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米国の友人から入手した昨年4月17日のWorld Tribune web版には「嵐の4･24」全文の英訳が掲載されていました。web版と紙版と紙面がどれくらい違うのか知りませんが、陽光さんご報告のように1年経って内容が後退しているのかもしれません。
陽光さんご指摘部分の英訳、私が持っているコピーでは以下のようになっています。
I also knew how exhausted everyone was, due to the long, detensive battele in which they had all fouht so hard.
But "flow of the time"!? It was the attitude, the state of mind underlying that utterance that so disturbed me. I could detect no trace of the fighting spirit to protect the Soka Gakkai with one's life or the willingness to fight together with me, no matter the times of circumstances.
The priesthood put pressure on the Soka Gakkai with the secret aim of disbanding it as a religious organization. Corrupt, evil individuals, including a treacherous Soka Gakkai attorney, had suggested this to them. Whether or not the Soka Gakkai's leaders knew it at the time, they had allowed themselves to become entrapped by the nefarious strategies of the priests and members who had renounced their faith and betrayed the organizations.
It was pitiful. I was completely at a loss for words.
Mr. Toda had told us all; "Protect the third president! Protect him as long as you live! If you do so, you will definitely be able to achieve kosen-rufu!" Had the top leaders of the Soka Gakkai forgotten the spirit of their beloved mentor? How pathetically they had let themselves be defeated?
What was the Gakkai spirit, that they should have allowed themselves to be so overcome by circumstances?
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