LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

You might pray for restoration of at least enough energy to follow your
natural instincts, which were to KEEP out of the war, and which are to
STOP fighting, now.
All of which is too simple for you to think of. You might stop the war
now, at least your part in it. Let it die down. You are in a blind alley.
Some of you know it.
#85 (May 11, 1943) U.S.(D1)
SUMNER WELLES
Sumner Welles’ speech at Toledo was a carefully prepared indictment,
which will hardly convince anyone here in Italy that Mr. Welles should
be taken to mean literally what he said.
It is a speech which arouses, and yet almost quenches interest. What he
says about America ought to be true. What he says against Germany
could, many people will think, have been said quite as truly of Russia, in
fact rather more so.
Mr. Welles spoke of freedom from economic aggression. No nation has
more soberly faced that problem than has Italy. Italy has done almost
nothing else for the past twenty-one years.
Mr. Welles admits that U.S.A. has not always refrained from economic
aggression in the past. He says with some cogency that all the British
empire trade preference policy was a form of economic aggression.
Olivia Rossetti Agresti over this radio has adduced a considerable array
of data concerning the rather cold reception the idea of Italy’s freeing
herself from economic aggression met with from the American
government, and continued to meet from that source for a considerable
time.