montestewart wrote:...It was Pound's numerous friends in the literary world, including some of the biggest names in American letters, who came to Pound's rescue. People like Ernest Hemingway and William Carlos Williams spoke out against his actions, and their own patriotism was not in question, but they advocated for him and attempted to minimize his actions. I get the sense the St. E's psychiatrist was merely the rubber stamp to the "insanity" characterization....
Yes, I know. But, to tell the truth, those zany guys running the country didn't always listen to William Carlos Williams and such. I mean, if you can believe it.
Big point was, I think, there was little to be gained and something to be lost and he was a PITA old fart. And anyway, the focus pretty quickly was on Stalin, anti-Communism, the Iron Curtain....