LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

worse for England, as Japan would absorb American products, especially
in munitions.
Few nations have ever made a worse showing that you have. France in
1870 did NOT drag down a half dozen innocent countries before her
debacle. Twenty years of your reformers’ warning were insufficient to
turn you from infamy. Many of you do not YET know your sin; or the
sin wherein you permitted your loathsome overlords to entangle you. All
you can do is to LAY OFF IT.
Stop shooting Frenchmen, and flogging Hindoos. Stop trying to extend
the war into still further regions. Lay off it, while there are still a few
loaves of bread left in England.
In 1939 I said: in wartime one farmer is worth more than forty lenders of
money.
As far as I can recall, no one in England would print that.
Some day you may know it.
#117 (1941) U.K.(65)
TWO PICTURES
On the 20th of November, two days after the anniversary of
SANCTIONS (52 nations vs. Italy), I said to the couple at the next table:
Would you say there was a difference of FEELING, I mean FEELING,
not thought? I said, would you say there was a difference of FEELING
in your country, difference in the way you FEEL about this war and
about the last one?
I was in my humble caravansary, the Albergo Rapallo, and they were a
pair of John Everyman. I should say PLAIN folk from Germany, of a bit
less than my age, but well on, past the middle. The waiter had a try at