http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a371f273d7785.htm > And in any case I do NOT want my compatriots from > the ages of 20 to 40 to go git slaughtered to keep up the > Sassoon and other British Jew rackets in Singapore and > in Shanghai. That is not my idea of American patriotism. > (Doob, 21). > > This passage could be interpreted in any number of ways, and it touches on > several important issues, having to do with imperialism, Pound's views on > British, Chinese, Japanese, Australian and American culture, how notion of > "patriotism", and his attitudes toward Jews.