Is there any such thing as being "hard of reading"?

    Thank you, Alex Schmidt, for drawing attention to Pound's translation of
Sophocles' "Women of Trachis". In the "Foreward" to the book Denis Goacher
reflects on Pound in St. Eliizabeths. He writes,

    "Walking away down the sand-coloured path, I sometimes wondered how many
of Pound's vistors in a year were really disturbed in their hearts by what
they saw. How many understand what brought him there, what had been the
content of his broadcasts? Did they know the Italian government was so
bewildered by his radio speeches that they thought he must be acting as a
spy? Did they know that, according to one reliable report, at the outbreak
of the war the United States consular service in Rome treated Pound as
persona non grata, and stymied his repatriation after he and his wife had
settled affairs and bought 'plane tickets? Or early in 1942 Pound tried to
join the diplomatic train which carried a large group of Americans from
Italy to Lisbon for shipment back home- permission being refused him by the
American government?"
    Is this true? It certainly does not sound like the Pound we have been
discussing. Does anyone know the source of the "reliable report" Goacher
mentions?

CDM