Those Ford-financed essays were translated into the major European
languages and published in the hundreds of thousands of copies.
Mein Kampf was directly influenced by those essays in German translation.
==Dan
 
At 11:36 AM 9/9/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Henry Ford is one of the very interesting anti-semitic characters (along
>with Father Coughlin and Charles Lindberg) that Poundians would do well
>to investigate.
>
>Thos anti-semitic essays were published in his newspaper, the Dearborn
>Independent, one at a time.  They were also collected, if I recollect
>correctly, in four volumes around 1922 (and available from Interlibrary
>Loan under the title "The International Jew").  A few years ago a friend
>of mine who deals in Judaica picked up a much more recent reprint.
>
>Ford also made a very public, very unconvincing apology around 1927.
>
>I've occasionally run across Pound's references to a "Ford" who seems not
>to be Ford Madox Ford, who is usually referred to as "Fordie."
>
>Machine Art may be another useful Henry Ford connection.  And EP never
>drove a car, right?
>
>Jonathan Gill
>Columbia University
>
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