LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

You can not wipe out the past. You can not undo your lies, and your
cheatings, and your pretenses, from the question of Danzig onward. But
you CAN STOP. You can dissociate yourselves from the fools and
knaves, who have made you ridiculous by their inefficient deceits, their
caddishness to the French dupes, and so forth. You haven’t, historically,
a leg or a peg to stand on. You lied as to causes of war. You suppressed
truth. But that had already become a habit, with your Mendes, Edens,
Jecketts, your ape faced Beaverbrooks, and your stock jobbers. It all
falls back on your own heads. Your island is being cleaned OUT, you’re
cattle slaughtered. “As barren as her deck. /My sons shall see the land I
am leaving as barren as her deck,” wrote the greatest of your living
poets, Basil Buntin’. You have silenced your honest authors, or you have
[flooded?] out their speech with the sewers of Fleet Street. Your cranks
have stopped their ears with cotton wool, and now it is too late to help it.
You refused to hear your soldiers. You put aside all good council. You
covered over the facts. A year, nine months, ten months, you can not go
back on it.
Your Tommies have been sent to the slaughter. Your leaders have lied,
and kept silent. The little cheats are no alternative for the big ones. You
had better clean out the lot. I could have found you a better government
when I was in London in 1939. I had even then the wild idea that I ought
to try to TELL Chamberlain what he was headed for. I missed a phone
call. It is probably BETTER for Europe that you were governed by
fools, it is probably better for Europe that you cheated, and lied, and
dragged in worse fools from Washington to settle the Balkans. But your
government of idiots has probably served its turn and it has probably
done all the good that it can do. And you had better get out from under,
while there are still a few tons of beef left in England, and a few hens to
lay eggs for your population.
I am of set purpose writing this a few weeks before speaking it. I wish to
set down nothing in haste or in excitement. People who dislike you were
saying months ago that, if the U.S.A. came into the war, so much the