LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Mr. Welles has made a distinctly anti-communist and anti-Muscovite
statement. And yet Russia is hurled upon Europe with the official
consent of the American government and the connivance of England.
The past record of these three countries on the issue of economic
aggression is not such as to tempt any among their old acquaintance.
Do his own work, and get his own provisions. That is what the Axis is
askin’ for. There were plenty of Italians down there in Africa working
their farms. Houses were improvin’. For twenty years we have seen
people gettin’ better houses, have seen straw covered shacks being
replaced by brick houses, built to hygenic specification, curved edges to
floors where floor joins wall, so as not to leave dust space for
tuberculosis baccillae. Every man his own vine and fig tree. Mr. Welles
ought to have spent more time here in Italy, goin’ ’round as I have to
Sicily, Apulia, and the Abruzzi. He ought to read Dr. Dietrich on German
homesteads. Homesteads you can’t lose by mortgage. Mebbe you better
MEET Europe.
Now what I believe, war or no war, not waitin’ till the war ends, or even
putting it second to any military contingency, I believe that every social
reform put thru in the Axis countries ought to be DEFENDED. I believe
the American people ought to defend those social measures. I will say, as
readily as the next man, that a good deal of opposition to the New Deal
was due to the worst possible motives. But I have not heard of the New
Deal gettin’ down to the debt problem. And Mr. Welles’ statement that he
wants to avoid economic aggression comes as a novelty. I hope he
means it. But the idea has not affected Russian policy in the past. It is
very hard to see how Mr. Welles expects to believe that Germany wasn’t
encircled.
As to the “patient toil of centuries,” seems like the U.S. was trying to
undo as much patient Italian toil as possible. And if he wants bygones to
be bygones, he certainly isn’t being effective about preventing there
being any more bygones.