LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

making ’em understand octopus sauce, which is DElicious. I was havin’
rice, with octopus sauce, little octopi, young and tender, and before the
pair had come in, I had fished all visible bits of octopus out of my sauce
dish so as not to lose any tidbits. However, my persuasions were to no
avail, once they knew it was octopus. They had some other kind of sauce
with their risotto. After that I put my question, saying I shall probably go
to the microphone; can you tell me?
Then the lady said: Very … First place, sicher. We were using my
broken German as medium of communication. First place, no worry
about the outcome. And in the second, i.e., in 1914 our old government
MADE the war, started the war. This time our government did all it
could to avoid it. It might be time to recall that even in England reliable
parties admitted that Mussolini had done all any man could, to avoid an
armed outbreak.
Whatever you still think were the facts, I report this conversation. It at
least proves a point of view. None of your war muggers have, so far as I
know, adduced any evidence to the contrary. There were doubts, fears,
lies, but NO evidence. None of your spoutin’ pets has ever lined up to a
SINGLE ONE of my statements. Not for six years so far as I can
remember. That goes back to before the war. And I have told you what
Chamberlain’s chance was, AFTER he staved off one war, and WHAT
occurred in your dirty press within 48 hours, according to my lights,
thereby dishing England’s chance to regain her prestige. Chamberlain
could have had a European triumph of prestige, and England could have
jogged on for 40 years, and built up her own inner structure. Which is
exactly what some folk figger out, the usury central DID NOT intend
that she should do.
God knows I began noticin’ cracks in that structure about as soon as I
got to your island in 1908. And nobody has yet even accused me of ONE
subversive act during the interval. I am still stickin’ on with brother
Gibbs in these monologues. It may take me a month to get thru with