Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-30
Ezra Pound Still Sees
Mad World Out of Step
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John Adams and for the works
OF Catherine Drinker Bowen.
whose biographies Of Adams
and Sir Edward Coke. the Brit
ish jurist. he regards as worth
all the history that Is being
taught In all the universities"
He spoke fondly of his grand
father. Thaddeus Colman
Pound, Representative from
Wisconsin Q87l-lSS2) and said
1T c. was asking for the same
things I am asking for In very
much the same style"
He said 1t would be a good
thing II some Of the sanity OF
the Greenback Party could have
been restored"
II. A. Sieber. author OF the
Library Of Congress report on
Pound, preferred a picture Of
the cage" in which the poet
was confined when first picked
up by American troops near
Pisa in l945.
Mr.. Pound said he thought
the report should be widely cir
culated. He was told It was
going to be put in the Congress
sional Record.
Views on Hoover
What about the teeming
animal life rushing up the
Capitol steps? How about hav-
ing 1t where they can get it?
What about putting it on sale
at the newsstands? There were
never any copies at the coll
sulates abroad. where they were
trying to hold the expatriates
together. thought when Her
bert Hoover came into the
White House the prejudices
against expatriates might d.
minish a little. / don't know
how you feel about Herbert
Hoover. Any man may make
errors in his youth"
Il ought to keep quiet for a
couple of weeks" he unused.
There are so many who speak
for me-"
You know. Ike invited me
to dinner once. Yes. when he
was president Of Columbia. I
was a member of the Academy
OF Social and Political Sciences.
He didn't know what he was
signing. I was in the hell-hole
at the time. The American
Institute Of Arts and Letters
never had the CUTS to throw me
out or send me notices"
i am not anti-Semitic," he
said. tEven those who hail
Pound as the greatest poet
blush for the anti-Semitism
which is rife in his works.
Il have been making Jokes
about Jews all my life. Fifty
years ago. we had Jokes about
the Scotch and the Irish and
the Jews and the best stories
you got we're from the Jews"
IL Years Of Silence
He went on to describe
abusively a Jewish visitor at
st. Elizabeths, then added. But
/ would trust Mr.. Cournos
(never further identified) a
damned sight more than VIM
ston Churchill" he concluded.
He stopped abruptly and
looked at the Representative.
I'm talking too much. I don't
have to tell it all in one day.
can come back. But you've
had a chance to talk as much
as you like. 1t is what you're
paid for. I've had the plug in
Tor IL years. When / was in
the gorilla cage. the guard said,
We've got a man here either
FOR two hours or two months,
but any man who talks to him
gets the box Few men Of let
terS have these opportunities"
II thought I was being flown 4
home to give information to :
the State Department. I could 3
see why q lot of this stun
shouldn't go to the public, but a
why not give it to the State q
/ could have a
been OF considerable use. In v
conquered country, the essen
tial thing is to separate the {,
honest men. I was paid 800 Il
lire about so centS) for writ
ing those broadcasts and $50 Z
lire for registering them. {
Damned lies. / never told the I
troops not to fight. They were /
in it. What 1 am interested
in is the American Constitu- I
ton" 1
Why did he make the broad T
casts? /
Mr.. Pound launched a bitter I
on former President b
Roosevelt, ending with 1.-The /
mildest judgment of Roosevelt !
Is that he was a fool" a
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