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Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:03:32 -0500
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Jonathan,
Pound had long been blaming these socio-economic conditions on the Jewish financiers and loan capital. He believed that these Jews regarded the goyim as cattle. This conviction that a group of powerful Jewish financiers was destroying western civilization would amply account for Dorothy's reference here to "goyim". Her words need not be construed as an allusion to the train cars that took the Jews to the death camps.
 
There is plentiful evidence in Pound's broadcasts that he despised Jewish culture (as he knew it) and let's stipulate that Pound's letter to Sylvia Agresti, depsite its elliptical nature, is strong evidence that Pound wanted to believe that the intelligent and talented Jew was the exception, or that the Jewish race was inferior. (Those views about the Jewish race are NOT my own.) But these beliefs do not add up to proof that Pound knew about and was complicit in the genocide during the war, or that he tacitly condoned the genocide after becoming acquainted with the facts during the post-war period. 
 
Do you really think it is closed-minded of me to expect more compelling proofs than what you have offered, given the nature of the allegation?
Tim Romano
 
> 
> >[TR] When Dorothy refers to her transportation as "cattle trucks for
> goyim" she may be expressing a view that Pound had long expressed: that
> America and Britain were coming to resemble the degraded conditions in
> Russia, whose slave-labor projects, Pound had claimed, were financed by
> international capital. Read the broadcasts where he talks about e.e.
> cummings's book EIMI, about the author's trip to Russia in the 1930s, and
> the other broadcasts where communist Russia is the topic, for examples of
> this sort of rhetoric. This is not necessarily an allusion to the cars that
> took the Jews to the death camps.
> 
> [JM] Oh well, let's not talk about the specific term "goyim." Let's not
> even wave Occam's Razor. Instead, let's reminisce about the olden days when
> pay phones were electromechanical devices that couldn't make a connection
> to a free service like 911 or (in those days) 411 unless a dime (yes, a
> dime) were inserted first. If all went well you got your dime back when you
> hung up.
> 

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