【119】 原文中の（）内のページ表示は本誌ページです （和訳は１６年６月号２３７ページをご覧ください） 　STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF EUROPEAN AIR BASES 　Senator Lodge.　You said to Senator Russell yesterday-----at least I think you did-----that the Soviet industrial potential is in European Russia, and for that reason you did not believe that the Soviets could maintain a sustained threatening offensive in eastern Russia. 　If that is true, do you not feel it is important from an over-all stand-point for the United States to retain bases for its strategic aviation in Europe from which it could reach that Russian industrial potential in case of trouble? 　General MacArthur. 　Yes, sir. 　Senator Lodge.　And you think in general, do you , that the more effective allies we can have the better; isn't that true? 　General MacArthur. 　Correct. 　Senator Lodge.　And the only trouble is some of them aren't effective; is that right? 　Do you think we ought to make the necessary arrangements so that the millions of stateless anti-Commnist young men in Europe and in the Orient who have no army of their own can be formed into military organizations so that our men will have their help in combat and not have to carry so much of the load of fighting and foreign duty by themselves? 　General MacArthur. 　It is a very interesting suggestions, Senator. I haven't given it any consideration, but it is an interesting possibility. 　Senator Lodge.　As a matter of general foreign policy, do you favor regaining the initiative which we lost at the end of the war? 　General MacArthur. 　Have we lost the initiative? 　Senator Lodge.　Don't you think we have lost the initiative? 　General MacArthur. 　I think there has been a play backward and forward, but I wouldn't attempt to say that we have lost our initiative. 　You are getting pretty far afield from my own theater, Senator. These are merely superficial comments that I make on my general knowledge. RELATION OF EUROPE AND FAR EAST IN GLOBAL POLICY 　Senator Lodge.　Well, of course, I quite agree that it is not fair to question you in detail on matters outside of the far eastern theater, and I don't want to do that; but, of course, the American public regards you not merely an an authority on the military situation in the Far East, but also as a great American citizen, and all American citizens and their representatives here in Congress are generally involved in American foreign policy as a whole-----and that, of course, includes you. 　It seems clear to me that if we could consider the Far East by it self without any relationship to anything else, that we should in all probability do virtually the things that you recommend. 　Judging from the mail that I get, though, there are millions of Americans who are perplexed by the relationship of the defense of America in the Far East with the defense of America in Europe. 　 （１６年６月号２３８ページ） 　Is there anything that you care to say about that in general terms and as an American citizen and not as an expert?