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手紙 ★スロヴェニアの弟からアメリカの兄へ 第二次大戦中、ルイス・アダミックほど国外からユーゴスラヴィアに貢献した作家はいなかった。１９４２年８月２０日に投函された手紙は、ユーゴスラヴィア、エジプト、ロンドンを経てアメリカの兄の許に届いたのはすでに鉄の暴風の過ぎ去った１９４３年１月１９日であった。 For an endless time we
have not had any word of you or your wife.Now and
then on the radio we hear words spoken in Mother and all the
brothers and sisters are still living today.Of our
relatives many are already lost. Suffering is extreme.The storm with metal hail rages on.Losses are enormous for our small nation. We ask for
urgent help,or it will be too late. All of us send you,your wife and all your friends in ……………My Native Land 1943
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★妻ステーラからルイス・アダミックへの手紙 ステーラはアダミックの執筆・プロジェクトのよき理解者であり協力者であった。アダミック自身も書いているように、彼女の物心両面の支援なくしては初期の重要な作品『ダイナマイト』も『ジャングルの中の笑い 』も存在しなかった。以下は「世界政府」について。 |
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Dear Louis: Jan.14’49 In the course of
correspondence with Henry Wallace,I ventured to
tell him that some of his good followers were a bit worried by the rumors
that he might give the world federation or world government movement a degree
of support with which we would not agree.He replied
promptly,saying he was ‘so glad’I had raised the subject.Here are excerpts from his letter of January
10th: ‘…under no
circumstances would I be active in any organization designed to isolate
eastern Europe and China from the rest of the world.I
agree completely and whole-heartedly with you that any plan to organize and
federate the ‘Capitalist world’ would only bring war and universal destruction.Personally I can stand for no World
government or World Federation unless both the United States and the USSR are
members.But I do say that the ultimate objective is
such agreement between the United States and the USSR that both will be
willing to see the U.N.or the World Government
equipped with an armed might greater than both of them combined. There is no
reason why there should not a peaceful co-existence of the Communist states
and the Capitalistic states in one world.I would
hope and plan for World Government but I would know that such hopes and plans
are utterly futile unless and until there is complete understanding between
the United States and Russia. The idea of imposing
world government on Russia first by isolation,second
by economic pressure,and third by world government,is utterly fantastic.I
shall not fall into that trap.’ Tine Kurent, “PISMA LOUISA ADAMICA NECAKU TINETU” （Letters by Louis Adamic to his nephew Tine） ,Dve domovini/Two Homelands-9-1998,27-53:Centre of Scientific Research of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts The Institute for Slovene Emigration Research; |
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