LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

horses. One would think the human race was worth as much attention as
the British fanciers give to whiffets.
Albert Londres had a hunch that the French ought to try it on blacks in
their Africa. He hated to see the Africans going rotten, covered with
scabs in French colonies. Céline thinks it would be useful to use that
much sense on Frenchmen. So I suppose Admiral Leahy, or whatever
Layafettist [?], is over there at Vichy trying to blackmail Pétain, will be
trying to git ALL Céline’s books forbidden or pinched in the
UNOCCUPIED parts of French territory.
Oh, it’s a lovely world, as Candide has told us, all that is, is the best
possible.
Mebbe in time the American college boys will gil ‘round to reading me
or Céline or some of the Livin’ authors. BUT don’t git to thinking that,
just because the Clipper ships carry so little NEWS, that there is
NOTHING being written in Europe. Ole Europe is still here on the
continent. Josh Twostep, Josher Dos Passos hasn’t succeeded in
persuadin’ Europe that times like these are times in which the writer
should lay off writin’.
Times like these are times when a writer should git down to bedrock and
talk without fuzz on his tongue. Céline does that all right enough. Time
to read Céline for the simple truths that stand there in his writing,
expressed with perfect lucidity—and simplicity. You may be a bit late in
startin’.
A great writer is one whose straight simple phrases stick in the memory.
L’ame n’est pas venue sur la terre pour se faire êmerger.
#38 (May 17, 1942) U.K.(B45)
FREE SPEECH IN ALBION (ALIAS ENGLAND)
The propaganda for free speech in Britain (listlessly elegiac,
retrospective) r sounds as follows: “The murderer stole my watch but his
wife told him not to. We have free speech in this family.” That is how it
sounds HERE. No one denies that free speech is a fine old British