Ezra Pound, part 2
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His influence on BUF policy during the second half of the 1930s, moreover, was striking: his books were reviewed in their press, his economic views were adopted wholesale by the BUF, and some of Pound’s disciples even published with the movement’s journals and newspapers. To be sure, this cut both ways: in keeping with British, German, and Italian fascists, Pound now helped advance scientific racial theory.
He offered unqualified praise for National Socialism in Germany, and termed Mein Kampf a work genius. Underscoring this fact were the appearance of swastikas concluding some of his more provocative letters by the late 1930s, and continuing with his poetry and other published works to the end of his life.
During WWII, Ezra Pound used his best weapon, his words, to fight the Allies as a radio host for Fascist Italy.
Pound started slowly in 1941, broadcasting only a handful of speeches – criticizing a Britain that had fallen under Jewish control. He likewise warned American audiences, advising them to keep the Jews from pushing the country into the war. By the time of Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941 – Pound was appearing roughly every week for Anglophone audiences.
He made thousands of extremely popular broadcasts, making him the most prolific and beloved wartime broadcaster in history.
But with America entering the war, Pound took a break from his broadcasting and refocused on his poetry, for his adopted home was now at war wth the country of his birth.
The US State department didn't It moved to indict Pound for “radio treason.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated these proceedings on October 1, 1942. A day after Mussolini was deposed, Pound was officially indicted by a specially empanelled Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D.C.– in absentia of course – on 26 July 1943. In the weeks to come, Rome was in chaos, and Mussolini in prison. However, Adolf Hitler himself had become a fan, and with the Nazi occupation of northern Italy imminent, the Third Reich created a passport for him in an attempt to spirit him to Germany.
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His influence on BUF policy during the second half of the 1930s, moreover, was striking: his books were reviewed in their press, his economic views were adopted wholesale by the BUF, and some of Pound’s disciples even published with the movement’s journals and newspapers. To be sure, this cut both ways: in keeping with British, German, and Italian fascists, Pound now helped advance scientific racial theory.
He offered unqualified praise for National Socialism in Germany, and termed Mein Kampf a work genius. Underscoring this fact were the appearance of swastikas concluding some of his more provocative letters by the late 1930s, and continuing with his poetry and other published works to the end of his life.
During WWII, Ezra Pound used his best weapon, his words, to fight the Allies as a radio host for Fascist Italy.
Pound started slowly in 1941, broadcasting only a handful of speeches – criticizing a Britain that had fallen under Jewish control. He likewise warned American audiences, advising them to keep the Jews from pushing the country into the war. By the time of Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941 – Pound was appearing roughly every week for Anglophone audiences.
He made thousands of extremely popular broadcasts, making him the most prolific and beloved wartime broadcaster in history.
But with America entering the war, Pound took a break from his broadcasting and refocused on his poetry, for his adopted home was now at war wth the country of his birth.
The US State department didn't It moved to indict Pound for “radio treason.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated these proceedings on October 1, 1942. A day after Mussolini was deposed, Pound was officially indicted by a specially empanelled Federal Grand Jury in Washington, D.C.– in absentia of course – on 26 July 1943. In the weeks to come, Rome was in chaos, and Mussolini in prison. However, Adolf Hitler himself had become a fan, and with the Nazi occupation of northern Italy imminent, the Third Reich created a passport for him in an attempt to spirit him to Germany.
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