【120】 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２３８ページをご覧ください） 　General MacArthur.　I tried to cover that yesterday, Senator, and in my speech before the Congress. I believe the problem is a global one. I believe we should defend every place from communism. I believe we can. I believe we are able to. I have confidence in us. 　I don't believe we should write off anything and accept the defeat that is involved in it. I don't believe we should breach our own line. 　Senator Lodge.　I am delighted to hear you say that. 　General MacArthur.　The other fellow has the same problems that we do. If we have to work on two fronts or three fronts or four fronts, so does he; and if we can't meet him and defeat him, our ultimate destruction is certain. 　I believe we can; but I believe to let him breach us in any one sector, that he will overwhelm us from that sector. I believe it is a principle of war. You may have on area in which you concentrate more, but if you do, you have got to hold in the other areas. 　The whole principle of the application of force is that you concentrate in some place so as to be in superior force there, but you must hold in the other places. If you don't, he has already concentrated superior forces in those other places, and the principle will rebound upon you. 　I don't admit that we can't hold communism wherever it shows its head. 　Senator Lodge.　I think that is a very sturdy statement and one that will be very helpful. Certainly then, you do not think we ought to withdraw from Europe, do you? 　General MacArthur.　I certainly do not. 　Senator Lodge.　And as a corollary to that statement of yours----- 　General MacArthur.　The whole essence of some segments has been to say that if you defend in the Far East, you sacrifice Europe, or vice versa. I think each of those concepts would be pernicious. I believe we should hold our own in both places. 　Senator Lodge.　I agree very thoroughly with you. But the corollary of that is, is it not, that we must have the requisite military strength so that we can be strong in both places? Is that not true? 　General MacArthur.　I am completely for preparedness. 　ADEQUACY OF UNITED STATES PREPAREDNESS 　Senator Lodge.　Do you think that we are increasing our armed services fast enough? 　General MacArthur.　That is a question I wouldn't attempt to pass on, Senator. I haven't seen the studies that have been made. It is a responsibility of the Joint Chiefs and other groups here. I have had all I could do, and perhaps a little more than I could do, to handle the situation out in the Far East. 　Senator Lodge.　So you wouldn't care to say either one way or the other whether you think our Army, Navy, and Air Force are big enough now and are growing fast enough. 　 （１６年６月号２３９ページ） 　General MacArthur.　I would not attempt to make any judgment on it until I had made a complete study of the potentialities, the facts, and other things which are not available to me, and which I have not had to pass upon.