LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

who is sufficiently worried by the disEnglish-ation of England? Clumsy
word. If I say deanglicization, someone will misunderstand it, and think
I am gettin’ religious.
Will you realize that if there weren’t something IN Italy a damn sight
better than you have ever dreamed of existing here, or been willing to
admit COULD exist here, I would be writing these things in jail on
waste paper, instead of tellin’ ’em to the world via Rome Radio? And I
do not mean a spirit of compromise. There was a time, 25 years long,
when Europe would have welcomed COLLABORATION. There still is
an INTEREST in the true answer, which is NOT YOUR answer, it is not
an answer with England king-of-the-castle. But there are men who will
not leave the English race even a place ON its own island. Those men
are neither in Italy nor Germany.
I don’t MIND an Anglo-American hookup if you hook up with the
RIGHT kind of America. I should dislike seein’ England, a mere
provocative bridgehead, a Czechoslovakia financed from abroad to run
Vickers gun works and bring on six or either other wars. Would it not be,
in any case, GEOpolitic? After all, there is the shape of five continents to
consider and the sea-space between the two hemispheres.
And one more factor: every German knows that he fights for Bismarck,
for the work of Bismarck, every Italian knows that he fights for the work
of Cavour, of Crispi, and Ricasoli.
But every American with a knowledge of his own history, possibly a
MINORITY, but still a segment not wholly negligible, I repeat: every
American with any sort of grasp of the glory of American history, knows
that he is NOT in this war for the work of Adams and Jefferson, of Van
Buren and Lincoln. Not yesterday that was written:
… try to drag us into their real or supposed coalitions.