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(和訳は16年11月号242ページをご覧ください)
General MacArthur. I don't know what you mean by "unconditional surrender", Senator. The only thing that the United Nations and the United States as its agent has ever demanded is a liberated, unified Korea.
Never by word or deed they indicated that they had any other concept. The enemy, on the other hand, has openly announced its purposes which involve the complete destruction of our forces, the complete occupation of Korea, the forcing upon Korea of a totalitarian system of government.
All of those things have been announced, but the only purpose that we have as I see it, is to sop the depredation of the Chinese Communist forces in North Korea, and their allies, the North Koreans.
I have endeavored to the best of my ability to suggest a discussion of honorable terms to end this war. We have been met at every turn by that, by the introduction of other political efforts, the recognition of Red China, which has noting to do with the Korean conflict, the turning over of Formosa, which has nothing to do with the Korean conflict. Those are the insistence of the enemy before he sits down.
Those, if they were accepted, would again fit my definition of appeasement.
Senator Fulbright. Well, do you feel our Government has accepted those principles that you have just mentioned?
General MacArthur. Do I feel that our government has accepted them?
Senator Fulbright. Yes.
General MacArthur. No, sir. Those are the demands of the enemy, and as I said today, the Joint Chiefs of Staff within the month have recommended that in the discussion of cease-fire terms, that neither of those appeasement policies should be acceptable even for discussion. What the attitude of our Government is, I don't know, but I would doubt very much that it would consider such terms.
Senator Fulbright. Well, that is my impression.
General MacArthur. What is that?
Senator Fulbright. That is my impression, sir.
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IS WAR WITH RUSSIA INEVITABLE
Senator Fulbright. General, would you care to say whether or not you feel that war with Russia is inevitable? I mean that question comes to all of us here, not only this year, but in this conflict that has grown up with Russia, it must be settled by war. Do you have a feeling or view about that?
General MacArthur. No, sir; I do not feel that war is inevitable. I believe that the great masses of the world, what you might call the ordinary men of the world, are invincibly against war.
I believe that the great tragedy of the world today is that we have not been able to establish the mechanics to carry out the will of the common people that war shall be nonexistent.
I believe that the same impulses against the destructiveness of war exist in common by all people.
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