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...Discuss Fascisti at Union Tonight...
...Debating Union will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight in the Union. The subject for discussion will be "Resolved, that this house regards the Fascisti government as the best for Italy at this time...
Most people probably know that Pound was a traitor during the war, a collaborator with the Fascisti in Italy. But few probably know how he arrived at that point. It started with his departure from Paris in the fall of 1924--he was fed up, some of his friends say, with helping other writers with their works. By that time he had already edited Eliot's "The Waste Land" into shape and he had exerted a lot of energy getting enough money for Joyce to finish Ulysses in Zurich. Countless others relied on his abilities as a writer and editor...
...common knowledge that Pound's attempts to collaborate with the Fascists on the Ente Italiano Audizione Radiofoniche (EIAR), the statecontrolled radio-broadcasting agency, were at first rejected. The Fascisti thought he might be sending a code even after he began broadcasting. Heymann has turned up evidence that some even thought Pound was mad: "There is no doubt in my mind that Ezra Pound is insane!" wrote the manager of the National Institute of Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. Heymann shows that even as early as 1935 II Duce's office had criticized a plan devised by Pound as "eccentric...
There is another small point of contention surrounding Pound's collaboration with the Fascisti. Pound's defense was that he had a signed agreement with Mussolini's government--actually broadcast over the air--which read in part, Pound "will not be asked to say anything contrary to his conscience or contrary to his duties as an American citizen." The problem was really that Pound didn't understand the difference between intent and action. Even Camillo Pellizzi, the president of the Fascist Institute of Culture, said Pound was legally a traitor, but that the poet thought it was his "duty...