Dear all,
Pound was not a pacifist. He adopted the Douglasite point of view that wars are caused by the business interests of the armaments industries (De Wendel, Schneider Creusot, Vickers, Krupp) allied with banking institutions (De Wendel for instance was both in the armaments business and director in the Banque de France; moreover he was a depute in the French parliament and owned a few newspapers).
If one looks for such references to guns manufacturers and salesmen one finds them all over the place in the first two cycles of Cantos.
Pound was of opinion that pacifism is splendidly used by the liberal establishment to obscure the real causes of war. Hence his violent enmity against the Carnegie Peace Foundation who in his opinion had done nothing to explain the causes of war or develop a policy to prevent further wars.
If one needs any further proof that EP was not a pacifist, well, by now it is a well-established fact that he approved of the war in Abyssinia; this set him apart from all his Social Credit friends, who thought that "all wars are bankers' wars"
Roxana Preda