LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

tank can make a good deal of head way against a bevy of Bedouins. But
you have to get the tank there, you have to feed and maintain its
incumbents, you have to feed it with petrol. Of course you can make a
desert, or make two deserts where before had been one, one desert and
one oasis. BUT then again, you have to take into account the cost, the
cost of life and convenience to the incumbents, of your Dupont or
Vickers tank as well as the taxes falling with increasing weight on the
home population, in Kansas and Missouri, for example. To say nothing
of the mental and spiritual degeneration of troops used against halfarmed
opponents under the airs of the Orient.
What sort of old age do you picture for the boy who is sent off to
machine gun women and children? Supposin’ he has one? And what sort
of bill is the American people expected to foot for the attempt to control
Persia and Mesopotania in concurrence with hordes from the Urals?
Your English loolahs spent a good deal of air on telling Germany about
Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the winter campaign and the rest of it.
Now wouldn’t it be better to stop and consider for a moment Mr. Henry
Wallace’s projected invasion of Russia from the Potomac? Wouldn’t
those arguments apply with still greater force?
I think you will be successful in kicking the British Jews out of Persia.
You have already the Bahrein Islands, which you reach via the Cape of
Good Hope. BUT Mr. Roosevelt wants also to police the more direct
route via Suez. Which has become rather costly. And WILL remain very
costly unless you precede it by a complete absolute and permanent
crushing of France, Spain, and Italy. I say permanent, not merely
spasmodic. If you put a permanent garrison into Europe, to hold down,
20 million Spanish, a few MILLION Portuguese, 45 million Italians, 80
or whatever million Germans, the Scandinavians and the Russians who
now wish liberation from Stalin. Just how large a garrison would it
require, and WHAT would the annual cost be to the taxpayers in Kansas,
and Californy? To say nothing of your Pacific commitments which
England shows no sign of wishing to share, having kissed goodbye to