The answer to question 2 is that the Bank of France is not now and never has
been known as the National Bank of France. I have this from my wife, who has
just spent 3 months researching in their archives, so I think it must be
right.

Richard Edwards


>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>    <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: My student's info request
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:26:14 -0400
>
>Hello, fellow Pounders:
>
>My grad student Sarah Holmes, who is finishing up the editing
>of the 1930s EP/William Borah correspondence (forthcoming with U. Ill.
>Press), has some questions she hopes you'll help her answer.
>She is currently off-list.  However, she would appreciate your
>replying to her email address: [log in to unmask]
>
>Her questions follow:
>==Dan Pearlman
>----------------------------------------------------
>
>Hello list. I am doing some research and was wondering if anyone could
>offer
>some answers to these questions:
>
>1) In Pound's personal letters, why does he group Harding, Hoover, and
>Mellon
>as a "universal stink." Is it because he blames them for the Depression? If
>so, why?
>
>2) What did Pound have against the Bank of France? (also, is it best to
>refer
>to it that way, or should one say National Bank of France?)
>
>3) Why did Pound dislike Woodrow Wilson?
>
>4) Did H. L. Mencken ever encourage Pound to start a newspaper? If not
>Mencken, was there another journalist who suggested Pound start one?
>
>5) What does PARTAGGIO mean? I think this word has something to do with
>elections, but I'm not sure.
>
>6) Who was Capt. Goldoni? It should be an Italian captain who was active
>during the Italian/ Abyssinian crisis, but I am not sure.
>
>
>ANY help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Sarah Holmes
>University of Rhode Island
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>
>
>
>
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