LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

over? If so, can the State Department really assure itself or anyone else
that the American business man will consent to mislay or to lay off
economic aggression?
England and America made ugly, England pretty well gutted by
economic oppression? By the economic aggression that has reduced
England so largely to a C-3 population to national health statistics that
no British government bureau dares print. When you talk of economic
aggression or oppression your European hearers say: My God, their
whole life, the whole life inside both those countries is one compost of
economic oppression. That was what we were resisting. That was what
was held over us. God knows Italy wanted to work, and to EARN
economic freedom. She didn’t go round weeping and asking someone to
give her the earth on a platter, or any slice of the earth on a platter. She
sent out her roadmakers and plowmen. No, no, by right a colonial space,
land space ought to be administered by the folks who will use it.
Italy’s colonies never tried to hide living conditions. Which is NOT what
Mr. Welles can say for America’s strange ally Russia. Vide the Stalin
canal, vide all those known liquidations which lead the Christian Science
Monitor to say “the thing was not such in itself as to arouse
incredulity” (or whatever the words were. I am quoting from memory,
but that was the gist of it).
There is a great deal of undisputed and incontroversial evidence about
Soviet Russia that makes many things “not impossible,” not such as to
’rouse incredulity.
For every honest word, for every constructive statement in Mr. Welles’
speech in Toledo, Italy was and IS the United States’ natural ally. She
was England’s natural ally UNDER any system that had even a tendency
toward eschewing economic oppression. She was the natural partner and
guardian of one of England’s main trade routes.