LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

To sum up, Quisling’s plan might have averted war. It would in any case
have kept war out of Norway. Hence the abuse of Quisling in the
usurocrat, monopolistic, mercantilist press both Jew and Gentile. But the
heads of states should not be wholly subservient to the lowest and
yellowest papers.
#119 (1943) U.S.(14)
PHILOLOGY
I have mentioned Brooks Adams in these talks? I hope I have mentioned
his name often enough for it to have sunk in. I know of no better
introduction to American history or the understanding of the historical
process than Brook Adams’ two volumes, Law of Civilization and Decay
and The New Empire.
Of course you need collateral readin’, other history books, general
history of the U.S. No better introduction than Woodward’s. Can’t trust
it at all points but will give you an outline. Unjust to Van Buren and the
Adamses but clearly intended to be fair and not a mere smoke screen.
D.R. Dewey’s Financial History. Lot of facts, doubt if student ever
remembers any of ’em. No key, no clue, nothing in the whole book to
help the reader understand “what it is all about.” Nacherly it is THE
standard work in the universities. Universities for the past 80 years,
increasingly for past 50 or 40, have inculcated respect for lucre.
Adoration of money grabbing, bred taste for luxury, called standard of
livin’, above what student is likely to attain, and told him the great man
was the man who got MONEY, no matter how. Religion fadin’; religion,
church buildin’, a branch of the real estate business. All churches
mortgaged. Church buildin’, a means to get community groups to
borrow money.
Pete Larranaga, Gold Glut and Government, tells you something. Kitson
a bad writer in many ways, piles up obstacles for the reader, possibly