LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

digested Brooks Adams taking the grand, but inhuman sweep, seeing
ideas, and material forces. Woodward realizin’ as Voltaire had realized
that ideas and forces move and are moved by human beings, each with
his own quirks, kinks and limitations.
I think Woodward underestimates the Adamses and Van Buren. I also
think he would be a good check on anyone who, like myself, tends
preponderantly to see a man’s aim, his idea, and what might have been.
Seeing the reasons why certain ideas have not fully gone into action, or
have not attained their completion as custom, as law, as event.
There are several points omitted by Woodward. And that fact should be
borne in mind by the student. But the professors who high hat
Woodward, because he does not write on stilts and carry a pair of lemon
colored gloves peeking out of his pocket, are in error. There is probably
more American history in Woodward’s 875 pages than in any one
volume that covers a similar stretch of American history. Needing
checkup, needing additions, needing reference to the actual papers of
four generations of Adamses and those of Van Buren.
#66 (March 14, 1943) U.K.(C15)
ANGLOPHILIA
I have before now told you things too soon. I mean I told ’em to you (the
small select elect who have listened), I told you that Wilson had NOT
the power to sign treaties for the American people. And so on? I told you
that a line of poetry could be poetry, could be poetry even if it did not
contain precisely ten syllables arranged in the order of ti tumti tum ti
tum. And so ON.
And I told you, I think I told you over this radio that in the U.S. of
America there is a basis of anglophobia, quite deep rooted, and having
ascertainable causes. I hear that this simple perception is gainin’ ground
in your country.