バートランド・ラッセル『ヒューマン・ソサエティ－倫理学から政治学へ』第２部[「情熱の葛藤」- 第２章- Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, Part II, chapter 7
* 原著：Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954* 邦訳書：バートランド・ラッセル(著),勝部真長・長谷川鑛平(共訳)『ヒューマン・ソサエティ－倫理学から政治学へ』(玉川大学出版部,1981年７月刊。268+x pp.)
『ヒューマン・ソサエティ』第２部「情熱の葛藤」- 第８章「征服?」n.2 |
Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, part II: The Conflict of Passions, chapter 8: Conquest ? n2 |
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Let us first consider the hypothesis of a Soviet victory. Painful as such an hypothesis must be to all who are not Communists, I am afraid that, as things are, it must be admitted to be possible. This would not have been the case in the first years after 1945, while America still had the monopoly of the atom bomb. But at that time the American Government had not yet made up its mind that hostility to Russia was inevitable, and the American armed forces, having won their war, were anxious to come home and very unwilling to embark upon another war. Now that the political situation has changed, the military situation also is different, partly because China has become Communist, but still more because Russia possesses atom and hydrogen bombs. The situation therefore is one in which the victory of the West cannot be assumed as a certainty. |