Tom White,

I hope you didn't think I was sarcastic when referring to your
“Whatinell is going on?”….(which would be an excellent title for the
story I am writing, and which starts 52 years ago).

Again, may I ask you if that was the very question you have been trying
to answer for
the last 52 years?

Also, I was very interested to read about your W.W.II navy background.
During that war my great-uncle Admiral George Robert, High Commissioner
of Martinique and Guadeloupe, was in charge of keeping an eye on the
three hundred tons of gold he had stored in Martinique for the Banquet
de France (and the Vichy government).  His refusal in 1942 to surrender
the precious eight thousand crates to de Gaulle (and the USA), was of
course followed by his return to France. The French didn't put him in
prison, though.

You may, of course, wonder what that little story has to do with Ezra
Pound.  It is somewhat linked to him getting out of "Loony Jail"... The
rest is history, and will be in my story!

Marie-Noelle