LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

or a landlord of my room in Church Walk, or some of the humbler
GOOD people that I met at one time or another, who are the right sort of
English, WHAT have THEY had from your system? Or takin’ it a grade
or two further up, when I was last over in London after a lapse of ten
years, about the time Gibbs was writin’ his book, a good poet motored
me out to a suburb and looked at the shoestring building and said
“Jerusalem in England’s pleasant land” with FULL understanding of
usury, and the dry rot and wet rot. And then went into the Army the
minute this was got going, knowin’ what started it, but wantin’ his own
hands clean from the beginning. What do these people, who are the
BEST of England, expect from the union of Mr. Churchill and Mr.
Gollancz’s book club?
#118 (1941) U.S.[?]
QUISLING
Mr. Roosevelt seems determined that England shall not get out of this
war alive, and that there shall be no end to the war until the English have
been Dunkirk’d out of Cape Town and the Americans had a try at Dakar
and the Azores.
It’s a hard life, but we have an Italian proverb “chi la dura la vince” [he
who holds out longest, wins]. Similar proverbs doubtless exist in other
languages. But on the supposition that the war may end sometime, either
before or after the collapse of Western civilization, in either case it will
be necessary either to continue civilization or to start another, and Mis-
INFOR MATION or policy based on ignorance is not recommendable
for either purpose.
Several American publications have mentioned the UNWILLINGNESS
of their political bigwigs to learn facts about Europe. If their editors are
sincere in these expressions, it might be well to start on the case of
Quisling. No man has had more mud and slime flung at him from the
sewers of British newsprint.