In a message dated 1/28/98 10:14:14 PM, you wrote: <<I might add that I am more than a little distressed at some of the responses to Miyake's query. Questions about Pound's attitude toward Jews are both legitimate and in principle answerable on the basis of evidence. It is absurd to assert that no evidence is needed since we know in our hearts that Pound was innocent (or guilty). Nor is it helpful to take a page from Hilary Clinton's book and attack anyone who is interested in ascetaining as near as may be the truth of the matter. >> I agree that the responses to Miyake's query seemed a little aggressive. Akiyoshi Miyake's seems genuinely interested in finding out some chronology in Pound's ideas on Jews. But I would have had more sympathy with the self- righteous responses had I noticed that for the last several years Miyake had been fishing around for something, anything, anywhere, to discredit Pound, with a view, for instance, of having him removed from all university libraries. This is, to my view, what Ken Starr has been doing, not simply trying to ascertain the truth of anything. (I assume Ken Starr is the point of the Hilary reference. If not, ignore this two-cent comment.) Jay Anania