LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

autumn, who is he to impede human carnage ? The folly of all mankind
ain’t nothing, but human imbecility gives us an idea of the infinite. And
in a way, as he said, do nothing about it.
Well, there is still time to learn something about it, still time to fight
against a peace that can be no peace, still time to fight against
widespread efforts to prevent the end of the slaughter, which efforts are
being made. I mean people are now trying to prevent the war from
ending. People have already planned for a peace like the last, a mere
parenthesis, a mere slow-up of munition sales, a mere disequilibrium
that will keep the world on tenterhooks between the end of this war and
the start of the next one.
You cannot sit in Ohio and judge the Balkans. You cannot judge China
from Omaha. You could read, and perhaps some American will some
day make a vow to read one old paper or magazine once a month, by all
means say three or six months old, and once a year read a still older one.
That might give you a perspective.
Unless you know at least as much about the past 20 years of Italian
history as is contained in old— —volume on “Italian Socio-Economic
Policy,” you will not be able to observe how much of old programs has
been recently endorsed by Barney Baruch. Nor will you be able to see
the price of confidence was— —article in October Fortune, A.A. Berle,
Assistant Secretary of State.
Well, when I was in Washington, a member of the Cabinet told me that
so far as he knew Barney was a patriotic gentleman.
Baruch now came out for a constituted price, a price in accord with
— —, a price that would guarantee just recompense to everyone who
collaborates in a final product.