LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

that ends it. To send boys from Omaha to Singapore to die for British
monopoly and brutality is not the act of an American patriot.
#12 (February 26, 1942) U.S.(B17)
AMERICA WAS INTENTIONS
The Honor of the United States of America is NOT concerned with
becoming an arsenal.
The men who wintered at Valley Forge did not suffer those months of
intense cold and hunger with the design, or in the hope that
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, the union of the colonies would
one day be able to stir up wars between other countries in order to sell
them munitions.
I don’t want, the last thing I want, is that any harm should come to Uncle
Sam’s Army and Navy. The Navy is, some, of it, gone where I can’t
much help it. The Army can get on all right if it stays where it ought to
be, namely on the North American continent.
I certainly do NOT want American’s young blood shed in an assinine
attempt to wreck all European civilization. I don’t want it Dunkirked,
and I would like for Mr. C. Gessler to go on getting his bath at Waikiki,
if it ain’t too late to mention the subject. I have heard said that
Aguinaldo had and has as good a right to the Island of Luzon as George
Washington had to Virginia. I am not a Philippine specialist. I have
read on fair authority, namely on that of at least one participant, that the
British troops after the last war were about fed up with some features of
English government.
Dunkirk is one way to keep troops from showing their feelings.
Whether American air destroys the memory, I am not prepared to state.
John Devey kept his till ripe old age; and I am reminded of his quotation
from Burke on the penal laws, “an elaborate contrivance as well fitted