The thread about Brits and Yanks reminds me that Pound's anti-semitism was at moments almost synonymous with his anglophobia. The background? British positions in both world wars and British domination of money markets in the late-nineteenth century. But in broader political and literary terms Pound gets this from Emerson and Whitman and before that Adams and Jefferson. Aside to Leon: surely you expected a firestorm! Jonathan Gill Columbia University