More from the F.B.I. file on Pound. The Bureau’s translation of a wartime broadcast made in French, aimed at Vichy. I haven’t found the
original document; but Feldman reproduces it.
Begins with an interesting statement of his Europeanism;
collapses into the usual invective; then ends with “Rome was reborn. The Sacred
Empire was reborn”; i.e., the empire
of antiquity was reborn in the Holy Roman Empire; and the H.R.E. was reborn in
Mussolini. More of Pound’s modernist Ghibellinism. So I think anyway.
Source: Matthew Feldman, “The ‘Pound Case’ in Historical
Perspective: An Archival Overview,” Journal
of Modern Literature, 35.2 (winter, 2012), p. 93 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jmodelite.35.2.83).
Related to Pound’s Ghibellinism:
Contributions by Guy Davenport and Boris de Rachewiltz to Eva Hesse
(ed.), New Approaches to Ezra Pound (London,
1969);
Reed Way Dasenbrock, “Ezra Pound, the Last Ghibelline,” Journal of Modern Literature, 16.4
(Spring, 1990), pp. 511–533 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3831417);
Robert Casillo, “Ezra Pound, L. A. Waddell, and the Aryan
Tradition of ‘The Cantos,’” Modern Language Studies, 15.2 (Spring, 1985), pp.
65–81 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3194433).
