麦克阿瑟告别演讲“老兵永不死”演讲中英文

他们 都使用精力来扭曲我的职位。结果我被说成了是个好战分子。没有事物能够越加远

离真理 。

我明白现在活着的人当中几乎没多少能真正了解战争，

没有比 这更令我心情不悦的

了。

因为对朋友和敌人带来的破坏已经致使 一系列国际上的争论都毫无用处，

我倡导这项废

除令很久了。事 实上，在

1945

年

9

月

2

日，就跟在日本国在密苏里号战舰上投降后，我正

式警告如下：

“

人类从一开始就寻求和平。 不同的时代各式各样的方法都被用来设计国际性的进程，来

平息和解国与国之间的争论。

有许多可行性的方法是被个别的公民发掘的，

但是在一个巨大< /p>

的国际范围中，

技术工人用单一的手段还从未成功过。军事的联盟 ，实力的平衡，

国家的结

盟，

轮流着失 败，

留下这唯一的路径来当作战争的严酷考验。

战争带来的整个 破坏现在产生

了二选一。

我们只有最后的机会。

如果我们我们不能设计出一些更好更公平的制度，

大决战

将近在咫尺。

问题是神奇的，

它涉及到一种精神的再生和人类 性格的改进，

将与我们在科学、

艺术、文学及所有物质文化

2000

年来的发展近乎史无前例的同步进展。如果我们要保存肉< /p>

体就必须有精神作支撑。

”

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老兵永不死

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但是一旦战争逼迫着我们发生，那就没有选择的尽力使 战争尽快结束。战争的目的是为

了胜利，

而不是为了无休止的延 长。

战争中没有东西能代替胜利。

有一些人因为各种原因要

安慰红色中国。

他们无视历史的教训，

因为 历史无庸质疑地强调了抚慰只能招致更血性的战

争。

就像敲诈勒 索，

它爆发于连续不断的新的需求，

在威胁中，

暴力成为了仅存的另外选择。

“

为什么？

”

我的士兵问我，

“

难道要 我们在战场上放弃对敌人的优势？

”

我无言以对。

有人会说：和中国携手进行一次全力以赴的战争来避免冲突的传播；另外，要避免苏联

< br>的干涉。

似乎没有一种解释是有效的，

因为中国已经表明 有了最大限度的影响力，

且苏联不

会迎合我们的步伐。

就如一条眼镜蛇，

当新的敌人感到军事上的相互依存或者别的遍及世界< /p>

的潜在诱惑，他们就很可能会发动进攻。

事实使韩国的悲剧更为加深 了，军事行动缩小了他们的国界。那个我们要拯救的国家、

他们要饱受整个海军和空军毁 灭性的对抗，

然而敌人的地盘却在如此的攻击和破坏之下全全

得 到保护，

这是受到谴责的。

在世界上所有的国家中，

的国家。

韩国 人民巨大的勇气和刚毅拒绝描述。

比起奴隶身份他们情愿选择了拼死。

< br>他们对

我留下的最后一句话是：

“

决不能逃离太平洋！

”

我只为你们留下了英勇善战的儿子们。 他们

在那遇到了各种各样的考验，我会毫无保留地向你们汇报他们在每个方面都很出色。

< /p>

我持久地尽我所能去保护他们光荣地结束这场野蛮的冲突，并且要花费最少的时间，付

出最小的牺牲。

那些日趋增长的杀戮给我带来了极度的痛苦和忧虑。

那些勇敢的人们永久地

留在我的脑海中以及我的祈祷文里。

我即将结束我

52

年的戎马生涯了。还在本世 纪开始前当我加入陆军时，我孩提时代所有

的希望和梦想便实现了。

自从我在西点广场上虔诚地宣誓以来，

世界已几经倾覆，

希 望和梦

想也早已消失，但我仍记得那时最流行的一首军歌中的句子，它自豪地宣布：

“

老兵永远不 死，他们只是悄然隐去。

”

像那首歌中的老兵一样，我作为 一名在上帝的光辉下尽心尽职的老兵，现在结束我的军

事生涯，悄然隐去。

再见。

英文全文如下

:

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride

--

humility in the weight of

those

great

American

architects

of

our

history

who

have

stood

here

before

me;

pride

in

the

reflection

that

this

home

of

legislative

debate

represents

human

liberty

in

the

purest

form

yet

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老兵永不死

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devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not

stand

here

as

advocate

for

any

partisan

cause,

for

the

issues

are

fundamental

and

reach

quite

beyond the realm of partisan consideration. They must be resolved on the highest plane of national

interest if our course is to prove sound and our future protected. I trust, therefore, that you will do

me the justice of receiving that which I have to say as solely expressing the considered viewpoint

of a fellow American.

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose

in

mind:

to

serve

my

country.

The

issues

are

global

and

so

interlocked

that

to

consider

the

problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. While

Asia

is

commonly

referred

to

as

the

Gateway

to

Europe,

it

is

no

less

true

that

Europe

is

the

Gateway to Asia, and the broad influence of the one cannot fail to have its impact upon the other.

There

are

those

who

claim

our

strength

is

inadequate

to

protect

on

both

fronts,

that

we

cannot

divide our effort. I can think of no greater expression of defeatism. If a potential enemy can divide

his strength on two fronts, it is for us to counter his effort. The Communist threat is a global one.

Its successful advance in one sector threatens the destruction of every other sector. You can not

appease or otherwise surrender to communism in Asia without simultaneously undermining our

efforts to halt its advance in Europe.

Beyond pointing out these general truisms, I shall confine my discussion to the general areas of

Asia.

Before

one

may

objectively

assess

the

situation

now

existing

there,

he

must

comprehend

something of Asia's past and the revolutionary changes which have marked her course up to the

present.

Long

exploited by

the

so

-

called

colonial

powers,

with

little

opportunity

to

achieve

any

degree

of

social

justice,

individual

dignity,

or

a

higher standard

of

life

such

as

guided

our

own

noble administration in the Philippines, the peoples of Asia found their opportunity in the war just

past

to

throw

off

the

shackles

of

colonialism

and

now

see

the

dawn

of

new

opportunity,

a

heretofore unfelt dignity, and the self

-

respect of political freedom.

Mustering half of the earth's population, and 60 percent of its natural resources these peoples are

rapidly consolidating a new force, both moral and material, with which to raise the living standard

and erect adaptations of the design of modern progress to their own distinct cultural environments.

Whether one adheres to the concept of colonization or not, this is the direction of Asian progress

and

it

may

not

be

stopped.

It

is

a

corollary

to

the

shift

of

the

world

economic

frontiers

as

the

whole epicenter of world affairs rotates back toward the area whence it started.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this

basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is

now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek

now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support

--

not imperious direction

--

the dignity of

equality and not the shame of subjugation. Their pre

-

war standard of life, pitifully low, is infinitely

lower now in the devastation left in war's wake. World ideologies play little part in Asian thinking

and are little understood. What the peoples strive for is the opportunity for a little more food in

their stomachs, a little better clothing on their backs, a little firmer roof over their heads, and the

realization of the normal nationalist urge for political freedom. These political

-

social conditions

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