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Memorandumは社内・組織内の文書なので、部外者はなかなか目にする機会がないので、英語で業務をしない方にはなじみがないかもしれません。無理矢理TOEICに絡めてしまっている感じもしますが、米国国防省のMemorandumをご紹介します。内容に立ち入る前にどういうフォーマットで書かれているか確認いただければと思います。
米国国防省のMemorandum
TOEICに関心のある方向けの内容はここまでとなります。
ルワンダについておさらいするのに簡潔にまとまったブログ記事がCFRにありました。上記のメモはそこで紹介されていたものです。日付が1994年４月11日とありますので、米国はすでに虐殺の状況、被害が拡大する可能性を掴んでいたということになります。
Lessons of the Rwandan Genocide
by Stewart M. Patrick April 7, 2014
Lesson 1: Early warning is not the problem. Early action is.
Lesson 2: Debates over terminology only distract.
Lesson 3: Mass atrocities do not require advanced killing technology.
このブログ記事で紹介されていたのは以下のサマンサパワーさんの記事です。クリントン大統領は雑誌New Yorkerの熱心な読者でその記事を通して虐殺を知ったとあります。
SEPTEMBER 2001
Bystanders to Genocide
The author's exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making, together with her analysis of newly declassified documents, yield a chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will—and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime
SAMANTHA POWERSEP 1 2001, 12:00 PM E
A few years later, in a series in The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch recounted in horrific detail the story of the genocide and the world's failure to stop it. President Bill Clinton, a famously avid reader, expressed shock. He sent copies of Gourevitch's articles to his second-term national-security adviser, Sandy Berger. The articles bore confused, angry, searching queries in the margins. "Is what he's saying true?" Clinton wrote with a thick black felt-tip pen beside heavily underlined paragraphs. "How did this happen?" he asked, adding, "I want to get to the bottom of this." The President's urgency and outrage were oddly timed. As the terror in Rwanda had unfolded, Clinton had shown virtually no interest in stopping the genocide, and his Administration had stood by as the death toll rose into the hundreds of thousands.
20周年ということで、サマンサパワーさんが触れているPhilip Gourevitchの記事をNew YorkerはFrom now until July 4th, we’ve unlocked these articles on the genocide so that everyone can read them.と一般公開してくれています。
LETTER FROM RWANDA
AFTER THE GENOCIDE
When a people murders up to a million fellow-countrymen, what does it mean to survive?
BY PHILIP GOUREVITCH
DECEMBER 18, 1995
欲しい情報は過去のものでもすぐに手に入るというのは、インターネットの恩恵ですね。
米国国防省のMemorandum
TOEICに関心のある方向けの内容はここまでとなります。
ルワンダについておさらいするのに簡潔にまとまったブログ記事がCFRにありました。上記のメモはそこで紹介されていたものです。日付が1994年４月11日とありますので、米国はすでに虐殺の状況、被害が拡大する可能性を掴んでいたということになります。
Lessons of the Rwandan Genocide
by Stewart M. Patrick April 7, 2014
Lesson 1: Early warning is not the problem. Early action is.
Lesson 2: Debates over terminology only distract.
Lesson 3: Mass atrocities do not require advanced killing technology.
このブログ記事で紹介されていたのは以下のサマンサパワーさんの記事です。クリントン大統領は雑誌New Yorkerの熱心な読者でその記事を通して虐殺を知ったとあります。
SEPTEMBER 2001
Bystanders to Genocide
The author's exclusive interviews with scores of the participants in the decision-making, together with her analysis of newly declassified documents, yield a chilling narrative of self-serving caution and flaccid will—and countless missed opportunities to mitigate a colossal crime
SAMANTHA POWERSEP 1 2001, 12:00 PM E
A few years later, in a series in The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch recounted in horrific detail the story of the genocide and the world's failure to stop it. President Bill Clinton, a famously avid reader, expressed shock. He sent copies of Gourevitch's articles to his second-term national-security adviser, Sandy Berger. The articles bore confused, angry, searching queries in the margins. "Is what he's saying true?" Clinton wrote with a thick black felt-tip pen beside heavily underlined paragraphs. "How did this happen?" he asked, adding, "I want to get to the bottom of this." The President's urgency and outrage were oddly timed. As the terror in Rwanda had unfolded, Clinton had shown virtually no interest in stopping the genocide, and his Administration had stood by as the death toll rose into the hundreds of thousands.
20周年ということで、サマンサパワーさんが触れているPhilip Gourevitchの記事をNew YorkerはFrom now until July 4th, we’ve unlocked these articles on the genocide so that everyone can read them.と一般公開してくれています。
LETTER FROM RWANDA
AFTER THE GENOCIDE
When a people murders up to a million fellow-countrymen, what does it mean to survive?
BY PHILIP GOUREVITCH
DECEMBER 18, 1995
欲しい情報は過去のものでもすぐに手に入るというのは、インターネットの恩恵ですね。
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