LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

The corporate state is a state in which representation of interests have
been revived, after its lapse in the parliamentary countries. I mean to say
the division of the representation is programmed to be by trades; if
America went corporate, I would be MORE represented in the
confederation of artists and professional men than I would be as a citizen
of Montgomery county, though I would or could also be a component of
both articulations. And the YOUNG men in Italy, and the Hitler Jugend
have nothing whatever to do with economic aggression. That ain’t the
way they are geared.
The Italians are, by the way, by temperament so full of the Renaissance
tradition that you will know a man for two years without finding out how
he spends his time. 1 mean he is autarchic, often to a surprisin’ degree,
whereas freedom in the anti-Axis countries has in many cases been
perverted or watered down into the one freedom, namely economically
to aggress onto everyone or anyone else.
Of course Mr. Welles was speaking interiorily. He wasn’t speaking to the
outer world as the representative of America’s, of the U.S.A.’s foreign
policy. He is merely part of the State Department and may have been
speaking in propria persona, as part of some local political strategic plan.
In which case, let us say, his aggression wasn’t in the least economic, it
was just political aggression directed against that soft egg Wendell
Willkie, or something of that sort.
Has the State Department participated in Mr. Welles’ view about ANY
sort of aggression? The speech is of interest, but it hasn’t exactly swept
the world off its feet yet. And the root question subsists: How is the
world to be expected to believe that any nation whose inner life consists,
and has so persistently consisted for the past eighty years, or more years,
in the absolutely unbridled, not to say, in the old sense, LICENTIOUS
aggression of the rich against the poor, of the money lenders against
those who do not print and coin money. How, I repeat, is the whole
world to be led to believe that unbridled economic aggression in the