LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Immunity from economic aggression means that nobody has to take stuff
they don’t want, merely because Russia, for example, dumps it onto ’em.
You probably did not hear Natalia Troubetzkoi telling you about Russian
dumping. That was some months ago. Russia was dumping in the hope
of creating industrial unrest.
Moscow was in fact sweating her workers unmercifully, and dumping
the results on the rest of the world, according to the worst plutocratic
methods. Hollywood and diverse other American sources of production
were dumping their products on Europe, and threatening to make war on
Italy if Italy didn’t go on buying what she couldn’t pay for. Of course
Mr. Welles may have had a change of heart. His heart may have always
been pure. But how can Europe know that? Mr. Welles’ firm seemed for
so long, so VERY reluctant to take count of Italy’s efforts toward
autarchy, of Italy’s effort to keep out of debt.
Oh yes, autarchy is just what the Avv[ocato] Nicoletti defined it as, in a
recent speech at Pisa. Autarchy is, among other things, the freedom to
keep out of debt. That phrase is sometimes used here as a slogan. It isn’t
my personal slogan.
To aggress, economically to aggress, to aggress economically is, among
other things to go out with a flock of cruisers and force someone to buy
what they can’t pay for. The whole of the past life of the S. American
continent is one long record of economic aggression. That is one side of
the picture.
Then he quite definitely and clearly mentioned the common man’s desire
to have a house of his own for his own family. That is what we believe
national socialism stands for in Germany. It is what Italy stands for. It is
quite emphatically what Communist Russia does NOT stand for, and
would not stand for by program.