ITA LY 1934

I can not believe that misrepresentation of any one
country can in the long run spread light in any other.
I think all discussion of Italy, outside Italy, in the
year XII of our era is academic. I don't think
it matters more than half a damn what lies are spread
in the various sinks of iniquity north of the alps.
If I had brains enough to write a good fugue or
to get on with Canto XLII, or if any British publication
were open to my views on economics, apart from the two
that already know them, I would not be filling paper
with perceptions of marginalia.

And when I finally figure out what have
sufficient mental pressure I do NOT spend my time on
marginalia.

I wd. cheerfully nail Ramsey, or Baldwin
or any and every other European cabinet blahbler to the
barn door and keep him there until he answered three
or four straight questions about economics, or told in
plain words what murderer's pimp paid him for muddling the
issues.

I grant that Ramsey and Balw Baldwin are too low
in the intellectual scale to be clear-headed villains.
I suspect ( in Europe and America ) a given number of
highly placed men of being out and out scoundrels and

and of being ready to help the next mass murder in
any way that will give them a monetray profit.

It is difficult for me to believe that a number of
prominent supporters of Mosley are supporting him
for any save the foulest of reasons. At the same time I
don't make out what is to be gained, in the long run,
by misleading statements about Italy, both pro and con.

what had been the relative status
Gross ignorance prevalis as to the status of parliamentary
institutions in Italy and in England. That is to say
in England there was an age old tradition. It Italy
there had been an ad hoc innovation in the time of Victor
Emanuel II.

Most comment on Italy is made on about the basis of
knowledge that we, be required to suppose that you can
use a steam tractor on a terraced hill side, under the
olives or between vine rows, where the terraces are
20 feet or 12 feet wide and from 6 to 9 feet high.

What emerges from 12 years of filth and slander, is that
for reasons not wholly clear to me, a number of fool have
need of a bogey man. When it was no longer possible to
convince the public that Mussolini ate roast infants for
breakfast, they set about confusing Italian fascism with the
hum's travesty.

Adolphe is an almost pathetic hysterик,
he appeals to my old friend P. Lyndham Lewis, he is, so
far as I can make out a tool of almost the worst hums

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The reaction against war propaganda is insufficient to raise Germany to her old pedestal as the home of the Kultur Mensch.

I know one intelligent german, I mean one who has an all round solid intelligence, I know one who is a damn fine Kapf, # but naive to a point beyond credence, I know a musical ace, who is civilized, and by god to be a german and civilized at the same time is no bed of roses.

But take the race as race, its average, as against its exceptions, it is the land of Bill the Kaiser, who is preserved as a biological specimen and on the theory that by letting him live one prevents his being condoned. The land of Van Pepen, who does in all probability represent the worst of Europe. Of an illiterate groos incult and idolized Hundenburg. And Adolphe is the best they can do.

"Voluntary work" is to be required of all Germans who expect paid work later in life ". He is a poor thing but their own. Germany is selling guns to France, whereas if Van Pepen had been at the head Germany would have been by buying guns from Creusot.

But what has this to do with the reduction of food prices and rents in Italy?

The salaries have been reduced, but the reduction does not affect the lowest salaries. How the reduction of basic food stuffs and rents can raise the cost of living is beyond my simple comprehension. It don't raise mine.

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Mussolini's objection to parliament is about the same as Maj. Douglas' objection, namely that these beastly deputies DO NOT represent the people's will or desire, and are too easily made the tools of the infamy that governs finance.

The new corporations will at least have different kinds of men brought into council, and not merely the stale beer-forth of professional politicians.

If either the Houses of Parliament or the American Congress contained 40 men capable of carrying on the debates indulged in at the recent congress on fascist doctrine neither England or America would be the slough of idiocy that it is.

What I write about Italy, I write as a Jeffersonian Republican Democrat.

If you disagree with a man why not DO IT?
Can such disagreement be defined by merely lying about
the other man's acts and ideas?
Knowing the state of the press, knowing the power of
DeWendel, Peterding, Rothermere, Herb, Lawrence, the Schneider fami
is it necessary to believe their foreign news or their
political news, when you wouldn't dead, drunk or asleep
believe a word of the local news, or their empire news; of
their commercial or armament news?

When will the British Reader wake up to the fact that he

is swaddled and blind fold. ?

I lived 12 years in england and the only englishmen who
ever knew a single g/d/ thing were the blokes that came BACK
from the edges of Empire. The rest believed what they were
told by the papers, they knew what the papers thought
fit for 'em to learn.

The "Havoro" of Genova prints the news about Stamp Scrip.
What London daily reported it ?

The editor of the N.E.W. don't believe in S.S. / all right
he is educating his public, but does that affect the
NEWS sheets ? Stamp Scrip may not be Douglas' best
burgundy, but it wd. be damn good on a raft. News about
it NEWS . America is 20 years behind. England in
aesthetics, because some nitwits in N.Y. still read
English. But England is 20 years behind the U.S. in
law knowledge of contemporary events, because she LIKES to
be that way.