LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

A new concept of civics has been built up in Europe. The old
mercantilist life went on, violently and unscrupulously. You won’t look
at the record. You won’t count the cost of having your ideas after a
TIME lag. Mazzini never got into the American curriculum.
The incidence of this war into a whole series of wars has had very little
publicity. I wish to God I could meet Mr. Welles or any other American
who wanted to get the thing straight. Mussolini and Hitler are not
enemies of the people. You sabotage a constructive effort, the effort both
of and for a new generation, by the process of going on with OLD wars.
Yes, economic aggression OUGHT to be checked. I don’t believe it can
be wiped out all at once, but it might be reduced to a minor tension, to a
tension compatible with making trade agreements, such as both
Germany and Mr. Welles advertise.
BUT there is the twin brother, or perhaps it would be better to say the
PAST tense, the aorist, or continuing past tense, of economic aggression.
Namely, ECONOMIC OPPRESSION. What about economic
oppression?
Economic aggression IS the prelude to economic oppression.
Now what is the U.S. record for economic oppression of weaker
nations? What is the U.S. record, or even Mr. Welles’ own record in the
matter of economic OPPRESSION of, specifically Italy?. Somewhere,
and some time, we should go into this matter, if Mr. Welles or anyone
else in the U.S.A. wants to clear up the tangle of political ideology, and
of geopolitical tensions. Or if Mr. Agar be so inclined. Let them put their
cards on the table.
There are other matters of detail: Does the destruction of the world’s
historic monuments constitute economic aggression? Does the scattering
of explosive pens and pencils, to be picked up by three and five year old
children, constitute economic aggression? Are these parts of a coherent