A while ago, someone asked about friends of Pound who had confronted him about his anti-Semitism and pro-fascism. Bunting, James McLaughlin and Marianne Moore were cited. There is another instance in the fine biography of Nancy Cunard by Anne Chisholm (Knopf, 1979). Cunard, of course, was one of the most vivid figures in Paris between the wars. She and Pound had a heated affair in 1921-1923 and remained friends thereafter. In 1930 her Hours Press in France published "A draft of XXX Cantos". Both she and her black lover of the time, Henry Crowder, are mentioned in the Pisan Cantos. In 1946 she heard that Pound had been trying to get in touch with her from St. Elizabeth's ("Nancy where art thou?" 80/ 510) and wrote him a long letter reviewing their friendship of 30 years. They had not met since 1928 but corresponded as she turned sharply to the left and he to the right. They had argued bitterly over the Spanish Civil War. In the 1946 letter, Cunard is grateful to Pound for his help with her poetry and for instilling in her a love of the French countryside. Then comes politics: "[William Carlos] Williams has called you misguided. I do not agree. The correct word for a Fascist is 'scoundrel.' ...Fascism is not insanity, unless evil itself, all evil, be insanity (a point that can certainly be argued psychologically and philosophically, in the abstract. War is not abstract). ... I cannot understand how the integrity that was so much you in your writing can have chosen the enemy of all integrity." Cunard cites several anti-Semitic outbursts by Pound in their correspondence and then looses a tremendous remark: "Incidentally, for several years, I thought you were Jewish yourself, Ezra. What could it have mattered, one way or the other?" Pound sent her a short reply in August, 1946, beginning "What the blue beggaring hell are you talking about?" Paul Montgomery Lausanne, Switzerland