In _A Serious Character_, p. 620, Humphrey Carpenter says that Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, reacting to a clamor for Pound to be tried in absentia for treason, proposed to Attorney General Francis Biddle that Pound be indicted in absentia and then tried after the conclusion of the war. In _Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years_, p. 195, J.J. Wilhelm says that Stimson "warned Biddle not to go along with a group of people who were demanding the indictment. . . ." Carpenter cites C. David Heymann as his source; Wilhelm cites Tim Redman. Does anybody know which of the biographers has the story right? Thanks. -- Jonathan Morse Department of English University of Hawaii at Manoa [log in to unmask]