>Are the 'Schaschan' to whom Pound alludes at the end of broadcast #43 (31
>May 1942) entitled 'Brain Trust: Second Spasm'   --"Who are the Schaschan?
>I ask you?"--  the _Shashai_ mentioned at the end of the Book of Ezra?
>
>Tim Romano
 
I think Pound is thinking of the chinese term sha-shang, meaning to kill and
wound, inflicting causalties on etc, and can be used (especially in
classical chinese) in a nominal form, too.
(I do not know the broadcast, would murderer or so be suited?)