LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Wall, he starts off, and somewhere in the .very first sentence he sez “the
maintainance of war sentiment in Italy becomes an increasingly hard
problem.”
Oh, is THAT so ? sez the aristocrat, wrinklin’ up his nose with
amusement.
So I continue readin’ the tidbits:
“A SINISTER image HAUNTS the rulers of Italy. It portrays (I’spose in
some kind of language an image can portray, but I ain’t yet seen an
IMAGE portrayin’; if the word portray means to paint a portrait. But let
us pass the Times writer choice of words.) It PORTRAYS Britain
emerging from the present struggle impoverished but still sound and
strong. It portrays America turning her mighty industry ... and SO forth.
Waaal, now really. If some of the Sassoon’s last opium cargoes got toted
up from what is now Shonanko, into the Printing House Square or
Holland Park West, or wherever, there may be an IMAGE portrayin’.
But the only reaction to America having an industry I have read was one
about the multiplication of bed bugs; that was considered beneath the
dignity of Rome radio, but might in time be found to be the only
adequate reply to such nonsense.
As to Britain’s FUTURE might, you git “420,” quattro cento venti; the
Italian penny comic and you will find what Italy is FEELING and
thinking; during the 1914 unpleasantness “420” used to bring weekly
pleasure to thousands with its “IMAGES” of Franz Josef. That is now
what Italy THINKS about Roosevelt and England. And as for being
strong but impoverished, there are still tender hearts, NO longer
anglophile in general; but having traces of friendship for personal
friends IN England and they have been known to wonder whether people
who had 1000 sterling per annum will after this war have 100, and those