LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

have NOT made it a war of honor. You could have made a hopeless
stand, a forlorn despair of an expedition into Poland, and been defeated
with honor. Of course it would not have been right at bottom, because
the guarantee to Poland was faked. It was not to or FOR Poland. But
even so, you could have made a gesture and been defeated with honor.
Can you not see that the outrage of the bombardment of Paris is but one
of a series of attempts to make real peace impossible, and to prepare for
the war after this one ? Needless hate—sewing the SEEDS of hate for to
morrow. Does it mean nothing to you that in this war you have inflicted
more and worse wounds on your Allies than on the people you said were
your enemies ? Can these things go on forever without some glimmer of
light reaching the British mind, to show the real causes of the conflict—
the real forces IN conflict ? Usury against peasantry, usury against
farmland, usury against every man who does a day’s work, physical or
with his mind.
Ah, against consciousless exploitation, against monopoly, against bank
deals and swindles. Against EVERY race in Europe that takes the
responsibility for being a nation and administering openly, as a
government in the eyes of the people.
Against the crawling slime of a secret rule, a secret and
IRRESPONSIBLE rule, that takes NO responsibility for the welfare of
races, and nations, but eats like a cancer into the heart and soul of all
nations. Even that where of its central staff is composed.
#20 (March 26, 1942) U.S.(B23)
McARTHUR
It is a privilege to fight against gentlemen. And the European radio
station seems to me to have been as ready to show respect to General
McArthur, as they are, and RIGHTLY are, to show absolute and utter
contempt and loathing for the war profiteers, and the gang of