In a message dated 07/16/2000 11:45:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << But does Pound himself reject the notion of chosen people, or of chosen individuals? In this letter to Lewis, written in 1936, Pound might appear to believe in the Italians as a chosen people. Now that the Empire exists, it needs a Center in which intelligence and the strength of the race are concentrated, but from which in turn the light of its civilization spreads across and penetrates the lesser nuclei. . . The New Order will speak from Rome in ways neither heard nor dreamed of, in ways foreseen only by a few people of ardent imagination >> one should not confuse "chosen" with "vanguard".... jb....