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24th February, 1937.

Dear Mr. Pound,

Thank you very much for your letter of Feb. 20.

I am publishing the part for publication under
your name, as your style is far too unmistakable for it
to be passed off as somebody else's.

I shall always be very grateful for short
articles from you for the paper, and although your currency
views go a little further than ours occasionally, I have
no objection to publishing them with a short editorial note
to that effect.

The great thing is that your stuff is likely to
wake them up and therefore I shall be very glad to receive
it.

Yours in Union,

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Via Marsala, 12-5,
Rapallo, Italy.

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26 Nov.

Mr
Dear Dorman

The enclosed may be a bit plain. I ought to
have written it when I wrote you. Might then have had a
little more brightness and lightness....

IF the times call for such.

I'll try in future to hold it down to 3 1/2 or 4 of
my typewritten pages. I can't count words, never have.

## SECONDLY, for consideration by committee of policy, perhaps before doing an article.

pulmonary
Workers in gypsum factories are immune from tuberculosis / cattle that kick up dust containing ENOUGH calcium & have NO tuberculosis.

This has been known for twenty years.
An American Doctor named Tweddell has cured cases, and other doctors have written to him that THEY have cured cases by squirting BWHH gypsum powder ( very fine powder ) into slum rooms etc.

Two dollars, for powder and a sort of squirt
( I take it hardly more complicated than a common flit squirt. )

as distinct from ten dollars a MME
visit. Tweddell has been trying for 10 years at least
to stir up CURIOSITY of the medical profession.

Calcium INJECTION have come into use; but the inhalation method is not widely known.

This hitches onto the free DUMB/ it has trade (medical trade) implications.

I don't want to go off half cocked. Local doctor hopes to get it tried in nearby sanitorium. etc/ For the policy committee I am suggesting a definite use.

You may remember that the first wave of popular sympathy for fascismo in Italy was sentimental/

it was apropos of the then government's non-reception of Italian refugee children.

D Annunzio in Trieste, etc. I forget the details.

It is known that Medical missions were often effective where mere teaching of church Christianity didn't work on the natives.

I suggest that whatever medicos there are in the B.U.F. EXAMINE Tweddell's reports,

and IF they confirm them, that the shock troops of the B.U.F. start arousing the sympathy of the slums by saving the tubercular children.

It won't take more than one case per family or per block to initiate something more than a transient friendship.

I'll send on some of Tweddell's reports as soon as I hear

that yr/ gerarchia is interested.

You people may think that I am merely the homo-economicus
o that I believe in the existence of that animal, but
seck iz not the kase.

cordially yrs.

4 Dec

Dear Geoffrey Dorman

It is funny, despite fact that for years
I have been told I get too much into an article,
I find it very
hard to cut down from five to 4 pages.

I will manage it
in time. "eanwhile I am sending you two article/ not that
I want to flood you/ but they are done and may as well go w
with one trip to post office/
take yr/ time about using them.

Further point, possibly better discussed in office before
I go on to it/

difference between criticism ( as ruled out
in Germany ) and CHOICE.

I see what they are aiming at. even
if I dont think they see it.

More and more it ought for you people to be a duel between
Mosley and Eden/

What I get is niggling and IRRELEVANT criticism
of Mosley, never on BASIC issues.

I think Mosley ought to stand against Eden in his OWN
district, at bye or next election.

A minority shd. attack the staff not the scouts. If the
people esp/ the younger men get it into their heads that
it really is a choice BETWEEN Mosley and Eden; the
decent majority will plug for Mosley.

If they think they have any LIBERTY to elect
a composite of Christ/ Palmerston, Garnell, H Gladstone
and the late Chas Dickens,

they will go on blathering, and Eden
will stay in parliament.

yrs

Friday 10 Dec

I

Dear Norman

The Left Review, 2 parton St. V.C.I has just brought out a pamphlet " Authors Take Sides " within which is such a perfect exposure of the pink-tea idiocy about Spain that I the some USA should be made of it.

As they have printed my reply/ I am not the preson to cast the first stone/
esp/ as they have nicely put me in as " NEUTRAL ? "

AND as I am taking other measures. ANYHOW.

Some PERFECTLY bee/yew/teeful demonstrations of the utter
general ignorance of the whole Quindecennio, not, so far as I
have read a SINGLE contributor who knows one damn thing
about what fascism is/

it is evidently babies bogey to ALL of
'em. As fer Bernie Pshaw calling himself a communist that is
another mashed potato/ Were there any decent and sporting
communists they wd/ I think prefer US
to such potatoes in
red jackets.

And her reader remarked this p.m: that Wells said I
were the only people who had said anything in reply.

That isn't quite so/

Someone NOT I., one pamph/ might list the authors omitted
either because not asked or because they wanted to
keep up in the tenth floor of the ivory pageode!!

Why was Wynd. Lewis "boom of Youth" withdrawn ?

this pamph/ is perfect demonstration of parts of
his thesis. ( pubd. in 1952 / whether he wd. review it for
on I dont know. He prob. belongs in B.U. Quarterly rather
than in Action ?

ad interim.

7 Jan

Dear Derman ( and/or Haven T// )

I think in common decency we should print a VITRI-
OLIC attack on Schacht's last blithering infamy. AS it is a
national matter, better an Englishman do it/

Also good politics, I should think? A mean for the crowd.

Schacht is just as bad as Neimeyer or Keynes, NO peace
possible with a Germany wherein he is not ELIMINATED, not
merely taken off the front bench.

Gold me yarse/ the damn

liar/ he might be Salter

ought to be clear that one is anti-Schacht
who is possibly Germany's worst enemy ( whatever his own opinion
on the subject may be ).

He ought to dine with Runciman.

yrs

21 March

[1958]

Dear A/K/C

The enclosed is probably too late. And you
will probably have covered it anyhow. If not the points shd/
be made. Especially that recent loan or buy out of the
Skoda.

The Guardian loan is a mystery. probably destroys unity of the
article, so cut the reference if it bothers you.

retrospect re/ wangles against the Anschluss is now probably
useless; I was tempted to reminisce re/ a visit to Vienna
in 1927, but have cut it oit. After all Eng land is
England's affair and Action shd/ keep on at that
good government INSIDE the country.

22 Dec

Editor" Action "

of general taxation
To avoid the hardships quite unnecessarily
threatened, your govt. might quite easily take ever
the profits on the gold exchange, the silver exchange and the
nickel exchange, all of which wd. touch very lightly the
working englishman, the salaried englishman and in fact the
whole native population of England. You might add 96 and one th
of the profits on transfer of stocks in general on yr/ stock
market.

cordially yrs/

Our Social Crediters might also lay off one bit, possibly
the only bit of Manchesterian obscurantism, that remains to
them. There is NO use in trying to lump UMBRELLA Italian
Fascism and Russian bolchevism into one basket. "arx saw
quite rightly that something was wrong with the profit
system. He andwenin after him tried to cure it by
an attack on all private ownership. Italy, at higher level of
civilization, and having the canonist discrimination between usury
and fair share out, in its tradition stands firm on
private ownership as the basis UMBRELLA UMBRELLA UMBRELLA
and seeks a remedy in a balance of benefits. The policy
of family cheques, of division of swollen estates into
reasonable sized holding for peasants and the recent
acceleration of the " House for every family campaign"
oward to make this clear even to our admirable S.C. friends.

Dear R/T.

I am worried by the " conscript wealth " slogan.

Might easily create confusion between B.U. and bolchevism.

Mence /S/ to enclosed.

Ownership is necessary basis for family, for rpractical
responsibility. It IS the European tradition for all stages
of civility above that of nemads who have no HUHUUUH
civitas etc. who are not cives.

nemad mentality is to exploit; exhaust and move on.

I havent included a possible sentence/ sic : all these
profits are computed and paid IN MONEY.

Afraid it might confuse the simple reader, by my usual error of
mentioning two related ideas at once.

via "arsala I2/5 Rapallo

13 Feb.

Editor / Action

I am never quite sure what news or perceptions
are allowed to reach you from beyond the frontier, and I am
diffident as to ~~anyone save the English can~~, in the
present crisis, ~~save England. I am, however,~~ thoroughly certain
that England will not save herself by howling from one end of
the earth to the other that smaller nations should perish
to save a few metal monopolies owned either wholly or in
part by the sweepings of the Frankfurt ghetto, to the third
or even sixth generation..

I do not think the native races of Europe shd/ be
annihilated for the jew, or for the intimate business frieds
of a comparatively small number of kike millionaires, whether
their main offices ate in London or in Wall St. or
clustered round the Paris bourse. Neither does it appear that
Europeans outside the controll of a few City holding companies
and Leon Blum's habitat or particularly anxious to lay down their
lives for these monopolies.

If England were going to lose a war with honour
or even to win one she wd/ have one course, and one course
only open to ~~us~~ her, namely to fight it, rasth rather ~
than asking Finnland, alias HHHH, larely a nickel gang,
or Roumania to fight it for her.

I don't think this latter attitude is " going big "
in the U.S. or that it will help Mr Roosevelt to a higher
place in American esteem. . The readers of ~~Action can~~
go back to the issue of Aug. 19. for what I consider
a ~~sane~~ HHHHHH life for Europe.

A few parisianized jews, and fussy septuagenarians will NOT annihilate th whole population of northern Europe to make the world safe for Tazard freres. Why not try a little realisim, or old fashioned British horse sense.

via "arsala 12/5 Kapallo

13 Feb.

Editor / Action

I am never quite sure what news or perceptions are allowed to reach you from beyond the frontier, and I am diffident as to anyone save the English can, in the present crisis, save England. I am; however thoroughly certain that England will not save herself by howling from one end to the other that smaller nations should perish to save a few metal monopolies owned either wholly or in part by the sweepings of the Frankfurt ghetto, to the third or even sixth generation.

I do not think the native races of Europe shd/ annihilated for the jew, or for the intimate business friends of a comparatively small number of kike millionaires, whether their main offices ate in London or in Wall St. or clustered round the Paris bourse. Neither does it appear that Europeans outside the controll of a few City holding companies and Leon Blum's habitat or particularly anxious to lay down their lives for these monopolies.

If England were going to lose a war with honour or even to win one she wd/ have one course, and one course only open to RHH her, namely to fight it, rasth rather than asking Finnland, alias RHHHH rarely a nickel gang, or Roumania to fight it for her.

I don't think this latter attitude is " going big " in the U.S. or that it will help Mr Roosevelt to a higher place in American esteem. The readers of AV Action can go back to the issue of Aug. 19. for what I consider a sane "WHY WERE YOU" life for Europe.

A few Parisianized jews, and fussy septuagenarians will NOT annihilate the whole population of northern Europe to make the world safe for Hazard freres. Why not try a little realism, or old fashioned British horse sense.

I March

Edtr Action

SIR

How can you refer to the Finnish war as a foreign
quarrel ? Do not the Finnish nickel mines belong to
a jew-english or britisch ( as you spell it ) company.
Are not these norRIES fighting for the riches of your
dominant class ? "ave not the native english been a
slave race; governed by the House of Rothschild since the
battle of Waterloo ??

"Shoot if yew mustt dis oldt orey headt
But spare the HEMM chewischOLDT !" she said.

indignantly yours