LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Yes, we HAVE in the United States state legislatures, etc. DO they cut
any ice?
The American system was GOOD for 80 years, after which it was
betrayed and defiled AT THE CENTRE, and the outlying parts grew
steadily less efficient, and still less efficient.
I would like to see a little blood, or oxygen infused back into ’em. Any
how, whatever kind of a MESS you are in in America, with your farms
mortgaged to milk trusts, England is in a worse mess. I’ll say a worse
mess. And I reckon even the Sunday Times is about ready to wish some
of the stuffed British shirts had aberrated more in my fashion. Or to see
that England would have been happier had she puked out the stuffed
shirts and put in some fellows capable of similar ABERRATIONS.
Similar I mean to what they call my aberrations.
#29 (April 23, 1942) U.S.(B35)
MacLEISH
American news items, and the utterances of prominent Americans reach
me, often with lamentable delays, and often I have to grope for the
possible or probable original text, through an Italian translation.
Nevertheless the drift of Mr. MacLeish’s remarks toward the end of
March seems fairly clear. He has been given a gangster’s brief; that is,
he has been entrusted with the defense of a gang of criminals, and he is
doin’ his damndest.
I object, and have objected to the CRIME, regardless of who may be
related to the men who have committed it. And I accept the conditions
of the debate, namely that the Morgenthau-Lehman gang control 99% of
ALL means of communication inside the U.S.A. and that they can drown
out and buy out nearly all opposition. On top of which Roosevelt has,
characteristically, resorted to blackmail. ANY man who does not accept