LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

I will be ready to consider Baruch’s a patriot when he comes out
seriously for abolition of the national debt. He is far in— —that lives in
the new economics.
Now Berle’s article is very nice in the second half. It— —.
#11 (February 19, 1942) U.S.(A77) POWER
The President hath power.
The President has NO LEGAL power to enter into devious and secret
agreements with foreign powers. He has no legal power to cook up
policies with the late Johnnie Buchan and sign the nation’s name on the
document.
United States Treaties are valid when ratified by the Senate and not
before. The President has no legal power to enter into condominiums
with foreign governments, for the misconduct of scandalous islands off
the China coast or in proximity to distant oriental, or any other damn
harbors.
The President has no more legal right to do these infamies than you have
to sign my name on a cheque, or I yours.
There is no darkness save ignorance.
The labile, that is to say slidy and weak memory of past events is no
asset to a nation or statesman. Looking back to an unsavory part of our
American past we find it more savory than the present. Whether
Roosevelt has mental stamina enough left to learn anything from his
nasty forerunner and foreslider, Woodrow the codface: I know not. But
men of mental capacity above that of a wart hog ought to be able to look
back as far as 1914 and 1919. Woodrow resisted clamor to get us into
that war. When he came in, he was in accord with the will of the people,
a will which he had not faked or concocted. The Allies won that war,