Stationary. Defenders o t Americ. Constitution. del V/ Coffman
Pomeroy.

Oct 31 . 1955

Mrs Ingrid Davies
1 Cheyne Gdns,
Dear Mrs Davies

We spent a delightful hour with your good friend
Ezra Pound on Thursday last, after various formalities had been
attended to, permitting us to visit him. He was in the grounds with
Mrs Pound and Professor Giovannini who is writing some good things
about him. Mrs delValle and I chatted along with him, and listened
largely to what he had to say, and we were both very much enchanted
with his tremendous intellect and very deep knowledge of what
affects this country and all countries today.

Some publicity has been given lately to his unlawful
detention in an insane asylum when he is saner than ninety percent
of the people outside of this institution, and I believe something
can be done toward his release, and will look into the matter as
well as I may.

Mrs delValle joins me in sending you both, and to Admiral
Domvile, our warment rehards and best wishes.

PAdV: BMM

Lt. General P.A. del Valle

28 November, 1955

Troy Hill, Box 240, Rte. 4, Elkridge 27, Md.

Dr. Ezra Pound
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Congress Heights,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Pound:

We have yours of 23 November. My thanks and Mrs. del Valle's for your invitation to come see you whenever time permits us. This we deem a great privilege.

I have now other copies of the Stratmeyer-ADL exchange and so Mrs. Pound may use her copy as she sees fit. The more circulation it gets the more will the patriots be informed of the best and most courageous manner in which to deal with the Zionist MVD.

Concerning Yankowski, we are not presently in a position to offer him work nor to pay him even the most modest emolument. I will ask hereabout to see if anyone could use his services, pro tem, but of course this is the beginning of the off season for farmers and the chances are not good.

I don't know if your little friend Ingrid informed you, but she wrote asking for a job as governess here in this country. My reaction was that she is far too young and pretty and had better stick to her husband. She does not realize the dangers and difficulties she might face in an assignment of that sort, even if there could be found anyone whom we could vouch for to offer her the job.

With our best compliments to Mrs. Pound and yourself, and trusting we may soon have the pleasure of a talk with you,

Sincerely,

[1955]

Task Force, in alarm at a plethora of bills introduced in Congress and various state legislatures concerning "mental health", and in particular the one setting aside a million square miles larger than the State of Rhode Island for an insane asylum serving the 300 or so mental cases currently developed in that territory, (HR 6376) has now had its attention brought to the implications of HR 7427, introduced by Representative Flood of Pennsylvania, which sets off another alarm in the "thought control" field. We reproduce the piece as submitted by one of our readers:

## CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE

### H.R. 7427 (in toto)

### (comment)

It now remains to be seen whether Comrade Flood will get Mother Green into jail before she gets him deported to Alaska.

From;

The Defenders of the American Constitution, Inc.
1255 New Hampshire, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Citation for Senator George W. Malone

To be presented January 17, 1956

This, our first BENTON MEMORIAL AWARD, is offered to Senator George W. Malone in admiration of his lone and magnificent fight for protection of the American producer against murderous foreign competition. It is painful that this fight should have failed under an administration allegedly Republican, for if the Republican Party ever stood solid for a basic and main issue, that issue was protection of the native producer against cheap foreign competition.

The history of such degradation goes back at least to the ruin of home agriculture in Italy under the Roman Empire, depradation which led toward the decline of Rome. The ruin of the English yoemanry is in the same awesome tradition, and the tragedy of the American Civil War was due in great part to the distraction of the people's attention FROM the tariff and the problem of monetary issue. The so-called "Reciprocal" Trade Agreements Act is the spawn of the ravaging idiocy of our own time -- the interference with other peoples' affairs, before showing any competence in dealing with our own.

That this presentation may not lapse into empty complement for past action, we ask Senator Malone for leadership -- leadership in returning to Congress its Constitutional power "To regulate commerce with foreign nations:" leadership in finding means to publicize the essential parts of Congressional debate. We ask whether his mountain state can help us to spot-light such events as the presentation of ideas in the Legislature; whether the Nevada schools can take the lead in resurrecting the study of our nation's history in such a way as to prepare the growing generation to meet the same old problems that have faced every generation whose liberties are undermined?

Senator, as a token of our respect and admiration for you and for your patriotic and courageous action, we present you with a memorial of a great precursor, Thomas Benton, Senator from Missouri.

P. A. del Valle, President
Lt. Gen. U.S. M. C. (Ret.)

From the Office of
Senator George W. Malone

For Immediate Release

Senator George W. Malone (R-Nev.) today was presented the first Benton Memorial Award of the Defenders of the American Constitution for his long and continued battle against the 1934 Trade Agreements Act.

The Nevada Republican on January 12 introduced legislation to repeal the act, which he has opposed in every session of Congress since he became a member of the Senate in January, 1947.

Lt. General P. A. del Valle, (U.S. M. C. - Ret.) President of the Defenders, praised the senator for his "magnificent fight for protection of the American producer against murderous foreign competition."

General del Valle's statement was amplified by Brig. General Merritt Curtis (U.S. M. C. -ret.), Secretary of the Defenders, at presentation ceremonies held in the Senator's office at the Capital, in which officials of the American Coalition of 100 Civic, Fraternal and Patriotic Societies participated.

General Curtis, terming the 1934 Trade Agreements Act a menace to American labor, industry, standard of living and national security, told the senator:

"It is because of your exemplary grasp of the subject and your dogged refusal to compromise the principles of the Constitution that we are proud to have selected you to receive this award.

"The misnamed "Reciprocal" Trade Agreement program, he continued, and its international aspect, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the so-called International Organization for Trade Cooperation, or any others of the same ilk are extensions of the New Deal efforts to subordinate the economy

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of the United States to world politics and foreign manipulation, and are the facade
for the economic one world."

"The Defenders of the American Constitution, like yourself, Senator, are dedicated to help preserve and rekindle faith on the Constitution of the United States and to teach the value of our Constitution and its system of free enterprise."

Mrs. William D. Leetch, secretary of the American Coalition, told the Nevada senator that the organization, by resolution of its representative members have indorsed his "leadership to take us back to Constitutional Government through the regulation of foreign commerce by the Congress of the United States."

Senator Malone, in accepting the award, quoted from the Constitution, and pledged to continue his unremitting efforts to restore to Congress its Constitutional powers, abandoned by Congress in the Trade Agreements Act.

The award, a rare two volume edition of the historical works of Senator Thomas H. Benton, of Missouri, covering the period of 1820 to 1850, was published in 1854. Considered a collectors' item, it contains a revealing and detailed account of the expansion and development of the nation.

1-17-56

COPY

The Defenders of the American Constitution, a nationwide
organization whose purpose it is to restore to its original concept the
Constitution of the United States, is very pleased indeed to be able to
present their first annual Benton Memorial Award to you, Senator Malone,
as a token of our sincere appreciation of your long and splendid fight
against extension of the 1934 Trade Agreements Act, as a menace to
American labor, industry, standard of living and national security. It
is because of your exemplary grasp of the subject and your dogged refusal
to compromise the principles of the Constitution that we are proud to have
selected you to receive this award.

There are those among us who would abolish the Constitution of
the United States despite their oath to protect it. There is already in
print a world constitution that would wipe out our United States Constitution.
One-worlders would bring about the development and transformation of the United
Nations Organization into a world federal government with power to make,
enforce and interpret world law - whatever law it might be - not ours.

A vital part of all one-world plans includes a division of the
wealth and resources of the world in order that the standard of living
shall be uniform throughout. He is blind indeed who does not see that
the misnamed "Reciprocal" Trade Agreement program and its international
aspect, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the so-called
Internation Organizations for Trade Cooperation, or any others of the same
 ilk are extensions of the New Deal efforts to subordinate the economy of
the United States to world politics and foreign manipulation, and are the
facade for the economic one-world.

COPY

The Defenders of the American Constitution, like yourself, Senator, are dedicated to help preserve and rekindle faith in the Constitution of the United States - rightly called the "civil bible of Americans" - and to teach the value of our Constitution and its system of free enterprise. It appears to us that the dangers to our Republic from within are the gravest we have to meet.

The purpose of the Benton Memorial Award is to revitalize an interest in American History by choosing legislators who have shown an independence of spirit and a clarity of thought on the floors of the Congress. It is hoped thereby to encourage determined effort to hold fast to the basic qualities of our Constitution despite the prevalent, current trend on the part of Congress to centralize all power in the Executive and to surrender American interests to unstable and undependable foreign nations.

The award, a two-volume set of Thomas A. Benton's book - "30 Years' View", is the first to be made by the Defenders of the American Constitution and we feel that it is eminently fitting that you, Senator Malone, should be the first to receive it.

It is named for Thomas H. Benton, who served as Senator from Missouri from 1820 to 1850. In his book he presents an eye-witness report of some of the great congressional battles of early American history.

The Defenders feel that Benton's fight against the infamous salt tax and his struggle against the privately-owned "Bank of the United States" exemplified that legislative spirit "necessary to meet the type of problems that have faced every generation whose liberties are threatened".

Lt. General P.A. del Valle

2 February 1956

Dear Dr. Pound:

Your note with enclosure "from the
Portuguese" by Cape Cod at hand, and many thanks.
My campaign is to open in the February Task Force
with an article on the Miller case plus a reprint
from a West Coast Newspaper which Pomeroy and I
deemed appropriate.

It now comes to this. We must know
from you how you feel about our battle. Do you ob-
ject if we mention you by name? Do you prefer that
we leave you out of it and proceed on the general
thesis of the current barrage of "mental health"
propaganda and bills? Would you give us your best
recollection of the events leading to your present
situation? Please feel perfectly free to act as
you deem for the best. Tell us nothing or tell us
all; let us use your case and appeal for freedom,
or do nothing to disturb you. We shall honor your
decision and your confidences in any case.

I would like to have Mrs. Pound's ad-
dress in case there is something to be transmitted
not for the eyes of the censor.

The Benton Award got a little notice,
which is more than we patriots can really expect
in this year of our Lord, 1956. We hope Dave's
exams are soon conquered and he will rejoin us
in this desperate, but not hopeless attempt to
slay the dragon before he destroys the Constitu-
tion and with it all our liberty.

Our best compliments to Mrs. Pound,
and with all good wishes,

12 Feb/ P d V

Kasper is now the ebbullient possessor of
an offset press, and is rarin' fer a DAILY paper, forwhich his
equipment is NOT the best, but he argues ( correctly ) that
something OUGHT to be done at once.

I am sending him a maquette of the possible, IF expenses can be
absolutely guaranteed until November.

You will have see the notice re/ Barron. Who shd/ be interviewed
when he gets back from Chicago. plus Williams california bulletin,
plus Peters ( IF he can work with anyone else) plus
the electric typewriter used for 'enton presentation. PLUS
a few experienced journalists.
Plus excepts from foreign press ,

AND a telegraphic news is
expensive , usually bowdlerized, and monopolized etc.

Given a dozen proper correspondence, who wd/ send air letters
once a week, sd/ HHHH correspondence having at least some
vague idea what it is all about ...

one wd/ have at least
more knowledge of the outer world than the members of senate
and house foreign relations committees.

A minimum PAID full time staff of FOUR people wd/ seem to be
necessary.

Enthusiasts have to eat. Rav. Thompson complained that Mosley
NEVER cd/ understand this. To insure REGULAR air service from
London, Paris, Bonn, Roma', and less frequent but
regular letters from Tokyo, Formosa, Melbourne, Bagdah
(Bagdah.might be got for free ), as might Cairo, at any
rate I shd/ thik $25 minimum per letter. But my ideas re/ the $
may be pre 1939.

I dont know whether you ever saw the Capital Daily which folded
in that year for lack of $10,000 /

believe subscription was $25
for service of producers who wanted early news of what the
Govt. was going to BUY.

That stunt wd/ need experienced man.

Someone wd/ have to listen to radio / at least one man
get round Cap/ Hill and interview more people than Jenner and
Malone.

all of these items look to what can be got
for the MINIMUM of expense.

With this there wd/ POSSIBLY be 12 pages, double column,
type face as in Malone presentation.

2/

High liquidity, NO reliance of advertisment, no allowance
for any possible income from ads/ No sources open to punishment
by recall of loans.
What they did to O.M. was to

What they did to O.M. was to subscribe etc/ but when he noticed
matters of importance , what had been REGULAR support m counted
on regularly , let him run on for three months in
expectation. After which he had to cut down , fired 70 men in one
week in order not to go bust.
K's ambition was 5000 copies, I think @ 2 cents. tho there
was no time to discuss 2 OR 3. hh two wd/ be better. ) to my old
fashioned eye. )

I recast a dantescan line for my daughter last week

seder tra anti-sofica famiglia

not first time in history that group of y.m. have been vividly
conscious of the shortcomings of each other..

The BASIC principle is local control of local " affairs"
anti-segregation is a ticklish special case. Constitutional

anti-segregation is a ticklish special case. Constitutional
government seem to me an avowable POLICY for a daily , and
NEEDED. K/ found enthusias in Alexandria. Pegler's nuissance
val is $7 million. Does anyone knw Baukage ? Godwin is
probably fully occupied.

Obviously The Defenders should guide any such paper if it
gets started.. Or perhaps , being unacquainted with all save
two of the defenders, I should limit that to saying P d. V.
should do the guiding. Three young men will listen to
yr/ anonymous crspdt. and a fourth one has broken a bone in his
foot, so his non-arrival at S.Liz for appointment a fortnight
ago, has valid alibi.

Supposing a start with the poor equipment, electric typewriter and
offset, Nowt could be done, before March, better say the Nones
as the Idea has connotations.

Rex( 'af you know whom I mean) writes: Ike is purty sick but
he'll run if he has to crawl.

quetion of veep seems to me the vital one.

with regards alla'entile Signora

K found plenty of resentment against Meyerization, Bird
machine for Moncur or whatever its called.

14 Marzo

[1957]

My Dear General

Thank GAWD you do. I had no idea who " BillH " was
but thought he might have missed Lope de Vega's play on Chris.
Columbus ( Nuevo Mondo Descubierto , or some such title. )

Even Alaska and Kasper's cooms are being used to keep attention
OFF the mail point.

cordially and unoffendedly yours

My great aunt's lost hotel / Ford's experience with "Transatlantic
Review" / la " prnesce francesc "
pensee
run in J.York on
jewelers' advertising, though apparently impossible to
but plain gold chain fHHH to support lorgnette, etc.
it all coheres.

benedictions and salaam to the Lady

P d V. 27 Marzo

I think Hester's letter in Star , 20 th inst very important, not for novelty but that the Star printed it/ I think Task F/ shd/ reprint with comment about as follows :

These are the facts that Meyer and the paid press , Roosevelt and Dex White's friends have been concealing quite effectively for over 40 years.

The responsibility rests not only on the obvious enemies of everything worth while in American life but also on the columnists who have decent intentions.

Frankfurter
It is not only Javitts, Winchell, THHH and co/ but also on decent men like Pegler and Manion, and it is to be hoped that the latter will be able to use Mr Hester's note now that it has been printed in so mild and usually inoffensive a sheet as the Star.

Fulton Lewis

( possibly better not use that insult to Star. )

"as anyone any knowledge of who is Hester ( R.A.) of the Maryland Peti Committee.

I will try to get you a copy of the letter if you haven't already seen it. Mr Israel Cohen, 1912, definitely advocating mongrelization and the destruction of the U.S.

The total faith of the communist-Cohen program as printed by the latte in 1912 should finally turn the stomach of even the deaning american liberals and tamed, tolerant, ignorers of everything but the last wash of brain-wash, including the executive and 3/4 thsp of the State Dept. personnel.

Lt. General P. A. del Valle

16 July, 1956

Mr. Ezra Pound.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Congress Heights,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Pound:

My first impulse is to write
a personal letter, which will probably never
reach Brownell, and if it does will be ignored.
Then, allowing sufficient time for a reply, to
follow up with this blast as an open letter,
sending copies to Pegler, John O'Donnell, Ful-
ton Lewis Jr., and various others who might give
our ball an extra spin.

Following this step I would seek
a prominent lawyer to take the case on as a
patriotic gesture or purely in the interests
of justice.

In consequence of the seriousness of this matter, would you please give it your consideration and give me the benefit of your advice on modus operandi, psychological approach, and English composition. Of course I'm certain you will erase errata and make such addenda as would appear to you pertinent and useful.

With all good wishes to Mrs. Pound
and your good self from both of us,

OPEN LETTER TO ATTORNEY GENERAL BROWNELL

Dear Sir:

Your attention is respectfully invited to the case of
Ezra Pound, an American man of letters of international renown who
has been confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for nearly ten years.
It is understood that this man was accused of treasonable conduct in
the early days of World War II. The accusation arose from broadcasting
against our entry into that war from Rome, Italy. Brought to trial in
this country immediately following the end of the war, a ruling of
insanity was made by the trial judge, who thereupon committed him to
St. Elizabeth's.

Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution states that treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

We have evidence of the fact that Ezra Pound is not insane, that nothing in his conduct during his confinement would lead anyone to suppose he might harm himself, his fellow citizens, or his country, were he at liberty. An opinion from a high source has been obtained in confidence, that Ezra Pound cannot be held in St. Elizabeth's for any medical reason, but only because he is a federal prisoner.

Ezra Pound is now a man of seventy years, the last ten of which
were spent in an institution for the insane, ten years of torture.
There has been no conviction of treason, as was the case when Alger
Hiss was tried for perjury. But Hiss was sentenced to five years in
prison, and released after about three and a half years for "good con-
duct."

Ezra Pound, considered by some as America's greatest poet, and certainly a man of exquisitely fine intellect, is left to rot in a place worse than prison. No "civil rights" organization comes ranting about constitutional rights. No lavish wealth is forthcoming to finance his struggle for a hearing. We are reminded of the devilish plot known by the name of the Great Sedition Trial. Men and women who disagreed with the Roosevelt administration as heartily as Pound were herded together into a mass trial which was the most scandalous trawleyzty on Justice ever to take place in this once free country.

In these circumstances this appeal is made to you upon grounds both patriotic and humanitarian, to take the necessary steps which are within your power and province, to set Ezra Pound free in the name of decency and justice.

Respectfully yours,

P.A.del Valle

19 July '56

Dear General del Valle

Thanks very much. The letter to ( or
toward or AT ) Brownell is excellent.

Have you yet see the Stickley analysis of Beria's program. ?

I have been objecting to fiction. I still object to any
tangling with the legal machinery as long as Frankfurter
is on the Supreme Bench and one gets assurances that no
fair trial and no real justice is possible.

The one interesting point that Egler dug up in Italy as
that re/ their intentions before they had caught me, and before
I had attempted to report to the American authorities, other
than by letter to the American Embassy or Consulate in
Switzerland.

MacLeish says Brownell is no use. There are still points
one could clear up in conversation and that would take a large amount
of correspondence to get into clear perspective.

There are now several military and naval men who seem aware of
the general facts, and the general location of the treason.

I have not yet found any adult in the legal profession ready to
consider the real aspects of the case. :

The citizens duty to warn his own government of facts, for example.

How many of directors of Task Force agree with you ?
I can spot one who probably odes NOT.

They are ( to change the subject) having some sort of beano re/
the Charter Oak, in Connecticut. But the constitution seems to be
fairly unpopular , un-Republican , un-Democratic in other
quarters.

Apart from Judge Pine, who has used the bench to uphold the
Constitution ? and he had the whole steel industry behind him ?

The last lawyers I saw wanted to TELL ME, without getting the
facts.

I don't want a false defence against a false accusation.

This note is made of separate jabs, without much connection between 'em
but I am still filled with heteroclite curiosities : How much of
the army and navy is with you ?

Is there anyone who has the patience to follow the four steps
by which I arrived at S.Liz ?

Or rather the four which preceded by perusal of ten vols/ of
Treasury reports ( i.e. of the ten pages in same, that

2/ It is your sentence re" prominent lawyer " that worries me.

I can't think in the abstract. Years ago they mentioned Lloyd
Stryker.

I have had NO regrets for NOT having called in
my late fellow-alumnus , football star and son of " Prexy" S.
younger

As far as I make out they have just shoved a judge onto the South
who has openly declared AGAINST constitutional government.

this statement may be an over simplification.

AND a lot of 'em seem to be running up a blind alley as they did
before 1860.

Anyhow, before taking further action, can you let me know by return
post whether you have seen the Stickley on Poria ?

Having waited eleven years, it wd/ be a shame to let slight
imprecisions, at this time, waste the whole effort.

Absolutely a question of individual personalities.

Both Hobday and Peters seem to be in TOTAL pessimism, and
their approaches are, to put it mildly, different one from the
other.

H/ granting everything I say. Peters apparently TOTALLY
inaccessible to quite simple ideas that have not entered
his statistical and detailed calculations.

What he KNOWS is O.K.,
but the idea of ADDING thereto meets a deep alergy.

May interest you to know that a marked copy of Task Force reached me
from New England, so you have at least one young lady reader
north of theeson-and-Dixon. (a stranger, a catholic)

Also Tokyo Rose got out, but Sally didn't. Or if so there was
no mention of it in the Meyerblatt and other purveyors of part of
the news.

, NOT that there is any correspondence between my position and
Sally's failure to get a hun passport. Or even with Best and
Chandler, who had, so far as I know, good intentions but could
never have got freedom of the microphone from the Berliners.

It might be a good thing, re/ Ciardi, enclosed to start educating
the public, there were no gas ovens in Italy, but the yanks haven't
been TOLD yet.

No one is accused of antikikismo until they monkey with question of
monetary issue. Doc. Williams (W.C.) can write " one of those
fresh jews, that one wants to kill on sight."

Picabia, re/ Andre Herman can say: Je peux pas etre dans la meme piece
avec lui, j'ai envie de le tuer "

Joyce can portray a member of the Blum family (not the most loath-

3/ Viddischer Charleston Band " was published by two of 'em in an % anthology and served to amadouer the very kikietrist who, at moment of my extreme exhaustion, tried to implant a guilt complex in my remains.

not having been soaked head down in a tank but having been fairly well fatugued.

The point being that none of these actions is considered "anti-semitic". etc.

London

an ex Miss-Rothschild has her preyy fyce in Picture Post ( or some illustrated weakly ' as patroness of Cocteau, now that he has entered several academies, 35 years after what I believe to have been the first eloge of his writings in the Dial, and the appearance of HHH J.Hugo's trans/ of his Cap de Bon Esperance in the Little Review.

May be we ought to do a little MORE educating, impersonally, before trying litigation.

Peters evidently had not see the " Current" on Commies / and started to copy out/ as marked in enc./.

Peters, by the way, has worked out % of devaluation, and figures re" constitution " of capital/ but the idea that $1000 can be saved it takes the simple partic longer to save $1000 than it does bankers to make a billion out of the the north wind

does NOT seem to penetrate his statistical occiput.

Nor does the phrase " non-interest bearing ". ( let alone the concept of negative interest, MINUS not plus. )

Wonder if could persuade you to talk to Hobday ? who seems to have personal access to, and receive letters from " individuals " in our " government " /?

/' admittedly in the zone of " After Cato died there was no longer any republic ", but acquainted with those who use the party lable.

Quite a contrast with the pal of Truman's cronies who turned up here six or so years ago.

Saluti alla gentile Signora.

( Hob)

Whether he knows any LAWYERS, I haven't yet found out, we both talk a bpstreak, though he is easier to break into than Peters.

nobody in t his country ever meets enough people , save at the cocktail party level?

P.P.S. the unpteenth.

4/The run around.
as when x went to France re/ Keefe /
the Slop 'ept/ for 9 years kept up the frontage that the matter
was inexpressibly difficult technically , that not condemned
one cd/ not be pardoned.

AND people as educated as Eliot swallowed it. as if there was no
nolle prosequi.

Hmmm Even now one does NOT arouse interest in M law or the
constitution.

AND , I suppose the adults get scattered . Dick Uberti's father :
" people used to taking orders "

ANYone read to THINK of the significance of the 'prosecuting
Attourney for a large city saying simple:

" All I'm interested in is BUBK , seein' what you can put over ."

One ≠ wants direct personal contact. Hjammerskjol ( never can
get the jjjjs in the right place) remarked in a speeck re/ the
Va Bill of rights

that somebody had to have some guts

( this is not a literal quote, but he referred to Electra
in Canto whatever )

Census at moment shows ?? twelve people with nome, cog/ ed indirizz
in the Marines , navy and army or shall we say the " armed services"
to
but lawyers have not got the front pages YET .

I sent a draft law re/ press lies TOWARD one who was said to
want to preserve some fragments of the constitution , but haven't
not had an answer.

There is that beutiful sentence of H.James " I shd/ be married to
a dissolving view"

One kikietrist wanting my view of improvement of hell-hole said
they were interested in doing it cause " there were going to be
MORE of these places. "

Just like Brek Long's " Oh , Hull ! " . The spoken word
occasionally reveals so much more than the worder intends.

I don't spesé you have a tame architect who wants to build suitable
containers whom the nervous and braken ?

Box 240 Rte 4
Elkridge 27, Md.
6 October, 1956.

Mr. Ezra Pound,
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Congress Heights,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Your several notes gratefully
received, and if I do appear to be a poor
correspondent it can only be ascribed to my
inefficiency in tying myself up with more things
to do than I can possibly manage. Please for-
give.

Two things prompted this letter:
one, your little booklet with comments from
Hemingway. I would like to communicate to him
my desire to do something practical about the
thing he advocates in your case. Can you fur-
nish the address?

Another thing is the letter to
Brownell which I sent. Could you explain to
Horton your wishes in the matter, any changes
or suggestions you may have concerning the
text or the manner of employing it? I dislike
letting things slide along and would come to
see you often if I were not intolerably en-
meshed in the tangles of political action of
a most difficult, and for me, most unusual sort.
But Horton could let me know and I would imme-
diately set forth on my errand.

You know how gratified I am that
you think well enough of me to continue to
write when I've been so remiss. I do pray that
God will, in His wisdom and mercy, guide us to
victory somehow. The Spaniards have a saying:
God squeezes but does not choke. Mrs. del Valle
joins me in our good wishes to Mrs. Pound and
yourself,

P d V

13 June

[1957]

Where does one start to get into " mind" of elector or
boob, the fact that it is NOT necessary to swallow the first
bit of bunk passed to them by some cookie-pushing punk in the
Slop Department ?

Didn't there use to be brit/ army slang " the things they tell
to the yankee civilians "/?

Did I say yester, that the calm Meyerblatt account of Carter
meeting

OMITTED mention of nigger with gun strapped to his hip ?
which he got rid of before arrival of police ?
lady's handbag ?
possibly into some JH

europeanization of yankee politics ?

[1957]

12 Ag

Dear "eneral del Valle

Kerr was on the TV last evening and so far above Ike as human value that although I am thru a long life and in preceding generations by heredity a republican I should certainly like to see Oklahoma in the White House.

The ONLY object of presidential calibre I have seen on the fabled screen.

Am not sure you didn't tactfully ignore an earlier question of mine as to whether Ike had ever been within smelling distance of gun powder ?

I leave military matters to Fuller (JFC) who knows certainly more than I do about 'em. So far as I recall I have heard senators refer to Ike as a man of arms, but no military bloke seems to have referred to him as a soldier.

My amateur impression has been that he heard that one about an army traveling on its stomach, and was an excellent grocer / elegant box luncheons, of course after the quant and qual -ity of food in the nomans land between yank and kraut, the effect may have been greater than on the troops who didn't seem to appreciate the flavour fully.

The one known military operation, or alledged one, was that he turned loose some niggers to rape germanfrau and farulein in the Berlin underground.

which, since it seems to have got printed is quite likely to be a slander.

Kerr needs a vol. of Benton less than the rest of 'em but certainly ought to be Task Force freelist, if the Defenders go into for distributing their BOMBER beliefs.

Saluti alla gent/ma Signora.

4 September, 1957.

Mr. Ernest Hemingway,
Finca Vigía, San Francisco de Paula,
Cuba.

Dear Mr. Hemingway:

Our mutual friend and distinguished man of letters, Ezra Pound, is, as you know, confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C. It is my belief that you are interested in securing his release, and the object of this letter is to determine whether or not such is the case. If you are interested, there may be something you can do to help those of us who are trying in our blundering way to accomplish this.

Discreet, off the record enquiries have adduced evidence that there is no reason to detain him insofar as his mental condition is concerned. Indeed, we have this in confidence from the highest medical authority: He is not confined because of insanity, but because he is a federal prisoner.

We have ample evidence that his indiscreet broadcasts from Rome were not treasonable, nor in support of an enemy. But aside from that, we consider that, if Alger Hiss, who did commit treason in passing secret information to an enemy was punished with a five year prison sentence and let off with considerably less for "good conduct", the detention of one of America's most brilliant poets and philosophers for over ten years is a rank injustice.

We have heard from certain sources that there is a movement in the Congress to investigate his case with a view to securing his release. We have also heard that Milton Eisenhower has said that Pound would only be released over his dead body. These are undocumented statements, but may give you an idea of the climate in which our operations must be conducted.

I do not wish to bore you with this business unless you are in fact, interested and willing to pull an oar in the boat. The foregoing are brief notes on the case. I have myself had the delight of two visits to the great poet, and have come away with a feeling of reverence as well as affect ion. We correspond occasionally. I also came away with a feeling that, if America can do no more for one of her sons of great stature and world renown, then we shall eventually become a nation of mental pigmies and morons.

Please forgive this letter if you have no interest in Ezra Pound, one of America's greatest men of letters. I myself am a simple old marine, but I can at least appreciate the calibre of this man, and the importance of obtaining his freedom.

" Incidentally I met and had a long and profitable talk with P.F.C.Fuller in Asmara, when I was U.S. observer with the Duce's armies in Africa. He knew tanks and taught me things I used on Okinawa with mine. "

15 Aug. P.A. del Valle.

ro/ Lewis Maverick's edition of the Kuan Tzu (S. Illinois Univ. Carbondale, Ill.)

" You mention the Kuan-Tzu, I received it from your country three years back, and class it tops of all books I have read on economics. : " When grain is cheap, he releases money for the purchase of grain ; when silk and cloth are cheap, he releases money to buy clothing materials. (in short) he controls prices and maintains an equilibrium by varying these controls) according as commodities become light, heavy in this way high and low prices may be evened up, and with profit to the state. "

" Let daily people are asking : what is the answer to inflation. ?

J.P.C.Fuller, Aug 24/ '57

AN ENQUIRY

While

No honest and moderately literate american can pretend to loyalty
and reject the ten points of Coleman Andrews' program,
offered the electorate too late, one wonders whether he would
accept additions to it or whether they would divide the
tiny minority whom he managed to alert in time to cast
ballots.

by name Thiers

An intelligent frenchman saw that Income Tax was the first step
downward to the infamies of inquisition. He said that 85 years ago,

The brute stupidity of the nation's paying interest on its own credit
was common place in the american mind in 1830. Nothing but the treason
of our universities, their trustees and out-in-front
stooges can have effaced that simple perception from the
diploma'd skulls of " college men", and their families.

of

The press avoids like the pest all mention of the sudden rise in the
price of gold committed under the least honest of
our 13 most dishonest Presidents.

The Morganthau reports of his malfeasance as Sec. of Treasury
antedated his revealing memoirs, but are engulfed in the
blackout of history.

very truly yours Oswald Benson.

printed

Has P.d. V. any means of ascertaining where Andrews stands or sits
on the above items ..

No desire to push him, or print

untimely ideas.

the Tablet, representing the lousy and evasive wing of the cats/
avoids vital issues. but carried news of Rep. L.H.Smith.
most.

P. A. del Valle

BOX 240. RTE. 4
ELKRIDGE 27, MD.

20 January, 1958.

Mr. Ezra Pound,
St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
Congress Heights,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Last night I slept but badly, and I ascribe this
to my conscience, which ever reminds me that a great man still languishes in an asylum for the insane whose mind is superior to nearly everyone's on the outside. That he suffers thus because he dared tell the truth about the real traitors to this country, and that we, who call ourselves patriots, have done nothing effective to obtain his release.

Casting about for some reasonable hope, I recalled
that Senator Jenner will not again run for the Senate next time, and that
I might, through his political secretary and advisor, get him to sponsor
a petition for review of your case in whatever manner you might think it
best to do so.

But first I would like to have your permission
to go ahead, and would like you to ask Dave Horton to write up your case
for me as you would like it presented. If you agree and will do so I can
begin with Miss Lonigan and go to every decent person in the Congress I
can find to try to get things moving.

Not being a legal man, I want to know if you ob-
ject to my consulting with Eugene Cowles Pomeroy, who is, and who is also
a dedicated patriot, knows and admires both you and Horton, and can be re-
lied upon. I'm really stumped for a means of doing this, my own thoughts
running to getting you out in the trunk of my car or something equally
impractical. I guess it's the old marine in me. I imagine I have done a
lot of illegal things in some of my tropical campaigns, and cannot say
I sincerely regret any of them. They brought results which were very de-
sirable, like keeping large and hostile populations at bay because they
were certain the fool who commanded the marines might do something awful.

In military parlance, I know what to do, but I
have still to find out how, when and where. The why is obvious. Only you
and your good lady can sanction and influence whatever effort is made. I
have given up waiting for any of the writers who have seemed sympathetic
to offer to go along in a practical effort. And my conscience will not
permit me to procrastinate while the precious time runs out.

Please do not take offense if I seem too importu-
nate, I only wish this were one of those banana republics I used to op-
rate in with a handful of marines at my back and no holds barred. But we
must do what we can in the best way we can do it, and there must be no
failure.

Mrs. del Valle joins with me in sending Mrs.
Pound and yourself our cordial regards and may God crown us with success
in our endeavor.

21 Jan 58

My Dear General

I get on better with those of fiery sign than wit
drips / There was a scotch Mahometan who wanted to import six
oriental assassins ( Bagdad, I think ) and cut our way out.

I wonder if you have studied the technique of DRIP,
as from Gallatin working on Jefferson, down to my friend Rodker
the " objector", telling how he demoralized his platoon until the
Brit. sargeant asked him just to leave quietly.

I note that Jenner has sussomed to something that just MIGHT have
drip/

Have you examined Miss Lonigan's " ambience" / ceux et
celles qu'elle frequent .

Hope to D. H. this p.m. and will confer.

My feeling is that the INDIVIDUAL most worth reaching wd/ be
Sen. Kerr , one of the few who openly knows what the score is.

my vox in deserto has been ; the INDividual..

and my howl that the men of good will ( and
GUTS ) do not intercommunicate.

Yes, of course glad to have Pomery's views.

and thanks for your

VOLONTA.

As there are other efforts being adumbrated , and LENGTHY
statements, I shd/ think that CONCISION on Dave's part wd/
be desirable , to the maximum permitting clarity.

There are two good letters in Feb/ Esquire , one by D.H. one
reporting on the D.T.C.

Could you drop a line to Lieut. Homer Somers , no longer
of the military. who was at Pisa , and has been heard from and
seen since then.

That wd. give you some concrete data not yet utilize
17 Brookdale Rd. Seymour , Conn.

Esquire hasn't corrected some errors on Rovere' s article.

I don't know whether you care to tackle 'em on the clear ststement
now available ( as WAS when Rovere started the benevolent noise)
vid. enc. carbon of Brit. Who's Who.

Fuller and Domvile have both written the active "eacham, from
whom you have probably heard.

I have heard that Napoleon ridiculed the idea that chess has ANY
similarity to military strategy. And having led the
life of an egg head

I nevertheless fear H false analogies.

2/ I may have put too much stress on IGNORANCE, as the enemy.

At any rate the hostile forces are, at least in part, comprised of
IGNORANCE

The drip technique

Snobism: a social

b. not quite snobism, but the horror BE

felt my lower gare litterati for ANY high critical standards.

These item wd/ probably not occur to members of the armed forces ,
even to congressmen.

AND anybody who hasn't had a bomb on their head during the past
20 years has been lucky.

Later/ Dave will make you a brief summary of legal angles/
violations of constitution etc. Porobably Coke on Misprision of
treason /

He has interviewed Kerr re/ Federal Reserve and monetary issue/

I suggest that IF you can get to him, you avoid all that
sort of thing, and stick to

Army betrayed / etc. and the duty of
citizen who was onto the infamy of kicking up as much row as
possible/ NOT ten years or 20 years AFTER the devilment.

As you know Hammarskjold is in delicate position/ he cannot interfere
in the internal affairs of the U.S.

BUT if someone of your standing
COULD persuade the Senator to ask Mr H/ about Europe etc.
D.H. might let quite a bit of light into the senators head re/
several interesting matters, including the case in which I have a
distinctly personal interest, which you, I believe, share
in benevolence.

I don't know about LITERature in Oklahoma, but
some swedes think there ought to be some.

Did I say Gomulko is sitting
on 3245 copies on the polish version of an early and UTTERLY
non-political, non-economic volume of mine.

UGH, one never thinks of
everything.

Without waiting for Kerr, I don't see why you shouldn't
ask Hammarskjold what he thinks can TACTFULLY be done,
might ask him to see some defender now in N.Y.

if any literate member of the defenders braves the atmosphere of
that once American city. Could even get an appointment for Dave
unless you yourself ever do go to N.Y. I never heard
of your doing anything of THAT sort, tho' the marines do git about
a bit.

These things are done over luncheon tables. Robert's
wasn't ruinous in 1939, god knows what it cost NOW to eat there.
Hammarskjold cd/ speak to McArthur. Chennault seems to be
in purity bad shape. Kerr could stand for law and constitution
and against handing arms and money-over to Moscow.

Lt. Gen. P. A. del Valle

8 April, 1958.

Box 240, RFD 4, Elkridge 27, Maryland

Dear Mr. Pound:

We were startled, when,
in the course of our activity in your behalf,
the press and radio blared forth informing us
that Frost had retained Thurman Arnold et al in
an endeavor similar to ours. Knowing Arnold's
background, I was alarmed as well as startled.
Our own endeavor, as Dave will tell you, was to
get Rogers to quash the proceedings, thus making
a clean break and no strings attached. Yesterday
Mr. Furness went to Arnold to see what they were
up to and how they came into the picture. Curtis
was consulted and he was going to see Rogers with
Dave and Furness in the hope that we might avoid
publicity and court proceedings, both of which I
fear are included in Arnold's plan. All were alert
to avoid any danger of spoiling your chances of
an early delivery.

The way the press are apt to handle
the question of your guilt or innocence is a matter
of some concern to us, although the article in
the Washington STAR was not particularly venomous.
There are Winchels and others who could give us a
last minute smear. This we wish to avoid in your
behalf, although we know your free and independent
spirit is above such mundane considerations. What
your reaction to all this may be we have no way
of gauging, but I'm writing this to let you know
what our thinking is and to ask you to let us
know your wishes.

Liegut. Gen. P. A. del Valle, USMC (RET) President

DEFENDERS OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, INC.

29 April, 1958.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your note of
the 28th with enclosures. I have sent in
the enclosures to Pomeroy so he may dis-
cuss them with Dave in due course.

We are looking forward with
great pleasure of anticipation your next
visit accompanied by your gracious lady.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable honor to
have you on Friday last. Vd. sabe que esta
es su casa. The lilacs are in bloom and
their perfume is a delight.

I have had no time to make
enquiries concerning the Chandler outrage,
and will try to get on with it as soon as
my chores and my other preoccupations let
up a bit. Washington foretold this, when
he warned us in his Farewell Address that
traitors would be applauded and true pa-
trients condemned! The times are out of joint!

Many thanks for your offer
of getting things into the Virginia Quarterly
and the Richmond News Leaders. I have nothing
at the moment, but should occasion arise I
shall remember your kind offer.

Mrs. del Valle joins me in
cordial salutations to your good lady and
yourself.

P. A. del Valle

BOX 240, RTE. 4

ELKRIDGE 27, MD.

16 May, 1958.

Mr. Ezra Pound,
3514 Brother's Place, S.E.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. Pound:

I called your telephone number in order to reply to your note of 15 May, but, doubtless because you have the new address given on the note, your old number rang without result.

Mrs. del Valle and I would be most happy to have you take luncheon with us at Troy Hill, en famille et sans ceremonie, as you suggest, just Mrs. Pound and your good-self, and whomever you might obtain transport-ation from, on Thursday, 20 May at about 12:30 P.M. Thursday 22 may

I have written to Slavin, seeking further information on Chandler, some of which you may perhaps possess yourself. It appears to be a case of seeking a pardon on the basis of hope that the judge may, if he is requested, repeat his opinion that the sentence was extraordinarily excessive. The present regime in the Attorney General's Office seems a bit less red and less crooked than during the Brownell incumbency, or maybe the "bosses" are somewhat worried. Anyway, it calls for a damned good try.

Looking forward to Tuesday next and with best compliments to Mrs. Pound,

23 Oct 58

Saluti. P. d V

Auspiciating recovery of fallen and voulded.

Labourers in the Lard's garden are few, need of able bodied as well
as cerebral action.

Note. Philip Marson whom I tried to persuade Dave to contact
has published " American Tragedy " : Education. " Insipid review
in Xtn Science Monitor,

should be reviewed in Task Force, and
Marson conjoined in effort. of
DID Johannen or Burdick's office ever get that draft bill
into the hopper, re/ college entrance exams.

IF it is printed, it wd/ be good
means of contacting Marson, as it was due DIRECTLY to
his TV slam at infamy and idiocy.

along with t'NHH the six
offers from publishers to print him.
as head Boston latin school in DISgust.
after 40 years resigned

Am asking G.Giovannini to get me a copy.
4543 S. Dakota, Washington N.E 17

If he and his pubrs/ wont send Task force a review copy,
perhaps G.Giovanini wd/ review it for you, signing or not.

JFC Fuller, West Poundgate Manor, Crowborough, Sussex, England
has got his Alexander ofacedon into print.

I suggest you send him a copy of " Ike" in exchange.

also get me a copy. I will remit to Giovannini for both
when I know the price.

The Ike should also go to Luigi Villari, 2 via Antonio Bosio,
Roma.

Who is trying to stir up Barnes (H.E.) re Sq. & etc.

saluti alla gent/ma Signora.

copy for
G.G. trust the above is clear. in re/ G.G.'s participation.

Kenner says he is doing something re/ Edwards Index mess.
P.Hutchins has some notes in " 20 th century ".

G.G. and or Craig any ideas what ought to be sent to Il Caffe

GB Vicari, 67 via della Croce, Roma for review ?

If and/or when the Yale Whatever prints E.P. issue, someone
might note that direct participation by the sd/ Ez. was
not requested.

"Va l'y" has evidently put me on free list
or has something in current issue they expect me to read /
who have not yet found it.

Vicari offers a corner to review
books I indicate, but whether this will KUUM ter freWish'n
gorNoze.

[1958]

Dear Dom Pedro

Foreign press remarks: among demmocracs no
rong personality emerges. Am trying a page on Richmond News Leader.
to straws. Mr Allslop of the J,York "erald Trib. alzo writes in
aro / so that ,, etc.

damn it, IF you can get to Kerr, and get the decent dems/
consider union with the decent protectionists and real republicans.

Am sending you some fotostats of Tinhkam, and a
aut from Mr. Wyllie, who I spose spoked my wheel in Va Nly.

Illustrazione Italiana so expected a flood of protest
inst nto 98 that they had a reply to objectors already CHH
itten , an there just WARN'T no letters objecting.

Naturall curious re/ who got into congress/
ghlin thought the WORST was coming back into majority.

Tinkham's policy of kidnapping opposing general... OUGHT
to be thought of.

Cant you and Crommelyn get back of Kerr.
bring in the gent / you were asked to " GET ", namely D. McA.
er die, etc.

hasn't found much but stratEGy in Fuller's "Alex".

he is 80. moobe wants quiet. Domville is 86 and don't
then he is wild oirish. gawd BLESS him.

Culture is safer. Colum sez Joyce told him "F.P. took
out of the gutter."

BUT that dont raise any objection, all
nos and retrospect.

Both Adige and Alto Adige GOT the point of my speech:
ary man has a right to have his ideas examined ONE at a TIME.

Both krauts and Sweedes want to do Women of Traxis.
man text already out, Sweedes enquiring.

Would you be interested in ressurrection of Order of
ossa respectable origin during the crusades, etc. Catholic but not
er the pope's rump. I think lable is " secular order " NO publicity .

I hope you get leisure enough to see Kerr, when he gets
to Washington. ?? Jan 59, or when ??

anyhow the people who stopped praying for Ike's death
fear Nixon wd/ be wuss, are relieved of THAT anxiety and can
their pious hands again.

Am offered car fare and free cocktails in Rome on
a inst. Senator Ferretti is said to have perused some pages of
nomics, mine not excluded.

of the hereditary heads 'a century ago counciled knowledge of
ing. must dig out his will and testament. A gold coin of Rothar
auctioned in Milano a while ago. in rebellion vs/ Constantinople.
R/ family still has the seal of Byzantine general. taken by

as other than platonic persuasion. Am waiting to see if J.F.C.F
ions Alex' paying his sojers' debts, an nif not WY knot.

Got a wop depot for Sq $.
I hope Dave will now have
amene leisure for correspondence AND Coke.

best to la 'ent/ma Signora

BENTON MEMORIAL AWARD

of the

CITATION

for

CONGRESSMAN AUGUST E. JOHANSEN

This Third Benton Memorial Award is presented to Congressman August E. Johansen of Michigan in recognition of his timely warning of the danger in political use of federal funds appropriated beyond the limits of the Constitution and in violation of it--a warning made continually necessary by continual federal centralization which destroys the Constitutional balances that were intended to protect the liberties of the people from the depredations of administrative centralism; a centralism that vests even the legislative initiative in the hands of irresponsible bureaucrats who do not account even to those from whose hands the power has been usurped.

We honor Congressman Johansen for his Bentonian fidelity to the Constitutional tradition, and hope that his own determination and resourcefulness will persevere to the same measure of success as did Benton's; a success in seeing the American people again turn their minds and their hearts to the noble and challenging task of governing themselves and reviving the cherished convictions of their forefathers; a success in revitalizing that independence of spirit and fidelity to Constitutional convictions that were a blessing to our forefathers and an example and inspiration to all mankind.

P. A. Del Valle, President.

Queeries: ~~Kylie Constitution Party Ritchie Kerr~~ [1958]

:: agenda: sale of congressional record.

college entrance: 2 languages, one inflected
mathematics up to readiness for analytic
geometry
ability to write coherent paragraph in english
REAL history of the U.S. B. Bentoy
John Adams, Van Buren, Del Mar, Menton
C.Bowen on Coke and Adams
Brooks Adams,

( ref Marsen, and Grattan )

queeries: who coheres; who meets whom.

any possible hook up between medium sized town papers
any centre into which it is useful to send stray items
of fact.

Canada B.C. one idea/ they don't use/ how MANY ideas do they think their hearers can take in at once?

S.C

F.R

rewrite men.

National Review, naturally hard up, appealing to Kil.

text books. Square $

Anthology: Confucius to cunings.

Coke, reprint now in process

CITATION

This Fourth Benton Memorial Award is presented to Congressman James B. Utt, of California, in recognition of his efforts to preserve our Constitutional structure from the ravages of a federal judiciary that is not sworn to support the Constitution. We commend him for his work at mending this palpable breach of the principles of republican government and urge him to further efforts to extirpate the dangerous heretics in the federal judiciary who undermine our Constitution from the security of their life tenures.

We join with Jefferson in saying:

"there is no danger I apprehend so much as the consolidation of our government by the noiseless, and therefore unalarming, instrumentality of the Supreme Court"

and in warning against the usurpations of that body, which:

"by sapping and mining, slyly, and without alarm, the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt."

In combatting these evils we praise Congressman Utt for exposing and attacking the pernicious anomaly of a federal judiciary that is not sworn to support the Constitution of the United States.

We thank Congressman Utt for vindicating the popular confidence in republican institutions by showing that the branch of our government that is most closely bound to the people, is the most faithful to the sure execution of the Constitution as they cherish, and entitled to the first place in their affective and support. In doing honor to Representative Utt for his good work in discharging the public trust he has undertaken, we likewise commend the good sense and fidelity of the People who b

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sustained him.

We congratulate him on proving himself in the ranks of those
Sen.
who, with Thomas Hart Benton, speak thus of the Founding Fathers:

"gratitude and veneration is the debt of my birth and
inheritance, and of the benefits which I have enjoyed from
their labors; and I have proposed to acknowledge this debt--
to discharge it is impossible--in laboring to preserve their
work during my day, and in . . . commending it, by the fruits
it has borne, to the love and care of posterity."

P. A. del Valle, President

U. S. N. & C.

Lt. Gen., U. S. M. C. Ret.

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

DIRETTAMENTE AL MARE
RISTORANTE ALL'APERTO TUTTO L'ANNO
SPIAGGIA PROPRIA • GARAGE

RAPALLO

26 MarZo

59

TEL. CENTR. 54-92 - 50-30 - 50-14

on saluti alla gent/ma consorte

Dear Dom Pedro /

Still better. As BBC is supposed to take me north on
the 10 th. Ap.

wd/ greatly save my declining energies if I cd/ meet
you nearer to home.

Pisa is contiguous to Firenze . Hotel Nettuno used to be
good.

Still better / and probably cheaper. Alb. Italia Rapallo
where you cd/ have beeyewteeful rooms we have just left

and get yr/ moneys werth. At any rate
I invite you to lunch and dinner there.

NO harm in yr/ meeting Bridson of the BBC
who wants to get t here on the 9th.( Thursday )

Shd/ like to have some quiet hours with you before
then.

AND you can't do better than Rapallo ANYhow

say you can get here any time before the 9th.
Minimum for elegant leisure , the 8 th.

But if you get here on Easter Monday , I think the southern languour
wd/ probably set in.

Alzo , if you are settling into Roma/ in many ways better you shd.
see the few people I want to see , by yrself and before I get
there.

Can you make it here any time up to the 8th.

Motor over the Bracco , magnif. ride if you havent done it. Bus
very comfortable. Will get schedule and enclose, if CIT aint shut.

"DAL VOSTRO BALCONE PESCATE NEL MEDITERRANEO.."

AVVERTENZA

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Nei telegrammi diretti a destinatari abbonati al telefono, invece dell'indirizzo stradale, si può adoperare l'indicazione (tassata per 1 parola): TF... (n. abbonato) seguita dal cognome o da altra designazione sociale dell'abbonato. Es. TF 912468 = Castaldari Roma; TF 864319 = Fabrital Milano.

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Significato delle principali indicazioni che eventualmente figurano prima dell'indirizzo

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GP = Da tenere a disposizione del destinatario presso l'Ufficio postale.

MP = Da consegnarsi nelle mani del destinatario.

TC = Telegr. collazionato.

PC = Telegr. con avviso telegrafico di ricevimento.

TF = Da telefonarsi al dominio del destinatario.

TR = Da tenere a disposizione del destinatario presso l'Ufficio telegrafico.

RP. x = Telegramma con risposta pagata. x rappresenta l'ammontare della tassa pagata in lire italiane, o franchi oro.

Xi = Telegramma con tassa di espresso pagata dal mittente.

GRANDE ITALIA LIDO RAPALLO

EZR A POUND

N. di recapito. Rimosso al fattorino alle ore...

n. di un riscossione.

TELEGRAMMA

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1255 New Hampshire Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Statement before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 15 May, 1959, relative to S. J. Res. 32, by the Secretary and General Counsel, Brig. Gen. Merritt B. Curtis, USMC, Retired.

Mr. Chairman:

I appreciate the opportunity of appearing here on behalf of the Defenders of the American Constitution, Incorporated, in opposition to S. J. Res. 32. Let me make it clear at the outset, however, that it is not the spirit or intent behind this proposed constitutional amendment to which we take exception. Insofar as this proposal is one designed to oppose and control the arrogations of legislative authority by the United States Supreme Court, we associate ourselves with that principle. This proposed amendment, however, is not an effective check on the pretensions of the Court. Our reasons for this position I will develop shortly.

Mr. Chairman, the problem that faces all defenders of the U. S. Constitution today is not altogether a new one. In 1787 and the years preceding, we had a bitter controversy between the advocates of irresponsible, unlimited powers of government on the one hand, and, on the other, those like Jefferson, who knew it was better to restrain public servants with the chains of a constitution. Today, many think that these protective chains have weakened and, in some instances, have disappeared entirely.

Today there is an alarming number of well-placed individuals who advocate and support the irresponsible and unrestrained exercise of usurped legislative power by a group of men who hold office under a life tenure and are in no degree accountable to the people. The Defenders of the American Constitution look upon supporters of this view as constitutional apostates. The high positions held by some who advocate this policy we believe to be good reason for increased alarm -- an alarm occasioned by the ignorance of constitutional principles in some quarters and, in others, possible deliberate and dangerous philosophies.

Throughout the political history of our nation, the Absolutists have long struggled to undermine the constitution. In 1833, for example, the members of the New York State Legislature felt obliged to take a strong stand. They declared themselves to be unqualifiedly against "the dangerous heresy that the Constitution is to be interpreted, not by the well understood intentions of those who framed and of those who adopted it, but by what can be made out of its words by ingenious interpretation." (Annual Report, 1918, American Historical Association, Vol. II, Autobiography of Martin Van Buren).

More recently, on 9 September 1958, the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, appointed by the General Assembly, stated: "...... we hold that in attempting to prohibit to the States the power to operate separate schools, the court usurped the amendatory power that constitutionally is vested in three-fourths of the States alone. In effect, the court sought not merely to interpret the Constitution, but substantively to amend the Constitution, and this the Court had no authority to do." This is in accord with the dictum of the late Chief Justice Hughes: "It is not for the Supreme Court to amend the Constitution by judicial decree."

The position of the Defenders of the American Constitution is in full agreement with the foregoing statement of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government. The immediate problem, as we see it, is how to deal with bold and, thus far unchallenged, usurpation. We do not believe that S. J. Res. 32 is the proper remedy to deal with it. First of all, it sets forth in the Constitution a controversial matter that has never heretofore been the subject to constitutional definition. We believe that it is pernicious for that reason and that it would be a great mistake to proceed with it, for it would occasion much unnecessary controversy and bitterness for an extended period of time.

The most dangerous part of the proposed amendment is not in what it states, however, but in what it takes for granted. It surrenders abjectly on the basic constitutional issue of whether an irresponsible judiciary is to be the exclusive arbiter of its own powers. Such a surrender is a complete abandonment of constitutional principle. As with any other abandonment of principle, it carries with it the seed of its own destruction. We look at it this way: If the Supreme Court can, with complete impunity, disregard the clear mandate of Article I, Section 1, of the Constitution; if the Court can, with equal impunity, ignore the express language of Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution; if they can do the same with Article III, Section 2; if they can hold office, as at present, without being duly sworn as required by Article VI of the Constitution; if they can ignore the express language of the VII, IX and X amendments; and if they can do all this, who is to say

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them "nay" if they chance upon some new provision of the Constitution that
may not be in accord with the philosophy of the current sociologists and
the psychologists who have now been accepted by the Court as "modern
authority". They may apply their newly instituted rule for testing con-
stitutionality, that is to say, whether a law or practice is, in the opinion
of the judges, "outmoded". If the Supreme Court can trample under
foot the existing Constitution, what restraint will there be upon them to
make short work of any new amendatory provisions? The position of the
Defenders of the American Constitution with respect to the proposed amend-
ment under consideration is that the Constitution is just the way we want it.
We don't like what is being done to it. And we want it lived up to -- in its
literal text.

More direct remedies are available to the Congress for dealing with this
question -- remedies that are not so ponderous, cumbersome and time-
consuming as a constitutional amendment and that have none of the objec-
tions of the proposal under consideration. One such is the bill proposed
by the principal backer of S. J. Res. 32, introduced by him on 7 April
1959 -- several months after the introduction of the proposed amendment
now being considered. The Defenders of the American Constitution feel
that Senator Talmadge's bill provides the more direct remedy -- one that
can not be adversely interpreted by the Courts, and one that the Congress
has the exclusive authority, responsibility and duty to apply. The proposed
bill -- S. 1593 -- would add a new section to Chapter 21, Title 28 of the
United States Code, which reads as follows:

> "No justice, judge or court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, or review, or to issue any writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command with respect to, any case, controversy, or matter relating to the administration, by any State or any political or other subdivision of any State, or any public school, public educational institution, or public educational system operated by such State or subdivision."

This bill is clearly within the Congressional authority set forth in Article
III, Section 2 of the Constitution. We strongly recommend that it be
given preference over S. J. Res. 32 as a much better method of accom-
plishing the desired result -- that of defending the American Constitution
against the present danger of amendment by judicial edict.

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18 June

Dear Dom Pedro

I don't know if M/ had started sending you verifax/ if you got one re/ British TV show, please destroy it / as writer is in jeopardy, and also my fattest brit/ supply source.

Am/ embassy London paid 122 sterling for use of E.P. in anthology / cd/ have been in $ and avoided 42½% brish inkump tax.

Figaro gives interesting note on bugging of Gov. of La.

shd/ like to see wot the Meyer-Hog Reed paper say of it.

report Kerr playing calm and friendly re Straws ( spelled Strausschz ) BUT

if no decent people ever speak to K/ what is to be eggspected ?

Any idea, or has yr/ son in row, WHO is the U.S. bassador to the Cut of St Jim ?

was one who lied to the wife of the Prex of Lebanon some time ago.

I dunt spose this one will answer my tender enquiry.

Mr Bock, whom you may never have heard of, but Dave has, has been gittin initiated in Ritual murder, kali shenanigans etc.

somewhat excited and imprecice or eliptic
letter SHOWS one helluva lot how far this sort of thing has got
in the nations keppertl/ and yr/ jewerarchy does ???

wot ?

Bock mentions Sieber and Rockwell, but not clear what if anything they have to do with matter.

re/ Long, you may remeber that Hucy's murder was described in some up Mississipi paper, before news cd/ have got there.

And so forth

It best to the missus.

[1959]

Caro Dom Pedro

Almeno, per l'amore di Dio, cercar to
parlare con Kerr, e con Herter.

And to bring 'em together.

Guy who OUGHT to know better, writes : WHO is Kerr.?

Pavlos, in Anonymous Spectator, quotes Benedict XV.

AND we are ignorant, best I ever heard of, Pen. XV. BUT
can Dave persuade the ex-dope etc. to give references.

Local wop, who also did not know the passage, says he cant use
without ref/ to WHERE it was said or printed.

Whether ALL the light in the u.s. has to be filtered thru
ex-patients.

HR. Pavlos WAS in Calif. bighouse.

I don't know whether Pomeroy had time to look at the F.H.James
material before shipping to Texas.

ANY attempt to make census of origins and backgrounds of
the six million or whatever psychiatrists.

IF one only had some physical energy left ......

31 Lug/ or approx. Schloss Brunnenburg-Tirolo, MERANDI

P. d. V. My sin for not reading Section 1. artl/ gg 10, words 17/8
with decent care /

which bitched the whole structure of the govt.

Notifying the Rev. Horton that the sole copy of his edtn, has
the pages bitched, into sequence 67 .4.5,2.3 8.9 etc.

to make worse monkey puzzle of it/

Anf wondering how many MORE copies in that state he has puRRchased or
vended.

Not having seen snooze-wypers, parts of P.d. V's uit, leave feeling
of vagueness.

Cant in any case deal with short-term combats.

BUT continue to see need of hammering in a FEW ideas, or perceptions.

Sovreignty: power to issue $ ( or money )

Loss of ALL real power, or most of it, when the states signed it away.

Whether Bowen or anyone can be druv into study of constitutional
convention/ whether R.I or other reluctant colonies relucted
with INTELLIGENCE, or who hoaxed, or if it all goes to Prove J.Adams
re/ their damned IGNORANCE.

That a job the profs. COULD be put onto.

AND fer m.c. or others, to start the research Siebers and co.
on, number of people bugged for opposing F.D.R.

Sending carbon to Dave/ whether Mrs Kn/sn has any news re/ moves
to reform curricula, OR to get Cong/ Record sold.

Trying to read new wop/stitution / one interesting clause, sd/ to have
been inherited from about 1870.

Art./74/ president can demand new discussion of a law.

75/ Referendum can knock out all or part of a law if protest is
signed by 500,000 qualified voters.

Of course there are fish-hooks
and qualifications / but the idea MIGHT be useful in some cases.

Suoerior capacity of the enemy to organize wd/ render it difficult
to keep any good law off the books. BUT if the goy started first
they might knock out a few bad once, until discovered doing so.

benedictions.

multiplication of useless burocracy in wop/ govt. to which
state dept naturall paid no attention. and I spose
luce papers equally non supporting.