LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Laval saved Paris. Churchill would have had ’em lay Paris flat, to gain
three days time that would have had NO effect whatsoever on the result
of the German campaign in France. What causes that ? Criminality ?
Imbecility ? Or what Napoleon would have called lack of imagination,
meaning incapacity to form a picture in the mind’s eye of what the
TOTAL destruction of Paris would mean.
Those of you who want to see Paris again will owe it to Pierre Laval
whom the British tried to have murdered.
Those of you who ever do see Paris either for the first time or again will
not owe it to Mr. Churchill. Had that criminal ape got his way, there
would have been absolutely NO PARIS there.
Yes, we were once young or younger, and many of us fell for the
Russian Red Revolution. Because the Marxist diagnosis was pretty near
right. The remedy did NOT work. AND the revolution was betrayed.
Another revolution, a youth, has NOT been betrayed. It is moving, it is
moving toward what the decent Reds wanted.
A lot of ’em saw no further, wanted no more than the end of certain
abuses. The fools got control. Now YOU are NOT communists. The
United States of America and France and every other nation East of the
Volga WANTS the homestead. The French peasant wants his own bit of
land, without the dead hand over him; without mortgage. The working
man does NOT want to govern; he wants good government.
You Americans and the English want government to be good without
ANY effort on your part whatsoever. You don’t even look at what is
done by your governments. Takes an awful heave to get ANY of your
attention turned onto the vital facts of a government policy. Most men
want certain things IN their own lives, largely in or inside the sphere of
their own trade or business. Very few analyze that want or carry their