LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

A glance at Japanese sword guards, a glance at Jimmy Whistler’s
remarks about Hokusai, or, as I indicated a minute ago, a familiarity
with the Awoi no Uye, Kumasaka, Nishikigi, or Funa-Benkei. These are
Japanese classical plays, and would convince any man with more sense
than a pea hen, of the degree of Japanese civilization; let alone what they
conserved when China was, as Fenollosa tells us, incapable of
preserving her own cultural heritage.
China lettin’ Confucius go OUT of the schools, for example.
And you needn’t sniff, the Bostonians kulturbund needn’t sniff and say
the British Broadcasting Company, the Bloody Boobs Corporation, is
over in vulgar London, such things couldn’t happen in Boston.
Almost equal imbecility was attained by Time weekly magazine in
November of 1941.
Someone had apparently blundered, as Lord Tennyson wrote of the
charge at Balaclava. And blundered, we think, considerably worse.
Waaal now who blundered. A commission has been appointed—
possibly to white wash who blundered. I don’t know that it is in the
citizen’s duty to white wash who blundered.
I think the United States and even her British Allies might do well to
keep more in touch with continental opinion.
I don’t think anybody is going to whitewash who blundered into the alli
ance with Russia.
I think there are some crimes that nothing will whitewash.
I don’t think an alliance with Stalin’s Russia is lucky. I don’t think the
crime of even going thru the motions of invitin’ Russia into slaughter
and kill all eastern Europe is a NECESSARY part of the program;