My Dear Forbes Dennis

Can you get a danger signal " across ". In
this case the point may be too fine for publication. "nearest
editor evidently don't see it.

The Chemical Foundation is putting out clever propaganda
I don't know who they are. ( sounds like Mond, DuPont etc..
but all Foundations are suspect, when faced with the
malevolence of the Nic.Butler Carnegie fake.)

Geo. Peck has written the a pamphlet, with flattering
reference to the President, it is published as if the President
had authorized it. ( Which closer examination shows that he has
NOT. ) At any rate Peck praises ARITHMETIC as pure science.
Which is O/K/.

He states the the President has made a contribution
to the SCIENCE. ( Which will certainly be news to the Chief
Executive ).

Peck then proceeds to print some statistics in
dollars.

Whatever the truth of the dollar accounts
as presented ( and let us suppose then true ). They are NOT
arithmetic the pure science. The science of NUMBERS, numbers
being true by definition , but monetary units varying like
apples on a tree.

It is quite possible that Peck has fooled
himself. Which is his personal play-ground. But someone with
more time than anyone in office is likely to have , ought to

make sure that polished sophistry of this kind, does not
pass for science, when it comes to deciding whether the
nation shall eat.

One party or another will have to choose between Coughlin's
good intention; and the Baruch, Morgenthau, Lehmann clique,
whom the people certainly will not tolerate once they are
isolated and seen.

Warburg's second book seems to be as funny as his
first, i.e. just as funny as Huey Long. Minor shades of
ignorance, with difference of intention.

5 May 35

Dear Phyllis

Cheer up! a similar calamity was the making of
Hemingway! in his case it was two years work.

I can't read the name of the alternative to
Harpers!

ANY mag/ that is read by anyone under 50 wd/ of
course be more USE than Harper/

it is merely the irony of
considering the old lice as finally oferred to advertise me
that caused me to suggest 'Harper' Scrib/ or the 'A tlatte.

I don't suppose there is a Worse/words in the building.

Wordsworse

At any rate, why drag in the old sheep. unless that also is
skittles.

The MOST useful practical ACT you cd/ committ by the article
wd/ be to drive some damn state education board to use
b my ABCs ( both reading and econ ) start using
in the schools, highschools, freshman college.

And of course the general clarification/ as per N/S/W on
Private Worlds? which you shd/ by now have recd.

via Marsala 12/5

Rapallo

rest/p nine/ the god damn driveling idiocy of the
english/

precisely to get somewhere inhabited by
living men/

And you, having been blanketed by ENGLISH publication
system/ and undeling beg/ simply don't know that
europe is inhabited/

Went to Paris 4/ years and then here / because
there IS some mental life/ whereas London
a mortuary.

page II/ Byron had almost no technique/ question of
his character irrelevant/ or in fact it is all
he had, apart from rapidity.

and the question of "few critics"/ WHAT critics?

I2/ impatience of minor detail/

refusal to accept minor detail
out of place and as red herring.

technique ? now without detail ..

impatience with the brute ignorance of

manchester guardian notwits/ and Times reviewers who
are hired BECAUSE they are ignorant, and therefore never
sure enough of ANYTHING to state it forcibly enough to
annoy the vermin who read that tosh and who od/ get
withing reach of that louse Richmond without slagging his
slimy jaw.

The English are a nation of groveling coar cowards
beyond any known species of men.

The kind of inaccuracy for which half wits Aldingtons
etc/ have howeldge has been in 85% of ye the cases
sheer brute ignorance on THEIR part / and their
being cemented to fixed ideas.

They do NOT stand up to answers/ they die in ignorance/

A fool in Detroit says my J/M is wrong because
he has READ and article in the American Mercury.

p. I?

P/ IJ; cont. exaggerate/ better get moderate expression.

when TOO FAR from dance... i;e; some point m ch further
than Jack or Mozart ever go,

re/ singing you got care before horse/

music too far from dance/

poetry too far from music/ is the order of danger
plimsoll mark etc.

The text of the Villon, whatever one like or dislike, was that sitting in electricians kitchen in Rapello I could HEAR the words

as WORDS when sung in London. the sense
of the words carried ( and is I believe intensified by
the music.

vide also Make it New/ Date line.

// re/ cfo econ/ ?? pouring into theories/

? applying acid test to theories of C/H/D/
and the whole historic process/ including relation
of C/H/D's sense of justice to Gesell's invention
and the practical working of the corporate state.

possibly first to see underlying bases of harmony
in all three.

I strongly dislike dragging in private life, either of
myself or anyone else.

apart from all question of your really
knowing NOTHING whatever about my private life during
20 years/ and its being irrelevant to

especially as I have very strong beliefs
which I do not consider it opportune to publish.

I mean that yetter on certain subjects from me NOW
wd/ invalidate or cause stupid delays
in the MAIN and more immediate struggle.

There is too much in yr/ last page or so, that
I might have to contradict / and yr/ real ignorance of
the specific case is too great for you to venture to
write about it.

At any rate I decline to be used as advertisement for
soothing syrop I don't believe in.

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

June 15, 1935

My dear Miss Bottome:

Mrs. Roosevelt gave your
letter to the President for con-
sideration. However, he fears
that the credit system is not
practical under present conditions.

Miss Phyllis Bottome
Seissl Haus
Kitzbuhls
Tirol, Austria

46 Lexham Gardens,
London, W.8.

December 14th 1936.

I write to you today in the utmost bitterness of
spirit. We feel that we have seen the strangled end of de-
mocracy in England. King Edward was one of the _most_ universally
popular - perhaps the only universally popular monarch England
has ever had! All the young realists knew that he stood for
the modern world. All the intellectuals prized his honesty;
all the poor and suffering knew him for their friend. He has
been taken from us without being allowed to state his case
until he had abdicated. He was never allowed access to his
Dominions. He was refused a broadcast. He was refused the
press when he first suggested the copying of an excellent
article in the American papers explaining the American views
on divorce. He was prejudged and driven out of England with
ninety per cent of his people wishing him to stay on his own
terms. He was hurried into a crisis where no crisis was and
pushed to make a decision before the coronation because his
ministers well knew that they couldn't have got away with it
afterwards. We happen to know several people who were in touch
with the whole business; the mother of a court official -
the family of the chief conservative whip - a friend of Winston
Churchill's - a member of the chief whig families - and a personal
crony of the King's when he was Prince of Wales; and putting

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all their reactions together plus the facts that have since
leaked out, I fancy we have as good a chance of knowing what
went on, as most people not directly involved. The Prime
Minister with the help of two old churchmen staged the business
Mr. Eden, who disliked the King's interest in Foreign politics
had the Yorkshire Post (which with the help of the Manchester
Guardian guides the North) in his and his family's pocket.

Mr. Baldwin collared the Times. The rest of the Press was on
the King's side but had no time to get solidly into line, with
the facts so sprung on them. The Manchester Guardian, which
can usually be counted on to go straight, was completely muz-
zled by it's nonconformist conscience. The King was caught
like a rat in a trap. His mother who was passionately on his
side was kept quiet. She did not approve of a divorced
daughter-in-law but she wholly believed in her son and wanted
him to remain King. But the silence enjoined on her by Mr.
Baldwin was turned against her and not till after the abdica-
tion was she allowed to speak as she felt. I think you have
only to read and compare the short, earnest, honest words of
the King himself to the long skilled manipulated hypocrisy of
Mr. Baldwin's brilliantly handled stuff, to see who had right
on their side! One speaks as a man the other as a Politician.
One had his heart behind his words and the other his career to
salvage. We were asked to lunch yesterday with a man who had
seen the King with Winston Churchill and heard a first hand

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account of those awful last hours. His Ministers - but chiefly Mr. Baldwin and the Archbishops - hounded him down, pretending all the while to serve him! The only adequate description of Mr. Baldwin is that of the Walrus in 'Alice in Wonderland'. "With sobs and tears he sorted out those of the largest size, holding his pocket handkerchief before his streaming eyes." If what he said of the King in his farewell speech was true he should never have let such a paragon go! If it was a lie why should we be asked to trust a liar? The facts against the King (and there have always been plenty of facts against everybody - were: That he drank. No-one has ever been able to say that he was incapacitated by drink from doing his duty. No doubt he drank as most men do and a great many women, who can afford it. Modern nerves seem to need more drink than is good for them. He chose bad friends. Probably some were, and some weren't. He was a man of character and chose his own friends. He disliked the British "upper classes". Has any one been known to like them outside of their own cliques? No, the real reason for getting rid of him was that when he came back from seeing the Depressed Areas, he said, "Something must be done;" and meant it. Parliament had no choice in the matter as it was prejudged before any one had a chance to protest. The English Labour Members wanted to keep their incomes (small enough anyhow!) the people were completely out of it. But I think there will be a backwash and that this

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step so taken will be the beginning of the end. It is too big
a matter to be swallowed in silence. Ernan has been more
heart-broken and enraged than I care to see. He personally had
spoken to the King in the War, at three different stages of his
career; and has all an old soldier's love and respect for a
Prince who wouldn't be kept out of the Trenches. I hope you
get our King and know how to treat him! Would he have been
worthy of our respect if he had given up the woman he loved?
Would any decent and honest lover give up their man or woman
for a wilderness of Royalties? Why should we demand such a
sacrifice? Think of history where you would say from the
facts that most Royal marriages were built up out of adulteries!
But we got rid of a modern king because our Churchmen did not
countenance morality as we now see it. They preferred their
passions to be kept dark.

We are in the act of passing through Parliament a
Marriage Bill, in order to avoid a moral stigma being attached
to divorced persons. A. P. Herbert said in the House (the
same week in which we deposed our King for this reason)
"Divorce is a release from misfortune, not a crime."

We have stepped out of the march of democracy. We
have refused a link with America that might have given us
world peace for ever.

We are the laughing stock of the world, and, to
confront Mussolini and Hitler, we have Mr. Baldwin and the

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Archbishops.

Religion is no defence for this act of old fashioned malice. King David, in spite of Bathsheba, was a man "after the Lord's own heart", and far from being forced to abdicate, was chosen to found the race of the Messiah. Christ himself was called a Wine-bibber and a friend of princes; and when asked by the Pharisees to pass judgment on a breaker of marriage vows - turned his back upon them, and wrote in the sand!

All through history the Church has been against the truth and Christianity for it; but it is the Church we have listened to, and against Christianity -as Christ himself showed it to us - that we have hardened our hearts.

Dear Phyllis/

I come back to read yr. letter and nearly
burst a blood vessel at YOUR IDIocy

The Manchester Guardian is
the most god damned lying and corrupt rag in England/

it is the house organ of Imperial chemicals. It is so
rotten that Baldwin can not be more so.

As to Eden/ it took me months to find out who his pa in law
is/

BUT you Britons were so blinded by League infamy and
blater that you wd/ listen to nothing and
slimy Tony the
barg barber's boy was ENGLAND's darling.

NOTHING wd/ wake you. Well
perhaps the framing of the King
has been a blessing.

At least you NOW see that the Guardian is NOT invariably
a clean sheet.

I hope you will AIMATE someday that it has
NEVER been clean in our time.

I met one of the chief pimps/ forget his name/ Guardian
louse II who was in Rome last year.

and gave him this
view of his damned paper,
to which he had no reply

( our host enjoyed himself, though being most ed/ not join
in the analysis of the Guardian.

Have ANY of u you NOW learned the rottenness of
parliament/ and do you YET see that

the Daily Herald and the Socialist or Labour
or whatever you call it/ Atlee and co/

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is but we should be quite useless if we did not find out before poinc
-g how best with our small significance, to tackle this agile pachoderm

We must remember too that Edward had all the cards in the pack
but he played them with great impatience and indiscretion. He had only
to sit tight and refuse any question of his marriage until after the
divorce and the coronation had gone through; and with Mrs. S. on the ot
-her side of the Atlantic no one could have stirred a finger and the
press (largely on his side throughout) would have filtered the idea into
the ear of England and given it time to soothe our bat-minded conscience.
We have given up the Manchester Guardian promptly and by waiting
and watching the different characters and parties we have decided to
throw in our lot behind Winston, so long as he seems prepared to serve
our Country on reasonable lines. We do not agree with you about Sam
Hoare we think him merely a different type of sneak with a better sur-
face. I am distantly related to him and know some members of his fami-
ly intimately. They are all hard and fast reactionaries who would
rather die than think. They were all out to cut the King's throat.

I don't know what was behind Thomas but suspect that he was more
honest and more keen on fair play than was at all convenient at the
moment. I think Edward only went to those Vienese R.'s because he liked
them. I met one for an afternoon's talk, looking at Landschaften after the
war, and he was both intelligent and charming. No one could stop him
visiting whom he pleased. His B. B. C. talk was his own with a little
editing from Winston, but he was not given access to the B. B. C. until
after the Abdication had taken place. We heard it on a good receiver
-t Ivor Novello's flat, after those weeks of sleepless nights, married

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all day by that poison-boulted Prelate and your ' obese Bank Pimp'
it was a pretty good simple utterance of a man 's heart! The empathis
was very human, the voice rang out and underlined " The kind of King th
-at I would have wished to be. " and after the loyal praise of his
family, turned cold at " my ministers gave me every consideration. "

There are no organizations that Ernan could get into
touch with not fooled and tamed by Baldwin and Co. The only hopeful sig
-n that we can see is that the whole country feels and looks baffled an
d dispirited. There are the usual Christmas crowds but they are un-
smiling and without vitality. Everything is being cooked up as fast as
-d as far as possible but cooked up food isn't nourishing and people
get tired of it. The Archbishops Broadcast was pure help for few peop
-le failed to see it for the canting malice that it was.

" The Truth is great and shall prevail

When none care whether it prevail or not,"

We shall try to get at George, if it is humanly speaking
possible from the depths of our insignificance. It might be worked thro
-ugh our Kitzbuhel end/ia Edward. He is the best and most likely person
to keep his brother forewarned and forearmed against his enemies; after
Christmas I hope to get more direct information as to what is suggest
-ed politically. As to the Labour Party one cannot see how they can
face having been bamboozled out of the chance of a lifetime. I could dr
-aw you up a list of such combined knave and fool trickery in the few
different businesses and professions we have come into contact with
in this last year as to surprise even you. Perhaps you remember my
little ill friend. She had a severe attack of schizophrenia a few
months ago from which she made a complete recovery. While insane the do
ctors kept her out of a mental hospital but when they were satisfied so

Dear Phyllis and Ernan

Believing as I do that Baldwin is
the son of Bell and that no degradation etc/etc/etc/

I mean nothing I can say to a lady applies to ANY of the
Cabinet save Sammy Hoare.

who is suspected of common honesty

I am naturally glad to get yr. letter.

The Muse has already sung in mine ear/ but I do NOT expect
British imprint.

It is damned unfortunate that Ed/ has gosh!H gone to the seat
of international finance/

I suppose he was shephered there by
" friends ".

He had some nasty ones/ Coop Duffer and Sas on being
without that aura of righteousness which p spreads e beyong
hypnosis of a hired press/

Eden as you know I consider 100% stink.

Perhaps the power of USURY
and the banks will dawn on the ex service men.

As you know, I have for 16 years been advising Englishmen
to learn WHAT governs their island.

The Italian press has been sober/ The Gazetta del Popolo today
very serious on Edw's turning crown land into garden plots.

Tell his ma from me that the U.S.A. wd. elect him president

( but for mere technicality of his having been born in England
..and after all we are NOT a technical people,
an amendment wd. get over that.

I do NOT despair. Edw/ knew his brother much
better than we do. And If Geo. VI regards himself

as bound by his brother's promise/

It is the greatest joke
of British reaction since X. Columbus discovered America, and
we yanks pitched taxed tea into Eaaastun harbour.

The EHH usurer's son in law/ and the obese bank pimp wd/
find it extremely difficult to run out ANOTHER King
at the same tempo.

All one can do is ones utmost to prevent Geo/ from trusting
the men who ditched his brother.

The POWER as I have been trying to get into yr/ head. is
in CREDIT CONTROLL.

Geo. VI having been to Cambridge 20 years ago
had his head stuffed full of DAMNED LIES/

but may have shed a few of them.
The slickness employed in eliminating EDW/ shd/ cause thought IF
requisite organs inhere anywhere in Britain.

The mechanism whereby it was worked was ANNOUNCED several weeks
before the fat bish of Bugs and the Y/Sh/ or Beckett owned
Postt came into action.

Was EVEN the farewell speech edited ??

Is Ernan in contact with any exservice organization ? There is
so far as I know NO reason to suppose Geo. VI is tainted by
Baldwin's wangles.

I see by todays Ital/ papers that he has
replied to the Arch louse of Cantingbuggy, with great firmness.

I have NO idea what will get printed in Eng/ and, of course,
an American is not in position to do more than record
coldly the facts/ or as coldly as disgust will permit. Ideally
speaking one shd/ be calm/ on the other hand
a dirty deal is a dirty deal/ and no call to
admire it, save a feat of technical slickness// as
which it is consummate/

save that the Canting Uction

If his head's full of Pigou
We are in a bloody stew

But if he sat with Keynes
It wd/ muddle better brains

Than the keptun's or the bozun's or the crew's.

Dzer P/B

Cheering nooz that Geo. V. took ECONOMICS at Cambridge.

Say that 20 years ago ! HELLL !! since when he has lived
in the doll's house and done some boy scouting !!

Waaanall/ Gor's save him.

Been meaning to answer yrs/ with care.. and haven't even now time to
do so.

This is to ask what you know of Collin Brooks. I have had
a decent and friendly note from him. I wonder if you wd.
ask him to dine and find out how far the " popular press "
wd/ go toward a CONSTRUCTIVE program.

C/B/ knows a little.
Naturally if he knew MORE he can't keep his job. It is
vagueness in their OWN minds that permits these blokes to
stay in the pop/ press.

At least you cd/ find out from him
how far Mail and Dispatch wd/ go..

ALL

and whether they realize AT
that " something " must be done. More reaction at this moment
will NOT keep Eng/ out of chaos.

And nobody can dig a ditch or fell a tree with
a "envenuto Cellini bronze statue, or complete
and detailed scheme.

Would Brooks himself come out for Thirty hour week and work for all.

The shortening of the working week APPEALS/
I have always insisted that it WOULD precede other reforms.
ONLY AFTER it is tried can a great number of people see that
the DEFECT in purchasing power REMAINS.

I said this in Impact.

I am; god damn it, as readable as ANY other god damnd
economist. but that dont mean that I circulate.

Tho' I did get to 300,000 in Esquire by waving my feet.

(Incidentally Al Capone's " right hand "
seems to have read my " Mug's Game "
He has just been run out of
Poland for trying to be a FINANCIER.

say so.

at any rate four Italian papers

If he didn't get the idea from Esquire it must be
endemic.

I said all other crime was mere child's play and
brought trifling returns by comparison;

Can you give me any exact information re/ Sasoon and Goop Duffer

both look like dirty pieces of work. but as NO news is
ever printed in England, one can merely guess in the dark.

vrs

76, Bedford Gardens,
London, W. 8.

8th December, 1953.

My dear Egra,

Of course I will gladly write to you, but it is no
use your scolding me to read or study things that are off
my line. I am 70, and I work as hard as I can and learn
as much, but what I really want, and what I am trying to
do in my own way is to see how to make a better human being,
(or rather I do see how!) along the lines of individual
psychology. The Adler I studied and continue to study, was
Freud's opponent, since he believed that man could be
improved only by teaching them to love their neighbour as
themselves, whereas Freud used to say, 'Why should I love
my neighbour as myself?! This psychology can be taught to
replace an egocentric education, but of course it is better
still to teach it before the egocentric education has taken
place!

You would be amused, and I think interested to watch
how Erna restraints badly brought up and pampered children.
All I do is to try to get the main idea into my own head,
and this I find takes up all my time and attention!

We have just come back from two months in Europe,
where we touched down on four countries, though most of the
time we spent in Italy. You probably get first hand
information on Italy, but I am telling you what we felt
ourselves, and as you know, we are old lovers of both nation
and people.

I doubt if any country, including Germany, suffered as
Italy suffered from the war, and certainly Germany, prosper-
ing greatly now, has made a far better material recovery. I
thought Italy appallingly miserable, the people bitter, under
nourished and utterly discouraged, but of course this does
not mean exceptionally intelligent people. The food
scarcity is quite obvious, only people with a great deal of
money can get real food. Probably in the country things
are much more normal, but in the big cities there is a lack
of hope and a predatory feeling, which is, I am sure, the
edge of communism. I think they had the war in a worse way
spiritually than anybody else, and now they are living from
hand to mouth on America, and the terrible contrast between

P.T.O.

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I often think of what you used to say about our Press, and
I believe that it is still true, and that no country of our
importance has ever been so grossly underinformed about what
other people think than we are.

What I loved most abroad was being in the Tyrol
again. Partly because mountains were for so long our home,
and partly because the people, who have always known freedom
and practised it when they could, seem to me to have a better
approach to life.

We got back to our London home November 1st, and I
think shall settle down here for the rest of our days and let
Cornwall go. We are on the top of Campden Hill, in Haydon
Coffin's old house with a stable cottage behind it in the
garden, where we have a friend-pianist who can play to her
heart's content without disturbing anybody, and very often
plays to ours!

Faber and his daughter Ann come and see me sometimes
and I hear of T.S.Eliot through them, but don't see him. I
have just been reading Virginia Woolf's Diaries, and it has
been very interesting to come on all the old names I used to
reverence when I was a girl, and see what has become of them.
Virginia herself was a wonderful craftsman, but I don't think
she ever got clear enough as a human being to do herself the
justice she might have done. Rose Macaulley I see sometimes,
but she has frozen into a thin little ghost. Margery Fry,
Roger Fry's sister, is a delightful woman, and I hope to see
more of her as she is a near neighbour. I think on the whole
you would find that your name is more alive than any of these
old heros and heroines of our time. I seldom read any serious
criticism without coming on it, and always with a thrill of
joy, because I love to think you are giving to life, and that
perhaps a little wind of it blows back on you and Dorothy!

With love, to you both from us both !

Yours always,

Esra Pound Esq.,
Elizabeth Hospital,
WASHINGTON, B.C.

"Red Willows",
St. Ives,
Cornwall,

23rd November, 1954.

My Dear Ezra,

This is really an interim letter just to show you that I am
not in the sulks.

I have not been very well for some time, and I have had a
marvellous motor trip abroad for six weeks through France and
Switzerland to our little old stone villa on the Lake of Orta and
am just returned. As soon as I settle down having tried to lauch
some music, of which you will approve, we should be off to "Red
Willows" for the winter where I can do a little quiet work.

I love getting your letters and I'm in touch with a very nice
young man called Richard Davis, who seems to share one of my chief
interests. He is a very intelligent young man, but I have only
seen him once and all I can make out is that I think he is nice and
feel he is disinterested and that he belongs to the inspissated gloom
school and therefore has no hope of anything. He is one of those
active pessimists who usually get things done.

I was delighted to find a long article about you in some
catholic periodical and another one which told of an interview with
you and Dorothy and said you looked wonderfully well and that you
had a sort of group meeting in the garden most afternoons. I
should like to be there; you could then throw your precious balms
at my head as often as you liked.

Now I will just say a few words about Italy. I found Italy
lively, but appallingly poor and the people extremely bitter in
consequence. Nevertheless there was no ~~compathetic~~ or apathetic
feeling rather "let us dig someone in the ribs and pay them out!"
Communism is, of course, rampant and must be wherever poverty is
so intense. Still I have the feeling that Italy was both less
miserable and much more lively than when I was there exactly a year
ago. I did not meet anyone of importance, because the village of
Orta has no important inhabitants; but we know the people very well
there and they talk to us very freely.

France was tragic. I had no idea until I saw it with my own
eyes how appallingly the two wars had destroyed not only the physical
things, but the spirit of France. It seemed low and the people

we talked to nothing like as lively as the Italians. I suppose
being "occupied" is worse than fighting. Nevertheless I believe
that Mendès-France is really doing what amounts to a miracle, but
whether he will get the backing that even miracles need is, of
course, doubtful. You know what we are, we like to eat our cake
and have it and we hate to pay for it. Island people are not good
sharers and much as ever depend on U.S.A. We are the tail that
the dog wags; but some times we won't wag!

Switzerland was an expensive paradise. Never have I seen
any country where people were cleaner, happier, more healthy and more
honest. They even enjoy a little art for in most of the big towns
they subsidise concerts and have a great many book shops out of which
some-times something must be sold!

I have a new book, which is a collection from my talks, and
which I will shortly send you and am half way through another one,
so I am not as lazy as you like to think. I am also lecturing this
month though then, I am stopped by doctors for the rest of the winter.
I am glad of this for I lecture for nothing and, though I enjoy it, I
some times don't know why I do it since I always find it interrupts
my writing. The point of it is that you do really get in touch with
audiences and their questions - and I always make question time
longer than lecture - teach one quite a lot!

You say that France has nothing but old writers - that
may be so but she has a whole lot of young reviewers and some pretty
good playwrights, besides that every French man or woman with whom
we talked, and we took every opportunity to do so, seems to me to
think.

Germans are everywhere, very rich, very satisfied with
themselves and all out to lead the world. I do not like them and
I never have, but it is quite astonishing what they have managed to
do with what we have fondly supposed a conquered country!

My love to both of you always, and I am so pleased to hear
that your son is studying Persian and probably making a career for
himself in that strange land. Ernán joins me in sending you both
our most constant love.

Yours always,
Playllo

P.S. The most interesting part of our motor trip was that we took
it with two 40 year old men, one of whom, Nigel Forbes Dennis, is
Ernán's nephew and we had charge of him for three years between

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RED WILLOWS, ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

TEL.: ST. IVES 298.

Saturday, 1st June, 1957.

My dear Ezra,

I am against persecution - persecution of Jews, persecution of negroes, persecution of poets; so you can surely not be surprised if you see my name in lists supporting the freedom of artists, whether they are black, yellow, white or pink.

As you once seemed to be very interested in the Psychology of Alfred Adler, of Vienna, I am sending you a copy of my amended Third Edition. When I wrote "The Life of Alfred Adler" in 1939, owing to the Nazis occupation of Austria I had to leave out a great deal that might have endangered Austrian friends. I have now been able to fill in these gaps and I have also added several Chapters, one in particular, "Organ Jargon", which Arthur Koestler was specially anxious for me to write. I wish it could be better still, but my lack of scholarship as well as the difficulty of getting hold of early material from Vienna when it was under the occupation, have been serious obstacles.

I think of you and Dorothy with the deepest affection and on this, my seventy-fifth birthday, I send you a special message for your own birth-day - a year ahead of mine!

Yours always,
Ayllia

Dear Phyllis

I naturally do not favour persecution / and if you got
your idea from kasper's writing and not from the kiko-Rooseveltian
press

you might take a different line. I used to say that the next time
I was shot it wd/ be for preventing a pogrom.

After eleven years under the rump of Baruchm Dexter White and co/
I am not sure I wd/ bother.

I still protest aginst decent people being duped, partly by their
own laziness

I doubt if you have read the Talmud / or recognize the
principle of degradation.

talmudic principle, FDR practice. data if
you have patience to inspect 'em.

AND the principle of irresponsible oligarchy, i.e. that of the
Kahal. "have you read any Rosaniv ?

And will you K note that the kike D Israeli substituted this kahal
principle in yr/ poor blighted England / and that col Louse and
Woodie Wilson let 'em get away with it in LBHH 1913 / with subsequent
outbreaks of hostilities.

The violation of all principles of eugenics / the sidetracking of
endocrinology / etc.

You might be usefull employed on food polution/ or Beria's
instructions /

Of SHHHH course the rat in the Fattycan, I suppose scion of
the Usury House of Pacelli

in NOT opposing the destruction of
Contemplatio ( of the divine light) and concentrating on the
bits of filth in the sewers /

to a hell if there is
one.

tell if you can see

Wonder did you ever come on Autobiography of Andrew D. White /
( who did not see thru the last veil .. but who ought to be required
reading for all college presidents .

OR if you wd/ read Mr Kasper's essay in current Virginia Spectator
if I send you a copy, supposing I manage to get a few extras.

I enclose an outline of events as since 1919 / NOT based on race
or alledged creed.

If you can indicate and specific errors, please do.

How bout St Ambrose .?

To see decent americans under the heel of these charlatans
/ OUGHT to stir some objection to tyranny / and an attack on
diseases of thought ( above any racial barriers) might lead
to greater clarity of perception

than the tosh re/ pathology.

especially as the more intelligent men are coming over to use of
drugs instead of notions .

How to find language to persuade you to distinguish between
flushing a sewer and hunting for BITS of filth in it ??

Or to arouse a little curiosity re/ historic FACTS .

you aren't too senile for an attempt
even if you are a couple of years older than yr/ present correspondent.

Stock has now printed useful matter/ including trans/ of Zielinski.

If you get wind of ANY honest periodical pubctn/ in Britain do
let me know.