hands of the guards who prevented them from seeing Chen. ・・・ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/16/blame_canada?page=full
The faith’s sacred text, the Book of Mormon, describes the United States as “a land of promise . . . a land which is choice above all other lands.”・・・
Garden of Eden is in Missouri・・・
Romney, a former bishop and devout Mormon,・・・
Seventy-four percent of Mormons say they identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, the highest percentage of any faith group.・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-mitt-romneys-love-for-america-a-mormon-thing/2012/05/11/gIQAQeBlIU_print.html
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＜これらのSF小説は、＞彼が生涯講釈を垂れてきた話とは全く相いれない教訓を教える。
知識の前進は人類を自分達自身から救うことはできず、仮に人類が進化の道程の方向を科学を利用して定めようとすれば、その結果は、怪物達を生み出すことになるという教訓を・・。
これこそ、ウェルズの本当のヴィジョンだったのだが、このヴィジョンは、いつも＜彼によって＞小声で否定されつつ、その生涯の大部分において、彼の科学的物語群の中でだけ表明された。
ムーラは、この（後に彼がそう描写したところの）「秘儀的な哲学」をウェルズの意識的自覚の中へと解き放ったのだ。
もはや彼女が信じられなくなったウェルズは、彼女との関係を断とうとした。
しかし、彼は、彼女を余りにも必要としたため、自分は、自分がそう想像したような覚醒した個人ではない、ということを認めざるを得なかった。
＜そもそも、＞進化をコントロールできるような知的な少数者など存在しないのであって、終わることなき漂流の過程があるだけなのだ、と。
この啓示は彼を希望なき状態へと追いやった。
この心の状況は彼が著した最後の何冊かの本の一つである、『行きづまった精神（The Mind at the End of Its Tether） 』（1945年）に反映されている。
しかし、それが話の全てではない。
なぜなら、ムーラはウェルズにそれまで味わったことのない幸せ・・やはり彼の生涯の終わり近くに書かれた『The Happy Turning』の中で表明された、世界を変えるべく努力することを彼に止めさせ、「美の永遠に最終的なもの」を熟視するところの、澄み切った受容の雰囲気・・を彼に与えたからだ。・・・」（F）
・・・ Elections are the worst way to select judges. The process leaves judges beholden to party bosses, wealthy donors, and the whims of the very, very few people who actually bother to vote.
Consider the state of Supreme Court elections in Michigan.・・・
The best way to fix the system is to change it—to replace elections with gubernatorial appointments based on merit. A bipartisan nominating commission would screen candidates according to defined legal standards.・・・ http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/the-best-courts-money-can-buy/?ref=opinion
・・・Because of the democratic endeavors of Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, the G-7 welcomed Russia in 1997. But because Russia is no longer a democracy by any stretch of the word, the basis for Russia's membership in the G-8 has evaporated.・・・ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/15/kick_russia_out_of_the_g_8?page=full
イジメ事件に関するロムニーの逃げの姿勢を非難するコラムがようやく出たな。↓
・・・This is where it gets maddening. First, his explanation is not credible. One of the witnesses・・・said to the Times, “Certainly, for the other people that were involved, nobody has forgotten.” Second, what Romney seems to be implying — that bullying of effeminate-seeming boys didn’t happen in prep schools in the 1960s — is preposterous.・・・
＜また、ロムニーが同性婚に反対すること自体はともかく、結婚とは一人の男と一人の女との間のものでなければならない、という論理はおかしい。彼の奉じるモルモン教は、かつて一夫多妻制を認めていたではないかってさ。↓＞
On same-sex marriage, Romney has shown a similar kind of willful amnesia. Over the weekend, Romney assured his commencement audience at Liberty University that marriage has long been, and will always be defined as “a relationship between one man and one woman.”
Except, in the case of his great-grandfather Miles P. Romney, whose idea of marriage was between one man and five women. Or his great-great grandfather Parley Pratt, one man who married twelve women.
Call them sexual outlaws, Biblical originalists, or just guys who liked a renewable supply of young women, but Romney’s not-so-long-ago ancestors were anything but practitioners of the kind of marriage Romney claims has been enshrined since the dawn of civilization.・・・
＜また、ロムニーがマサチューセッツ州知事だった時にやった医療保険改革は、まさに今回、オバマが米国全体に対して行った医療保険改革の先取りであり、基本的に同じ内容のものなのに、大統領候補になった現在、オバマの医療保険改革に反対しているのもおかしいってさ。↓＞
・・・on health care, Romney is in a weasel world all his own. He can’t deny being the intellectual father of Obamacare, after coming up with a fair system in Massachusetts that requires freeloaders to get health insurance so that everyone else won’t have to pay for them.
So he continues to act as though there’s some difference between the two plans. Romneycare works in Massachusetts, in the same way that Obamacare will work for the rest of the nation if given a chance. Romney knows that.・・・ http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/romneys-weasel-problem/?ref=opinion
Young billionaire Eduardo Saverin has always had clever lawyers. He famously sued his Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg to win official co-founder status. Now, just ahead of Facebook’s IPO and the expected pop in the value of his shares, Saverin has renounced U.S. citizenship. On advice of counsel, he’s established residency in Singapore, where there is no capital-gains tax.・・・
・・・far greater number of Americans who, in deed and mind-set, are shedding obligations to their country: wealthy individuals who park income in offshore havens, U.S. corporations that use paper subsidiaries to book profits in foreign jurisdictions. All these forms of opting out feed a norm that says, in effect, America’s for suckers.・・・ http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/15/its-not-just-facebooks-cofounder-who-is-trying-to-dodge-taxes/
・・・Many pundits predict that Burma will never make the transition to full-fledged democracy even if free and fair multiparty elections become the new norm, making it a flawed and illegitimate democracy similar to many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union.・・・
Yet there are good grounds for optimism. ・・・
＜専制的憲法の下で自由民主主義化した例は、チリやコロンビアを含め、少なくない。↓＞
There are many examples of countries that began their moves toward democracy with autocratic constitutions and then later reformed them. ・・・
These include Chile and Colombia・・・
＜ポルトガルの場合は、左翼連合が共産党を排除したことが、旧体制下のエリート達から不安を取り除き、自由民主主義化を実現した。これが範例となって、スペイン、ひいてはラテンアメリカ諸国の自由民主主義化が実現して行った。↓＞
・・・the exclusion of Communists, who threatened to expropriate former autocratic elites, from the left-wing alliance of Christian Democratic, Social Democratic, and Socialist party leaders in Portugal in 1975 was key to convincing the military to give democratization a green light, bringing an end to a year and a half of political turmoil following President Antonio Salazar's ouster. It also reduced the likelihood of elites having a reason to topple democracy to protect their interests later down the line. This transition served as a model for future transitions in Spain and across Latin America.・・・ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/14/burma_can_bring_it?page=full
・・・If the capture of US policy-making by financial institutions effectively rules out any serious attempt to tackle the country's economic problems for the foreseeable future, a still greater obstacle is the incapacity of elites to face the realities of America's situation in the world.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/time-start-thinking-edward-luce-review
・・・At the end of the day Europe is a Greek word,・・・
＜急進左派連合の、ユーロ圏にとどまりつつ、緊縮財政に反対する、という論理矛盾の主張にギリシャ人は一層首肯しつつある。↓＞
Mr. Tsipras＜'s＞・・・message that Greece can stay in the euro and reject Europe’s budget-cutting terms has struck a chord, however contradictory that may seem.
＜急進左派連合の支持率は27%へと、選挙の時より10ポイント以上上昇している。↓＞
New polls show that his support has increased from the 16.7 percent that he garnered at the last election to 27 percent -- a figure that, if borne out in an election, would make him the country’s top vote-getter. ・・・ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/business/global/for-many-in-greece-austerity-is-a-false-choice.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print
＜別の世論調査ということなのか、４ポイント弱しか上昇していないとも報道されているね。↓＞
・・・An opinion poll published on Sunday, seven days after Greece's electoral earthquake, suggested voters were bent on sending further tremors through the political landscape. The survey・・・showed support for Syriza climbing from 16.8% to 20.5%.
New Democracy would be projected to win 18.1% of a new vote, and Pasok 12.2%, their lowest ratings in the nearly 40 years that they have dominated Greek politics.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/13/greek-coalition-leftist-leader
・・・The best option・・・would be a strategy to achieve a primary balance by 2013 and then to default on all outstanding foreign debt, public and private. It would not be popular outside Greece but it would be hard to push Greece out of the eurozone.
＜これまでの与党連合の政策は、ドイツの戦間期の政策で出口なしだってんだけどね。↓＞
I consider Mr Tsipras’s approach too risky. But I can see why Greek citizens would vote for him. His position is certainly more rational than that of the austerity centre-ground establishment, which can offer no perspective of an economic turnround. This is Germany in the early 1930s all over again.
This leaves us with a choice between default later and default now. I would prefer default later because it would make for a smoother fiscal adjustment, bring a few sensible reforms and increase the probability that Greece could stay in the eurozone.
＜否応なしに急進左派連合の主張に沿ってギリシャは動いて行くだろうだって。↓＞
Sadly, the political momentum is swinging the other way. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/233a3186-9b58-11e1-8b36-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1uneWcDIZ
ギリシャとドイツの有識者の対話記事だ。↓
＜欧州の連帯意識なんてなかったことが分かったって。
ドイツ人は、ギリシャの苦しみを含め、欧州から裨益しているとの自覚がない。↓＞
・・・What was clear from the beginning, and shocked me deeply, was that there was no feeling of European solidarity. Germans were not willing to understand that we benefit from Europe, even from the crisis itself.・・・
＜ギリシャ人は、先の大戦時のドイツへの憎しみを蘇らせた。↓＞
Then・・・Greek politicians・・・identified the old enemy again: the force of German colonisation.・・・
＜欧州はナショナリズム/民族主義によって再び引き裂かれつつある。↓＞
Everything is beginning to splinter along traditional national and ethnic lines, which is completely tragic. Dark forces have taken over.・・・ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/11/greece-germany-eurozone-crisis-perspectives
After three decades of persecution that virtually eradicated its presence, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.・・・
The revival marks an extraordinary comeback for an organization that was almost annihilated after the last revolt in Syria, which ended in the killing by government forces of as many as 25,000 people in the city of Hama in 1982. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syrias-muslim-brotherhood-is-gaining-influence-over-anti-assad-revolt/2012/05/12/gIQAtIoJLU_print.html
・・・It was silly four years ago to argue that Barack Obama was unsuited for the presidency because he smoked pot and snorted cocaine once upon a time. It is silly to reach the same conclusion about Romney now・・・
＜当時、ある同期生の家が貧しいことを知るとロムニーは急に無愛想になったってさ。↓＞
Lou Vierling, a scholarship student who boarded at Cranbrook for the 1960 and 1961 academic years, was struck by a question Romney asked them when they first met. “He wanted to know what my father did for a living,” Vierling recalled. “He wanted to know if my mother worked. He wanted to know what town I lived in.” As Vierling explained that his father taught school, that he commuted from east Detroit, he noticed a souring（無愛想）omney’s demeanor.
＜当時、ロムニーがデートしていたところの、姉妹校の生徒の家が、ロムニーの父の支援者たる大金持ちだったが、ロムニーは、ものすごく羨ましがってたってさ。↓＞
Romney was bowled over by the wealth of some of his friends. He briefly dated Mary Fisher, the daughter of the philanthropist and diplomat Max Fisher, who acted as a finance chairman to George Romney’s political campaigns. At her house, he watched the James Bond film Goldfinger in the family’s private theater before it was widely released. He reported excitedly back to [close friend Matthew] Friedemann about the theater, noting that the seats even had numbers.・・・
＜（ボク自身、何でロムニーが・・父は州知事になる前はアメリカン・モータースの幹部だったけれど・・ハーバード大でMBAとJD両方を取得しつつ、
＜ http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC ＞
最初から政治家を目指さなかったのか疑問に思ってたけど、）ロムニーは、とにかく大金持になりたかったに違いないってわけだ。↓＞
Certainly one can argue that embedded in these stories are flecks of the ambition toward great wealth that drove Romney to corporate success.・・・ http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/11/in-defense-of-mitt-romney-high-school-bully/
・・・We had the Eurovision Song Contest; they had... the Intervision Song Contest.・・・
It was not a Communist party functionary, though, who had come up with the idea - it was a Polish pianist.
Wladyslaw Szpilman・・・ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18006446
＜長髪にして茶発を金髪に染めた下級生を不快に思ったロムニー↓＞
・・・he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenage son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.・・・
＜みんなで彼を床に押し足して髪の毛を短くちょん切った。↓＞
・・・they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.・・・
＜報道された後、ロムニーはこの事件を覚えていないとしつつ・・当時ロムニーが率いた集団全員が覚えているのだから、明らかに嘘だ。しかし、不思議なことに、その後の記事やコラムでこのことをあからさまに指摘したものはない・・遺憾の意を表した。↓＞
In a subsequent interview・・・Romney said he didn’t remember the incident but apologized for pranks he helped orchestrate that he said “might have gone too far.”
＜その後、この下級生は茶髪に戻し、髪の毛を短く切った。やがて、たばこを吸っていた廉で退校処分をくらった。↓＞
After the incident, Lauber seemed to disappear. He returned days later with his shortened hair back to its natural brown. He finished the year but ultimately left the school before graduation -- thrown out for smoking a cigarette.・・・
Lauber died in 2004・・・
＜別の高校とヴァンダービルト大学を卒業した後、ゲイであることをカミングアウトした彼は、金髪に戻し、荒れた生涯を送り、2004年に肝臓がんで死亡した。↓＞
After Cranbrook asked him to leave, he finished high school, attended the University of the Seven Seas for two semesters, then graduated in 1970 from Vanderbilt, where he majored in English.
He came out as gay to his family and close friends and led a vagabond life, taking dressage lessons in England and touring with the Royal Lipizzaner Stallion riders. After an extreme fit of temper in front of his mother and sister at home in South Bend, he checked into the Menninger Clinic psychiatric hospital in Topeka, Kan. Later he received his embalmer’s license, worked as a chef aboard big freighters and fishing trawlers, and cooked for civilian contractors during the war in Bosnia and then, a decade later, in Iraq. His hair thinned as he aged, and in the winter of 2004 he returned to Seattle, the closest thing he had to a base. He died there of liver cancer that December.
He kept his hair blond until he died, said his sister Chris. “He never stopped bleaching it.”・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_print.html
＜ロムニーの父親はミシガン州知事だったので特別視されたし、他方で、ロムニーは一般に良い印象をもたれていないところのモルモン教の信者であったことから、彼はいたずらっ子になって自己韜晦をせざるをえなかった。↓＞
・・・On the one hand he had an embarrassingly famous father, the governor of Michigan, whom he idolized as the youngest child. On the other he was the sole Mormon, a member of what was definitely seen as a creepy, stigmatized cult in that world of bland Episcopalian Wasps (we had Episcopalian services at chapel three mornings a week).
＜そんなところに現れたのが件の下級生だった。大勢（たいせい）に順応していない彼をイジメることで、ロミニーは自分が大勢の一員であることを証明したかったところ、それに成功した、と思われる。↓＞
… No wonder he became a daring and even violent prankster. He who worried about his own marginal status couldn’t bear the presence of an unapologetic sissy like Lauber, with his long bleached hair (the Mormons, then as now, have insisted on a neat, traditional, conservative appearance, especially in their young missionary men whom they send out all over the world). In scorning and shearing a sissy student and leading a gang of five other boys in this “prank,” Romney may have felt popular and in the right for the first time.・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/young-mitt-romney-odd-man-out/2012/05/12/gIQASnFXKU_blog.html?hpid=z3
・・・ In the U.S., 75% of investor-immigrant applicants were from China in fiscal 2011. ・・・
Canada was a favorite destination, but its investor immigration program,・・・ is no longer accepting new applicants, until at least July, to deal with a backlog that has caused process times of more than threeyears for Chinese. ・・・
・・・the most skittish are asking for ways to get to lesser-known destinations such as the small Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as to Bulgaria.・・・ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203604577393841014313050.html?mod=WSJ_World_LeftCarousel_2
＜彼女は、ミュンヘンで英国がヒットラーに妥協したことだけを取り上げているが、当時チェコスロヴァキアと同盟関係にあったフランスの方が責任がより重い。また、チェコ人亡命者に対する英国人の態度がよくなかったというが、1940年に当時の英国王夫妻がチェコ独立運動の指導者負債をバッキンガム宮殿での昼食に呼んでいる。↓＞
・・・ if I have a criticism of Albright, it’s this: Having read it very closely, I can’t help feeling she doesn’t like the English very much. She takes Britain to task for a number of failings, not least for not standing up to Hitler at Munich in 1938 (although it seems to me that since France, not Great Britain, was Czechoslovakia’s ally under the Little Entente treaty of 1924, and had the greater duty) as well as for the small-minded, comical way we English went about the defense of our country, not to mention our rather condescending behavior toward Czechs in exile. Just how condescending could we really have been, I wonder, when the king and queen took the trouble to invite Czech independence movement leader Edvard Benes and his wife to lunch in the summer of 1940? I’ve lived here for 56 years, and I’ve never even been through the gates of Buckingham Palace. My father was wearing clogs to school in Edinburgh while Albright was attending a private school in Walton-on-Thames and living in a nice big house in Kensington.
＜戦間期と第二次世界大戦直前の２回、英国はオルブライト一家を受け入れているというのに、そして、そうしていなきゃ、オルブライトは強制収容所で殺されていただろうに、一言の感謝の言もないとはどういう了見だ。↓＞
“Few sentiments,” says Albright, “are expressed more often than gratitude,” but in “Prague Winter” this gratitude doesn’t run to the least amount of thanks to a country that came to her family’s aid — twice. Without the sanctuary provided by Great Britain, Albright would almost certainly have died in Theresienstadt or Auschwitz like many of her family members.
A simple expression of gratitude would have been nice. But I looked for a kind word about my fellow countrymen and found none — no, not even about Churchill. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/prague-winter--a-personal-story-of-remembrance-and-war-1937-1948-by-madeleine-albright/2012/05/11/gIQAEgVpIU_print.html
＜サンフランシスコで沖仲仕をやっていたホッファーが初めての本・・The True Believer: Thoughts on the nature of mass movements（1951）（『大衆運動』（高根正昭訳、紀伊国屋書店、1961）） http://www.logico-philosophicus.net/profile/HofferEric.htm 上掲
・・を出したのは50歳前後の頃だった。↓＞
・・・When “The True Believer” was published in 1951, he was a largely self-educated longshoremen, aged 50 or thereabouts (there is doubt about his actual birth date), a barrel-chested guy who earned his living by loading and unloading ships on the docks of San Francisco. ・・・
＜彼は、恐らく、ドイツから米国に不法入国してきたんだろう。↓＞
Hoffer probably entered this country illegally as a young man, perhaps from Germany.・・・
＜彼は大変な米国好きだった。（彼もまた米国に過剰適応した一人だったってことのようだね。）↓＞
Hoffer loved this country fiercely and was deeply proud to be an ordinary American workingman.・・・
＜でも、彼だって、ちゃんと生涯連れ添った内縁の妻を得てたんだね。↓＞
・・・he found in Lili Fabilli Osborne, the estranged wife of a communist friend, a devoted companion for the rest of his life.
＜その後、カリフォルニア大学バークレー校で客員教授的なことをしていた時期があるんだって。↓＞
Following his involuntary retirement from the docks, in 1964 Hoffer took up a position at Berkeley as a kind of visiting professor, simply coming onto campus once a week to talk for a few hours with students and visitors. ・・・ http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-eric-hoffer-the-longshoreman-philosopher-by-tom-bethell/2012/05/09/gIQAasr0DU_print.html