LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

[erected?] between author and reader a barrier more impossible than the
Greek language. No surprises like that can happen here in Italy.
What is the level of American general ignorance about the real nature of
Italy? I leave it to you, brother. You have been misinformed about pretty
nigh everything having to do with this old continent of Europe. That is
why you would have done well to keep out of European affairs.
The depth of American ignorance about everything in Europe
hallucinations is as bad as— —delusions, that Europe is what Sassoon
and Warburg has represented it to be, in— —giving you cream with your
oatmeal. Just like they made you [think?] the whole of Serbia was
composed of a gang of Jews, Croatian Jews in— —and— —. And that
is, they made you believe this gang of yids with New York connections
represented the farmers in Serbia.
And that goes on for the whole shabingo. You know nothing of Europe
and you go on believing what Roosevelt wants you to swallow, that is to
say, supposing even he knows what he wants you to swallow.
#97 (June 13, 1943) U.K.(C44)
TO THE MEMORY
You do not, not officially, YET know what the war is about. And you
have singularly failed to listen to the voice of reason. I don’t mean to my
voice. I don’t mean to reason as conceived exclusively in Rapallo. I
mean you have been such golthunderin’ asses that you have NOT, for 40
years listened to any Englishman (or alien critic) who told you anything
sensible.
I mean when I was last immersed in London, I don’t want to anticipate, I
don’t want to claim that I possessed more judgment, or perception when
I left you in 1920, than I had AT that time. Liberty is not a right but a
duty. That is an Italian saying. I don’t claim that I had anything more