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- My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice that what I think doesn't amount to much.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
On This Day 1958
Influential American poet and literary critic Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Europe. At the end of WWII, he was arrested for treason by the US for making public broadcasts in Italy supporting anti-Semitism and Fascism. Judged insane, he was committed to a hospital in Washington, DC, until Ernest Hemingway and other friends secured his release 12 years later.
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