デジタル版『渋沢栄一伝記資料』

昭和7年2月1日（1932年）

当協会機関誌「国際知識」二月号ヲ「故子爵渋沢栄一翁追悼号」トス。

社団法人国際聯盟協会会務報告　昭和六年度　同協会編
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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　昭和七年五月刊
　　　○三、理事会
　　　　○会長渋沢子爵の薨去
○上略
国際知識　七年二月号は特に「故子爵渋沢栄一翁追悼号」として、生前親しく関係のあられた徳川総裁、其他十六大家の執筆になる記念号を刊行す。
○下略

AN INTERPRETATION OF THE LIFE OF VISCOUNT SHIBUSAWA by KYUGORO OBATAS [OBATA]
　　　　　　　　　　　　　INTRODUCTION pp. xvi-xvii
　　　　　　　　　　　　　Nov., 1937.
　　　　　　　　　　INTRODUCTION
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　　The Viscount did not however confine his outlook and nterest to his own nation. He was a true patriot. But so large was his mind and heart that his interests and concern leaped across the national frontiers and made the world's problems and its needs his own. His love for his country and his internationalism were so blended that it took both to give expression to the full measure of the man.
　　Although he took the whole world into his mind and heart it was the bettering of American-Japanese relations and Japanese-Chinese amity to which he gave himself with crusading zeal. America has never had a truer friend than Viscount Shibusawa. Throughout his long life he left no stone unturned in his efforts to build a bond of understanding and good will between America and Japan. This was one of the major goals of his life.
　　He was also one of China's most understanding friends. An earnest and consistent follower of Confucius and an ardent student of the Chinese Classics enabled him to look deep into the Chinese soul and comprehend the true inwardness of the Chinese people. He yearned that these two sister nations of Eastern Asia which have had so much in common across the centuries should speedily settle their differences and become a united and mighty force in the building of a better world.
　　The Viscount had the mind and the mood of a pioneer.
 - 第37巻 p.368 -ページ画像 
 In his own special field as a banker and an industrialist he blazed new trails in many directions. In his interest in woman's education and in the large role he played in the founding of the Japan Women's University he helped to inaugurate a new day for the nations' womanhood.
　　In the international realm, through his innumerable and intimate contacts with outstanding leaders in practically every nation and his unceasing endeavors to build a world brotherhood, he took his place by the side of those in every land who have pioneered in the interests of world peace and international good will.
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　　　　　　　　　　　　(Signed) Tokugawa Iesato