Depending on which biography you read, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson
either strongly favored or strongly opposed Pound's 1943 indictment for
treason. I queried the list about that discrepancy earlier this year, but
nobody was able to pin the facts down.
 
I haven't been able to do any pinning either, but let me at least save the
rest of you some trouble. The archive of Stimson's papers at Yale is
available by interlibrary loan on microfilm, and I spent yesterday looking
at the papers for 1943 and early '44. However, the news is negative. The
1943 reel starts out very promisingly with a complimentary New Year's
letter to Stimson from Attorney General Biddle (as I recall, that's the
very first item), but thereafter there's nothing relevant. The Yale archive
turns out to consist chiefly of personal material, including Christmas
cards and reminders of dental appointments, and I didn't find a word about
Pound.
 
 
--
Jonathan Morse
Department of English
University of Hawaii at Manoa
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