Strange Fact about a Famous Anti-Semite

++In a book I found in my storage unit on Ezra Pound, I found editor John Mclaughlin's observations interesting. Since he published Ezra Pound and was in constant correspondence with him, he always says the less said the better about Pound's anti-semitic outbursts. 

++But later in this work on Pound's pedagogy and teaching, I stumbled on a comment by Pound to McLaughlin in one of his many letters. Out of the blue, on a discussion of mystery religions and Chinese myths, Pound says that his favorite religion is Judaism. Pound was brought up a Presbyterian and his father was a Sunday school teacher. Pound said that Christianity had fossilized and become inert to him. Judaism was, for him, like Confucianism. But the reason he liked it was that Judaism had not waged a war of conquest for over two millennia, while Christianity and Islam had. 

++McLaughlin has asked Pound's psychiatrist at Saint Elizabeth's the reason for his anti-semiticism. The doctor said it was a symptom of his mental illness and paranoia.

++By the end of his life, Allen Ginsberg travelled to Rapallo to meet Pound and forgive him his anti-semiticism. Pound at that time shamed into silence told Ginsberg it "was a suburban prejudice."

++After all these years and the fact Pound knew and routed on the Holocaust, I don't buy the explanations.