Balder Ex-Libris - Pound Ezra Weston LoomisReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearPound Ezra Weston Loomis - The revolution betrayedurn:md5:079473fc53205d6be174d1f5ac556b892014-05-29T14:00:00+01:002014-05-29T13:01:21+01:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisEmpireEnglandRevolutionSuezUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_The_revolution_betrayed.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Title : <strong>The revolution betrayed</strong><br />
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The revolution, that has been betrayed is, basically, "our" American revolution of 1776, not in its local and particular phases, and certainly not as an wholly unnecessary split of the English Race. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - What is money for ?urn:md5:5b0a695f7910f707729f6cb081e866db2013-11-04T00:17:00+00:002013-11-04T00:23:03+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisAmericaEconomyImmigration <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_What_is_money_for_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>What is money for ?</strong><br />
Year : 1935<br />
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We will never see an end of ructions, we will never have a sane and steady administration until we gain an absolutely clear conception of money. I mean an absolutely not an approximately clear conception. I can, if you like, go back to paper money issued in China in or about A.D. 840, but we are concerned with the vagaries of the Western World. FIRST, Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England, told his shareholders that they would profit because "the bank hath profit on the interest of all the moneys which it creates out of nothing." What then is this "money" the banker can create out of nothing"? Let us be quite clear. Money is a measured title or claim. That is its basic difference from unmeasured claims, such as a man's right to take all you've got under war-time requisition, or as an invader or thief just taking it all. Money is a measure which the taker hands over when be acquires the goods he takes. And no further formality need occur during the transfer, though sometimes a receipt is given. The idea of justice inheres in ideas of measure, and money is a measure of value. MEANS OF EXCHANGE. Money is valid when people recognise it as a claim and hand over goods or do work up to the value printed on the face of the ticket, whether it is made of metal or paper. Money is a general sort of ticket which is its only difference from a railway or theatre ticket. If this statement seems childish let the reader think for a moment about different kinds of tickets. A railway ticket is a measured ticket. A ticket from London to Brighton differs from one for London to Edinburgh. Both are measured, but in miles that always stay the same length. A money ticket, under a corrupt system, wobbles. For a long time the public has trusted people whose measure was shifty. Another angle. Theatre tickets are timed. You would probably not accept a ticket for Row H, Seat 27, if it were not dated. When six people are entitled to the same seat at the same time the tickets are not particularly good. (Orage asked; Would you call it inflation to print tickets for every seat in the house?) You will hear money called "a medium of exchange," which means that it can circulate freely, as a measure of goods and services against one another, from hand to hand. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - Social crediturn:md5:b631dbb0aaea0db4562030aee88a56212013-11-04T00:16:00+00:002013-11-04T00:17:23+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisEconomyNovelPatriot Act <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_Social_credit_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Social credit : an impact</strong><br />
Year : 1935<br />
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Foreword for the year 2007 edition. In the summer of 2003, I was shifting through dozens of books and a large quantity of information on Ezra Pound (1885-1972). It is clear by now that his mind has left a major mark on the universal human “kulchur” in general. His Cantos, letters, friendships and influence keep resonating in a growing and everlasting manner, slowly shifting into timelessness while the works and names of his endless opponents and tormentors, dissolve and disappear into nothing. On amazon.com, the search for the name Ezra Pound will bring several thousand results and hundreds of different publications, even the little known musical items he has written and videos on him are available. On e-bay on any given day one will find about twenty of his books, publications and photographs offered by sellers. Yearly conferences follow each other from Idaho to Florida and Italy, in June 2007 a conference will take place in Venice, Italy and in June 2008 one is already scheduled in an alpine castle in Merano, Italy. Pound has been propelled by the sheer force of his intellectual power into the forefront of western culture again, regardless of the constant, incoherent whining of his opponents about “treason” and his supposed mental problems. Just what is the force that he has applied in his work, what was the guiding principle that kept moving him to the top while millions of others were dissolving into the shadows? At the center of his life and his works is the single poem The Cantos that he began early on in his career and continued working on for the rest of his life. The Cantos (this most difficult reading material) is nothing less or more than an examination, a record of human history and culture in the light of the good and the bad, the heroic and the cowardly, the constructive and the degenerated. The Cantos is the result of a powerful analytical mind, shifting through human history, analyzing the players, the builders and the destroyers of this complex structure that has moved us out of the stone age toward the light that we have been seeking forever - “The Poundian Struggle.” The Cantos reaches into the very center of human existence and deals with the issues, decade by decade, century by century, player by player in a rather non compromising manner and some of those who have been found too light happened to come to control the entry doors to the mental institutions in the United States of America in the Twentieth Century. “The inmates running the loony-house!” as some might say. While reading Social Credit, one has to take into consideration the social changes Ezra Pound was observing and had to deal with during his early career. The early twentieth century, when America was still a robust, healthy white Christian nation, when the first signs of decay started to develop. In 1913 very few had understood clearly that the “Federal” Reserve System, the starting manipulations of Wall Street and the forming of the ADL could be the seeds of a destructive process for America. The analytical genius of Pound was adding up these events decades before the average political mind. He followed the destructive murderous rampage in Russia as the first communist revolution under an overwhelming Jewish supervision that ground down nation after nation, killing tens of millions of White Christians. It was his job, his sacred duty to discover the weaknesses in the Western Societies that had exposed them to future failure. This work left him no space to compromise. He had established early in his career usury as a major problem in our social structures. The “Federal” Reserve system by any means was recognized by him as an institutionalized form of usury, on a scale that has never been seen before. The concept of the system is rather simple and once we understand it, it is rather clear: We have been living together with the largest, most widespread criminal conspiracy since 1913. The roots of this problem went all the way back to Presidents Lincoln and Garfield. Lincoln had issued his Greenback, noninterest- bearing notes and Garfield had taken a hard stand on currency problems just before he was assassinated. Next in line was John F. Kennedy, who had already started the process of issuing money, controlled by congress. It seems that the standard punishment for US Presidents for trying to take control of the monetary system was public execution, with a bullet to the head. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - Provencaurn:md5:2cb72774edee115a27e0eeb3a3e176722013-11-04T00:10:00+00:002013-11-04T00:11:41+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisCollegeEducationMusicPoem <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_Provenca_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Provenca poems selected from personae, exultations, and canzoniere</strong><br />
Year : 1910<br />
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La fraisne? Scene : The ash wood of Malvern. For I was a gaunt, grave councillor Being in all things wise, and very old, But I have put aside this folly and the cold That old age weareth for a cloak. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - Canzoni & Ripostes of Ezra Poundurn:md5:b50eaea9c882792e748c96d9e03156802013-11-04T00:01:00+00:002013-11-04T00:05:12+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisInitiationMentorMusicPoem <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_Canzoni_and_Ripostes_of_Ezra_Pound_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Canzoni & Ripostes of Ezra Pound Whereto are appended the complete poetical works of T. E. Hulme</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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Ah ! red-leafed time hath driven out the rose And crimson dew is fallen on the leaf Ere ever yet the cold white wheat be sown That hideth all earth's green and sere and red; The Moon-flower 's fallen and the branch is bare, Holding no honey for the starry bees; The Maiden turns to her dark lord's demesne. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - An introduction to the economic nature of the United Statesurn:md5:208873986fa1288b297b7bdf3beda31d2013-11-04T00:00:00+00:002013-11-04T00:01:37+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisEconomyFranceJewTroisième ReichUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_An_introduction_to_the_economic_nature_of_the_United_States_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>An introduction to the economic nature of the United States</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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This is not a SHORT History of the Economy of the United States. For forty years I have schooled myself, not to write the Economic History of the U.S. or any other country, but to write an epic poem which begins "In the Dark Forest" crosses the Purgatory of human error, and ends in the light, "fra i maestri di color che sanno". For this reason I have had to understand the NATURE of error. But I don't think it necessary to refer to each particular case of error. I do not believe that the method of historiography has progressed much since the days when Confucius selected the documents of the old kingdoms, and condensed his conclusions in the Testament. Aristotle toward the end of his life arrived at a similar method, in his collection of Greek State Constitutions. Voltaire used the "human" method which hinges on chance and the personal element. A prince eats a pudding and dies of acute indigestion at a critical moment. Caesar Borgia said : "I had anticipated everything except being bedridden the day my father died." Michelet analyzes the motives of different social groups and tells us that the manual labourer wants to own a shop because he thinks shop-keepers don't work. Another method consists in analyzing certain mechanisms invented to humbug the public. Perhaps it is the renewal of an Aristotelian tendency but, in any event, it is suitable for the present narrative, and I am following it in this essay or definition, of the struggle between the people and the usurers, or financiers, in the colonies, and then in the United States of North America. Towards the end of the Eighteenth Century the settlers, driven by the desire for Freedom of Conscience, hardened by privations, favoured and betrayed, reached a certain degree of prosperity, thanks to their own hard work and to a sane system of using paper money as a means of exchange that freed them, temporarily, from the pincers of the Bank of England. The Settlers, or Colonizers, in Pennsylvania and in other colonies, irritated by the disappearance of metal money, understood that any other document could be used for book-keeping and as a certificate of what the bearer was entitled to receive in the market. The agriculturists who arrived in the new country, while they cleared the forests and prepared their camps, lacked the power to buy what was necessary to build houses, to buy plows, and to make a living. So the governments of several colonies began to loan paper-money for these purposes. Pennsylvania chose the best method adapted to the conditions-repayment in ten or twelve years, and loaning amounts up to one half of the value of the farm. Those who loaned the money, living near to those who had received the loan, could judge the character of the borrower. This arcadian simplicity displeased the London monopolists and the suppression of this competition, together with other irritants, provoked the 1776 "Revolution". The clearness of comprehension on the part of the revolutionary leaders is registered in diaries and "memoirs" of the times, and particularly in the notes of John Adams who, among other things, had been sent to Europe to organise the credit for the new State, and who secured the first loan from Holland. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - Lustra of Ezra Pound with earlier poemsurn:md5:53bd0b834cf6134eb7c7cacf062d0e6c2013-11-03T23:57:00+00:002013-11-03T23:58:03+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisAllemagneEuropePoem <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_Lustra_of_Ezra_Pound_with_earlier_poems_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Lustra of Ezra Pound with earlier poems</strong><br />
Year : 1917<br />
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Tenzone. Will people accept them ? (i.e. these songs). As a timorous wench from a centaur (or a centurion), Already they flee, howling in terror. Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes? Their virgin stupidity is untemptable. I beg you, my friendly critics. Do not set about to procure me an audience. I mate with my free kind upon the crags; the hidden recesses Have heard the echo of my heels, In the cool light, in the darkness. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - America, Roosevelt and the causes of the present warurn:md5:2e758736906053d0263bde30e4ed24272013-08-18T16:02:00+01:002013-08-18T15:06:58+01:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisAmericaConspiracyEconomyEuropeItalyJewRevolutionSecond World War <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_America_Roosevelt_and_the_causes_of_the_present_war_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>America, Roosevelt and the causes of the present war</strong><br />
Year : 1944<br />
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The Incidence of the War in the Process of History and the Fate of Revolutions. This war was not caused by any caprice on Mussolini’s part, nor on Hitler’s. This war is part of the secular war between usurers and peasants, between the usurocracy and whomever does an honest day’s work with his own brain or hands. I don’t know how many books one may have to read in order to understand this simple sentence, but a writer of history must count more on the selection of facts than on the bulk of exposition. A few pages of a writer like Georg Obst are worth more than the whole of D.R. Dewey’s Financial History, because Obst seeks to make himself clear to the reader, whereas Dewey sought to produce a work useful to the plutocratic bosses. The historical process has been understood at various times, but this understanding on the part of a diligent minority fighting for the public good is again and again thrust down beneath the surface. In 1878 my grandfather said the same things that I’m saying now, but the memory of his efforts has been obliterated. The same applies to the revelations of men like Calhoun, Jackson, and Van Buren. Forty years ago Brooks Adams assembled some very significant facts, but his books were not widely read. He had no vocation for martyrdom, he confessed with irony. There are, perhaps, thirty books a knowledge of which will enable us to understand how the American Revolution has been, and is still being, continued by the Italian Revolution, but none of these thirty books will be found on the bookstalls. It took me seven years to get hold of a set of The Works of John Adams, published in 1850-56 in ten volumes, edited with a Life of the Author by Charles Francis Adams, grandson of the Father of the Nation. Besides, these works are partly incomprehensible to anyone who is not already provided with some knowledge of economic or, more specifically, monetary matters. If you can understand the cause, or causes, of one war, you will understand the cause or causes of several—perhaps of all. But the fundamental causes of war have received little publicity. Schoolbooks do not disclose the inner workings of banks. The mystery of economics has been more jealously guarded than were ever the mysteries of Eleusis. And the Central Bank of Greece was at Delphi. In the nineteenth century the public more or less believed that political economy had been invented by Adam Smith. Regius Professorships were founded to falsify history and teach Whiggery. And even the Tudor monarchs used to talk about “tuning the pulpits.” The cardinal fact of the American Revolution of 1776 was the suppression, in 1750, of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania and other colonies, but history as taught in the U.S.A. speaks of more picturesque matters, such as the Boston Tea Party. Ethics arise with agriculture. The ethics of the nomad do not go beyond the distinction between my sheep and your sheep. If the study of Aristotle and Demosthenes has not actually been suppressed, it has at least been soft-pedalled for perfectly deliberate and definite reasons. Certain classical authors speak too frankly for the tastes of the Grand Seigneurs of Usury. The terminology of financial operations has already been studied and set forth with uncommon seriousness by Claudius Salmasius (De Modo Usurarum and De Foenore Trapezitico, Lugd. Bat. (Leyden), 1639 and 1640). But even those encyclopaedias that mention his name tend to ignore these two books. What constitutes a sound basis of credit was already known and affirmed at the beginning of the seventeenth century by the founders of the Monte dei Paschi of Siena. It was, and is, the abundance, or the productive capacity, of nature taken together with the responsibility of the whole people. I quote these apparently unconnected facts to indicate that certain high crimes are not due to any negligence on the part of a handful of scholars, and cannot be attributed to the ignorance of the whole of humanity, but that they can only happen on account of the ignorance of the great majority. What the sages understood was recorded, but inscriptions disappear, books decay, while usurocratic publicity floods the public’s mind like a muddy tide, and the same greed, the same iniquities and monopolies rise up again subjecting the world to their foul dominion. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - The lettersurn:md5:dac9da0c35757073650163d8a57963552013-05-16T13:51:00+01:002013-05-24T23:00:42+01:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisAmericaItalySecond World War <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_The_letters_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The letters</strong><br />
Year : 1907-1941<br />
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If Pound had any reputation as a letter-writer before 1915, and he probably had, it was a private reputation amongst (his) friends. When in that year Harriet Monroe printed a few of his letters in Poetry (Chicago) as hints to youthful talents, she made public another aspect of his genius. His correspondence immediately began to acquire, deviously and, as it were, subterraneously, an enviable reputation. It grew alike privately and publicly, fed in the former instance by the passing about of letters and in the latter by their scrappy publication in literary magazines, until it became for about five years nearly as well-established as his legitimate reputation. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - The Cantosurn:md5:d631f2ff7c4c07f79d456811ab46a3052012-06-11T12:34:00+01:002014-05-07T21:06:09+01:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisCantosPoem <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_The_Cantos_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Cantos</strong><br />
Year : 1954<br />
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And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up mast and sax! on that swart ship, Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also Heavy wlth weep1Og, and wmds from sternward Bore us out onward WIth bellymg canvas, Cxrce's thiS craft, the trxm-colfed goddess Then sat we amidshIps, wmd Jamnung the tIller, Thus with stretched sail, we went over sea till day's end Sun to hiS slumber, shadows o'er all the ocean, Came we then to the bounds of deepest water, To the Kxmmenan lands, and peopled cities Covered Wlth close-webbed mist, unplerced ever With glItter of sun-rays Nor With stars stretched, nor lookmg back from hea\en Swartest mght stretched over wretched men there The ocean flowmg backward, came we then to the place Aforesaid by Cuce Here did they rites, Penmedes and Eurylochus, And drawmg sword from my hip I dug the ell-square pltkm, Poured we hbatlons unto each the dead, First mead and then s~eet WIne, water mixed With whIte flour Then prayed I many a prayer to the SIckly death's-heads, As set m Ithaca, sterlle bulls of the best For sacrIfice, heap10g the pyre With goods, A sheep to Txreslas only, black and a bell-sheep Dark blood flowed 10 the fosse, Souls out of Erebus, cadaverous dead, of brIdes Of youths and of the old who had borne much, Souls stamed WIth recent tears, gIrls tender, Men many, mauled wlth bronze lance heads, Battle spoll, beanng yet dreory arms, These many crowded about me, wIth shoutmg, Pallor upon me, cned to my men for more beasts, Slaughtered the helds, sheep slam of bronze, Poured omtment, cned to the gods, To Pluto the strong, and praIsed ProserpIm., Unsheathed the narroW sword, I sat to keep off the lmpetuous Impotent dead, Ttll I should hear Tlreslas But first Elpenor came, our frIend Elpenor, U nbuned, cast on the wlde earth, Llmbs that we left In the house of CIrce, Unwept, unwrapped 10 sepulchre, smce tOlls urged other PItIful splnt And I cned 10 hurrIed speech. <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - Radio Speeches of World War IIurn:md5:846898179aee90adbf8bdcf05ee9ffbd2012-04-28T18:13:00+01:002014-05-07T21:07:47+01:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisEuropeGermanyJewThird Reich <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_Radio_Speeches_of_World_War_II_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Radio Speeches of World War II</strong><br />
Year : 1978<br />
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Series Foreword. The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound’s Italian broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been affected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are. There are other compelling reasons, the first having to do with the magnitude of their author. No other American—and only a few individuals throughout the world—has left such a strong mark on so many aspects of the twentieth century: from poetry to economics, from theater to philosophy, from politics to pedagogy, from Provençal to Chinese. If Pound was not always totally accepted, at least he was unavoidably there. Those traits of mind and character that made Pound so inescapable are not only evident in the broadcasts but also present in ways that make them more fully understandable. Here is that same fearless plunge toward the heart of the matter—often heedless of consistencies—that marked his study of ancient and exotic languages and cultures. Here is that same urge to simplify and instruct that marked his unorthodox textbooks: ABC of Economics, ABC of Reading and the rest. Here is that flair for dramatic hyperbole which peppered the Cantos and produced such deliberately shocking titles as Jefferson and/or Mussolini. The broadcasts do not always show these traits at their best, but their blatant presence makes them useful clues in putting together the puzzle of that powerful enigma at their center. Even if the shadow of Ezra Pound did not so broadly color this century, these broadcasts might still command a clinical respect for the way in which they interrelate so vitally with the rise of fascism in Europe and the accompanying extremes of feelings, with the cause and conduct of World War II as viewed from this special place by this very special commentator. To the historians who have counted this an almost anti-ideological war, the broad casts offer considerable counterpoint. Furthermore, they are the starting point for understanding two major cultural events of the postwar years: the trial of Ezra Pound and the literary prize controversies. The Bollingen Prize debate—by itself the politico-literary cause célèbre of the generation—while once totally preoccupying has to this day refused to lie at rest. Even this young Greenwood Press series, begun twenty-five years after the fact, offers two fresh and extensive treatments of the issue. Such insistent unrest shows clearly the need for this essential evidence now at hand. The broadcasts do not show Pound at his best. War, bigotry, and totalitarianism are not sunny subjects. Yet giant figures need their full dimensions, and unpleasant subjects can and should be studied for the best of reasons. How indeed are we to lessen our chances for future encounters with shrinking horizons if we do not learn from episodes so recent, so strongly cast, and so richly charted? We applaud, then, the respect for a complete historic record which has allowed the Pound Literary Trustees to overcome an understandable reluctance toward seeing these scripts in print. We applaud this same impulse which has motivated the patience and stamina of Leonard Doob. There are, and there will always be, more motives behind an act like this than one can chronicle. From our point of view, however, this work provides a singular and extensive collection of data for the pursuit of that most bewildering of cultural equations: the balance between the creative force, the individual personality, and the social context. Seen in this light, Ezra Pound’s texts become a “Contribution in American Studies” at a profound and essential level. ROBERT H. WALKER. February 1975 <strong>...</strong></p>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis - On the Protocolsurn:md5:b83d288d894993c90a0bba5746dfd9592012-04-28T18:09:00+01:002013-12-06T13:12:59+00:00balderPound Ezra Weston LoomisItalyJewNorth AmericaThe protocols of the learned elders of zion <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Pound_Ezra_Weston_Loomis_-_On_the_Protocols_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Pound Ezra Weston Loomis</strong><br />
Title : <strong>On the Protocols</strong><br />
Year : 1943<br />
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Note: Ezra Pound, arguably one of America's greatest poets, moved to Italy in 1924 and became involved in the newly regenerated Italy of the time. He soon broadcasted from Fascist Italy during the Second World War. His broadcasts were a mix of politics, personal commentary, anecdotes, and old fashioned wit. These were heard in England and America with his aim to try and enlighten people on why the war was fought and for whom. His message was against the hyper-internationalism that held the world hostage under the thumb of finance bankers and criminal politicians. "To send boys from Omaha to Singapore to die for British monopoly and brutality is not the act of an American patriot...This war did not begin in 1939. It is not a unique result of the infamous Versailles Treaty. It is impossible to understand it without knowing at least a few precedent historic events, which mark the cycle of combat...This war is part of the age-old struggle between the usurer and the rest of mankind: between the usurer and peasant, the usurer and producer, and finally between the usurer and the merchant, between usurocracy and the mercantilist system ...The present war dates at least from the founding of the Bank of England at the end of the 17th century, 1694-8. Half a century later, the London usurocracy shut down on the issue of paper money by the Pennsylvania colony, A.D. 1750. This is not usually given prominence in the U.S. school histories. The 13 colonies rebelled, quite successfully, 26 years later, A.D. 1776." With the close of the war because of his broadcasts Pound was tried by the US government for treason and locked away in a mental institution in Washington D.C. He was later released and died in solitude in Italy. Following is a radio broadcast from Italy of April 20, 1943 discussing the controversial Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion Ed. <strong>...</strong></p>