LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

#79 (April 24, 1943) U.S.(C34)
CONSCIENCE
The Americans in French Africa have not a clear conscience. There are
probably no Americans in North Africa with a clear conscience, tho’
there may be some with no conscience whatever. An existence at
gangster level, with no velleity above wanting to bust something or
punish someone.
The American people have decency enough to know that they should
NOT be attacking Europe from the East while Russia attacks from the
West. And in the name of what? Of stealing French territory and British
trade?
I have mentioned the small boys in Trenton N.J. who played at being
Emperor of the World. Infantilism in high places! And Madame Chek,
on February 18, made a stirring speech to the American Congress
speaking better American than Sol Bloom and half the assembled
delegates, and with a better delivery than Mr. Roosevelt. I have no doubt
the audience fell for it as leaves in autumn.
It was an appeal to one’s sympathies. I should have been swept off my
feet if I hadn’t been lying down at the time, next to my radio. Bedside
habit of radio. The Chinese have a very old saying, that it is an ill omen
if the hen crows. Canta la gallina. Mme. Chiang’s appeal was clear
enough. Everyone wants their own country to be governed by their own
people. But it is Wang Chin Wei and not Mons. C.K. Chek who has got
back the treaty ports, the extraterritorial rights for his country.
And the grouped ideograms that are translated, “man of high character,”
indicate, unless I miss my guess, the men through whom and in whom
one hears the voice of his forebears. Order at home. China with 400
millions IN ORDER would indeed be an element for world stability. But
that order must RISE IN CHINA. In 300 or more years of history, in fact