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Lincoln, John, June 17, 1948.
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of Columbia where not a single resident enjoys voting citizenship, or in South Carolina where only 1% of the residents is privileged or dares to vote at elections, or in Mississippi 2%, Texas 5%, Alabama 6%, Tennessee 7% and Arkansas and Virginia 8%. How can this 100% to 92% of political as well as economic voiceless serfs utter a word against the power of their tyranny? And our State Department with effrontery criticized the elections of Hungary where 69% of the people turned out to vote, as compared with our purchase of 12% in Greece.
I cannot see how Dr. Einstein, nor anyone else, can expect our own thinking veterans and citizens, much less thinking Russians or other peoples, would willingly or blindly again be corralled while Herbert Hoover, John Foster Dulles and General Draper hunt for another scapegoat wallpaperer, while no court nor Un-American Activities Committee subpoenas a single Nazi-Fascist principal to strip them of all wealth and power. The British, Dutch and American accomplices rejoice that they have thus far defiled justice and the scapegoat only has been sacrificed.
We fool some of the people with empty slogans and by hanging up this lovely backdrop of Antitrust legislation. But this thin veil hiding the blade promising to annihilate trusts, has, according to our own attorneys general, actually nurtured the monopolies and cartels to their wold-threatening power of today. Canada also has had to appoint a committee to investigate why her Combines Investigation Act has proved to be not only as impotent but as treacherous as the legal loopholes in our own antitrust legislation. Obviously these international monopoly