A JAPANESE INTERNATIONALIST INAZO NITOBE'S KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

在国际联盟成立之初，甚至更早的时候，Nitobe能够扮演国际联盟发言人的角色，很大程度上是由于他对英国文学的渊博知识。当时它的临时总部设在伦敦。美国取消了她的成员资格，尽管整个想法最初是由威尔逊总统提出的。法国和意大利迟迟没有任命各自的副秘书长。1919年7月，只有两个人要为明年1月开始的国际联盟做准备。他们是埃里克·德拉蒙德（Eric Drummond），被任命为秘书长；尼托贝（Nitobe），被任命为三名副秘书长之一，因为他的国家太远而离开了伦敦。欧洲的气氛普遍是对国联的潜力持怀疑态度。即使是英国，尽管她将成为主要成员，也有许多愤世嫉俗者。同盟必须在成立之前把自己推销出去。在这个关键时刻，新刀部是一位非常受欢迎的英语讲师，因为他对英国文学和西方思想都很了解。这位秘书长比新部小14岁，在外交部有过辉煌的职业生涯，但仅限于外交政策方面的实际事务。Nitobe越来越多地代表国际联盟（League of Nations）团队，在英国和欧洲大陆上进行演讲。可以毫不夸张地说，是Nitobe在联盟成立之初确立了崇高的理想。从这个角度出发，我追溯了几位伟大的英国文学作家对Nitobe的影响：莎士比亚、托马斯·卡莱尔、约翰·罗斯金、拉迪亚德·吉卜林和Nitobe的同时代诗人朗费罗。

It is largely due to his profound knowledge of English literature that Nitobe was able to play the role of a spokesman for the League of Nations, at the time of its inauguration and even earlier than that. At that time its temporary headquarters was in London. The U.S. had cancelled her membership notwithstanding the fact that the whole idea was initially advocated by President Wilson. France and Italy had been slow to appoint each their undersecretary general. There were only two in July 1919 who should prepare for the League of Nations, which was to start next January. They were Eric Drummond, appointed Secretary General, and Nitobe, appointed one of the three undersecretaries general and left in London because his country was too distant. The atmosphere in Europe generally was one of skepticism about the potential of the League. Even Britain, in spite of the fact that she was to be the leading member, had many cynics. It was necessary for the League to sell itself in advance of its inauguration. At this critical moment, Nitobe was a much sought after lecturer in English because of his knowledge of English literature and of Western thought in general. The Secretary General, fourteen years younger than Nitobe, had had a brilliant career with a Foreign Office background, but that was limited to practical matters in foreign policies. Nitobe increasingly took on the lecturing mantle on behalf of the League of Nations team, both in Britain and on the continent. It is not too much to say that it was Nitobe who established the lofty aspirations of the League at its start.From this point of view, I traced the influence on Nitobe of several great writers of English literature : Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Rudyard Kipling, and Nitobe's contemporary poet Longfellow.