LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Italy was resistin’ absolute slavery, had been doin’ so ever since that
treaty made at Versailles.
#86 (May 15, 1943) U.S.(D2)
ECONOMIC AGGRESSION
Mr. Sumner Welles’ speech at Toledo was a serious matter. It is a great
pity that even the majority of his listeners would have been unable to tell
one at the end of it what he had said at the beginning. That is, it was a
long and close exposition or argument. At the mercy of even minor
misunderstandings. It is a pity that auditors do not more often examine
the printed text of such a speech. The efficiency of the communication is
further impaired when it falls to translators, for the minor shades fade
out of language.
Who among the Toledo auditors now remembers whether Mr. Welles
said that the subject “economic aggression” probably was, or whether it
ought to be, in the minds of all of us. One Italian word translates next to,
and after, I mean that is when a translation is verbally correct at one
point, but does not take into account the whole paragraph.
Had I been making a daily or immediate comment I might [have] drawn
rash conclusions, or no conclusions whatever. The man reporting on
events of the day hasn’t time to chew over a text and place it in a general
scheme.
Probably few among you thought of correlating the Welles’ speech with
a talk made a week before by Mr. Agar, speaking from London on the
BBC and allegedly connected with the American Embassy.
Had Mr. Welles been ready to make such a speech three years ago, this
distressing war might have been quite well avoided.