LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Ezra Pound at the microphone.
Why did you get into this war?
Of course I can’t examine you. But you stick ’round and listen, and
maybe in time I will teach you some history.
You ought not to be in the war.
#46 (June 14, 1942) U.K.(B32)
THE BRITISH IMPERIUM
Savin’ the British Empire is not my job. Time was when I sweat a bit
thinkin’ of how one could save England. I have no objection to
conservin’ the English race. I belong to one part of it.
That don’t make me believe it ought to be an infamy or a worldnuisance.
Bein’ an all-fired persistent nuisance is perhaps NOT the road
to self-preservation. And bookish men are proverbially led astray by
analogies. Allus pickin’ the wrong analogy or doin’ their pickin’ too late.
The way for England to have conserved quite [a] bit of her cushiness
was I believed, and I still believe it, WAS by honest economic reform.
By saving the people of England inside England. The baronial halls, etc.
could have persisted for decades. PLENTY was possible. Plenty was
CRYING to come into being.
Honest Englishmen after the last war were fed on sawdust. They wanted
to work, they tried farming in Anglo-African colonies. They tried
chicken raising in England. Someone of ’em wanted to increase
England’s farm output. There was finally a book, Famine in England, by
Lord Lymington. There was 20 year’s work by five hundred honest men
ALL wantin’ to save old England, by 50 thousand, by more honest men.
Was all of it wasted? No, damn it, all of it was not wasted, but its yield is
not yet. And the ruin of most of it is due to the liars. Has ANYone in