LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you have
murdered your empire, and it is this filth that elects your politicians.
You have lost your tradition. You have not even learned what Lord
Byron told you. You are, as even that foul rag the Times tells you, a
little late in making a start.
In the year 1942 Anno Domini, there is only one start you can make.
And that is a start toward being England. A refusal to be a province of
Israel, or an outpost of Yankee-Judaea.
Quando tutti saremo forti.
17 (March 19, 1942) U.K. (B21)
AND THE TIME LAG
Speakin’ of Fan mail. I got a funny lookin’ card the other day headed
Kriegs Statlag XXI A.
with the prisoners number runnin’ up into the thousands.
Dear Mr. Pound. If this card reaches you and you can manage it, I
would be very grateful if you will send me one or two of your recent
works on economics. Reading matter from England rather scarce at
present and not very enlightening.
Signed. So and so.
Well, mebbe this is all very flattering. But the point is the TIME LAG.
If a man has to be made a prisoner of war before he will read my works
on economics—what good does it do him ? Or let us say what
IMMEDIATE good. Of course he may be gittin’ ready to make a home
fit for a hero; in a new order England when he GITS out of
Gefangenenlager.