Hmm. Let me ask on another mailing list I'm on. Stimson is of
considerable interest to historians of cryptography, and several
of them have rooted around in the archives.
 
Jonathan Morse wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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> Jonathan Morse
> Department of English
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
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