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LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

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come here and tell papa. I can’t prove this assertion, but I await any<br />

disproof, and I don’t expect it to be forthcomin’.<br />

The phrase, cut off the NOSE to spite the face, may seem invidious and<br />

SUGgestive. “Wasn’t she a silly slut, to sell her bed and lie in dirt?”<br />

Yaas, SHE was, Margery Daw or Columbia, Solomon’s jewel. You have<br />

cut your nose off to the extent of three summer vacations in Europe. You<br />

have cut your nose off to the extent of what you haven’t had in those<br />

three years in the way of cultural contacts and the amenities. Whatever is<br />

happening in the way of BASHING abundance INSIDE the United State<br />

of America you know better than I do, and I am not going to tell you<br />

about Cincinnati. I have heard British fools talk about Italy which they<br />

had not visited. I have seen men get het up about what happens in other<br />

countries, meaning what is SAID to happen in other countries. And what<br />

they have read in the noozwypers, and I am not going to participate in<br />

that form of foolery.<br />

YOU TELL ME about what is going on in the United States of America<br />

and I’ll tell you what I see here in Italy. That will be fair exchange and<br />

no kikery.<br />

I do NOT admire your making war on Finland, Iceland and Venezuela,<br />

on the pretense that you don’t like Hitler’s municipal government.<br />

Or that you steal from other countries because they are incapable of<br />

governing themselves, or because their governors are incapable of<br />

stealing from them. Neither, I think, do you.<br />

EIGHTY years peace for England would have been useful to England.<br />

Thirty years peace for the United State of America would have been<br />

useful to YOU. It would have meant a whole generation.<br />

I don’t know how long the Pacific would have maintained its status quo,<br />

but I am right, downright certain that I could have done BETTER in

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