英語検定ライティング準１級（第231回）

キューバ危機「その時の彼は45歳だった話」

高校の日本史は戦後を教えない。カリキュラム的に時間がないのは理由ではない。アメリカによる植民地支配が続いていることを高校生が知ってはいけないからである。意図があるのだ。
In high school in Japan, students have no opportunity to learn about what Japan has been since 1945, he says.
It is not because we have no time to learn this in the curriculum viewpoint, but because high school students mustn’t learn about something important of Japan, which might be controlled as if it were a colony by America for about seven decades deliberately, he says.

冷戦と言えばキューバ危機を思い出す。第三次世界大戦を回避したことで彼は高く評価されている。ベトナムから軍を撤退させて戦争を回避しようとしていた矢先に彼は暗殺されたのだ。
When it comes to Cold War, we absolutely remember “Cuba Crisis,” where the President JFK managed to succeed in avoiding the nuclear war, which enabled him to be evaluated highly, in addition, he tried to avoid fighting with China in Vietnam in 1963 in vain because he was assassinated before he arrived at his destination.

その時の彼が45歳だったことを考えるとバイデン大統領は２倍近くの年齢だ。フロンティア精神を掲げて革新的な施策を推進した彼と比較すると年齢以上に精神性に大きな違いがある。
Considering his age 45 in those days, the current President is about twice as old as the late President.
The latter tried to promote various innovative measures with the new frontier spirits in his mind, and vice verse.
As compared with the latter, the former has been considered as someone unreliable, or a soft touch by numerous ordinary citizens in his nation in recent years.
Our mentality outweighs our age, the late President said.

ケネディが大統領になって国民に発信した言葉は今でも覚えている。国民が国に何をできるかが重要だ。国が国民に何かをするわけではない。日本の政党のマニフェストにそれはないな。
What the late President said in 1961 in front of tremendously numerous audiences seemed extremely impressive toward him.
What matters is that the people should do something important to the nation, at the same time, the people shouldn’t wait until the nation should take actions toward them, which the current Diet members in our society should listen to.