LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

pm first hand that facts about Germany did NOT git much anglo-yanko
publicity. And I keep off guess work when writin’ my history. That is, I
separate guess work from SOLIDS. And a solid is, for example, that a
certain idea was PRINTED on a given day. And I do NOT assert things
to be so from readin’ translations till I have seen the originals. That is, I
treat translations as translations. And not having read the English version
of Mein Kampf I will not discuss it. That book was translated into Italian
and printed in 1933 (yaas, a delay, not an immediate publication) and
Bompiani had [a] coup de genie, published the second half first, so the
Italian public had chance to GET the program clear and at the start. And
I affirm that there has for years been the most God damned ignorance
and misapprehension of that program in England and America.
I myself had only a vague idea. I wasn’t intent on Germany. I had my
job with my writin’, and my recordin’ of ITALY. Trying to git things
straight. I could see it was GOOD here in Italy. I said it was the ONE
inch of solid ground. That’s why I came here. ONE inch of solid earth
where a man could see straight and write it; could buck the international
money swine and NOT disappear altogether. And I reckoned in a general
way that Germany etc. etc. NOT till the time of Sanctions did I begin to
consider Germany from a new angle. Up till then I had drifted on, pretty
much in the old 1914 view that Germany ought to be etc., etc.
APART, that is, from my view of Drang nach Osten. Germany, natural
civilizer of Russia, ought to keep western edge of Europe at level of
civilization and amenity already reached, at least that. And let Germany
go East leaving the old balance of power. Not till I was settin’ by the
bandstand, or standin’ and I heard “forse con mciggiorgiustizia,” voice
on the radio, givin’ a survey of Europe, did I begin to wonder: Well,
maybe. I was behindhand in readin’ Mein Kampf, but do you YET know
what is IN it? Have you a clear idea of the PROGRAM? Hitler in 1924
saying that Germany ought to lay off the Tyrol, ought to SEE Italy. See
Italy Fascist as the ONE ray of light in a world that was going to sunset,
sinking. Just as I saw it as the ONE inch of SOLID basis. Well, Brother