LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

For my part thought that Americans had been embroiled in European
wars long enough, easy to see that France and England will be
constantly at manoeuvre to work us into their real or imaginary balances.
John Adams
Ezra Pound speaking.
The Americans are unqualified for intervention, they are DISqualified by
reason for their intense, abysmal, unfathomable IGNORANCE of the
state and past facts of Europe. Even my colleagues in the Academy of
Social and Political Science have no competent perception of the
DIFFERENCE, the basic difference between the American problem and
that of Europe. And most of them have not made any adequate use of
even such fragmentary fragments of knowledge as they possess.
#47 (June 15, 1942) U.S.(B58)
VIOLENCE
I have been looking over a careful study of America by a careful writer,
it is not an edition deluxe and the photo reproductions are not pretty.
Some of them deal with gangsters, and gangsters’ ends. There are also a
few Negroes suspended from trees, without apparently due trial by law.
There are also photos of Mexican pyramids. The traveler was quite
impartial, he recorded whatever he saw, or the parts that aroused his
interest.
The book leads me to reflections on violence. American lynch law had
its origins in the Jewish ruin of the American South. It is very hard to
explain lynch law to Europeans.
The Ku Klux once had a reason. Today the survival of lynch law
appears, at least from Europe, to be a sheer manifestation of