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Pound was med for treason after World War II because of his pro-Mussolini broadcasts over Italian radio. But he was good to his fellow poets...
...lived fully enough to have few regrets. At 56, he is a youngish old Africa hand. He left his native Ireland when he was 18 for life on a Kenya farm. As an officer in the British army during World War II, he helped round up Mussolini's homesick legions in northeast Africa. A more difficult job was keeping the Somali nomads from each other's throats...
...most prominent poet-in-exile, Ezra Pound. Now 86, Pound was indisputably a profound influence on 20th century poets, among them Yeats, Eliot and Frost. Yet he was also a thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. He was released in 1958. Last May, Pound was nominated for the $2,000 Emerson-Thoreau Medal by the literary commit...
...abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies squabble over their slices of it. Another example: the frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Holy See, the basilica and convent of Assisi were to be given back to the Vatican. But the Holy See refused to accept them unless the buildings and their irreplaceable frescoes were wholly restored. The Italian government agreed. After 43 years of delay, the final restoration funds have...
...schools are running on three shifts. Rome University, built to cope with 12,000 students, has an enrollment of 93,000. In short, the country this spring is beset by a host of troubles that its politicians seem unable to cope with. And now, after enduring 34 governments since Mussolini's fall, Italian voters will go to the polls once again next week to choose a new Chamber of Deputies that promises only more of the same...