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people.
So, a great deal of work was done, and
they established that they were killed in
the Wintertime, and the Germans didn’t
come in until Spring. They all were still
wearing their heavy coats, when they
were buried in mass graves. The Germans
had not come in until April, so there was
no way they would have been wearing
those heavy coats at that time.
There was actually a post-war Katyn
Forest investigation, and they proved that
the Soviets did it. But, of course, the
Communist diehards, to this day, never
admitted that. They claim that the Nazis
committed the Katyn Forest massacre.
And, in fact, that’s one reason never
mentioned—I remember back in the ’50s,
Katyn Forest, that is what everybody was
talking about. And they have buried it
totally, now; it’s not even mentioned
anymore.
Martin: Was it Ezra Pound who got
you interested in studying at the Library
of Congress?
Mullins: He certainly did. In fact, he
got me interested in everything. I had no
political interest at all, in any political
party or any “-ism” or anything at that
time, because I was completely a
bohemian. I was a writer and an artist. I
just had no interest in politics.
So then, when I finally agreed to go to
St. Elizabeth’s, to visit Pound, and I
walked in there, and I saw this
magnificent man sitting there, in this
marble hole—he always called it “the
hell-hole”—and so, it just enraged me.
My whole life changed just in an instant,
because I wanted to do anything to get
him out of there, and to punish the
people who had committed these crimes.
And, actually, that resolve has never
changed since that day. My whole life
Pound has been called the “inventor”
of Chinese poetry for our time.
Beginning in 1913 with the notebooks of
the Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa, he
pursued a lifelong study of ancient
Chinese texts, and translated, among
others, the writings of Confucius.
Pound’s translations, based on
Fenollosa’s notes, collected in Cathay
(1915 ), are considered among the most
beautiful of Pound’s writings.
Dante and Homer became other
sources for inspiration, and especially
Dante’s journey through the realms
have parallels with his examination of
individual experiences in the Cantos.
In 1920 Pound moved to Paris. Four
years later he settled in Italy, where he
lived over 20 years.
He met Mussolini in 1933 and saw in
him the long-needed economic and
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was transformed, just in an instant.
Martin: Now, who put Ezra Pound in
“jail”? (R.M. Note: It was St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital, a federal institution for those
proclaimed to be insane.)
Mullins: He was put in jail on an
indictment drawn-up by Alger Hiss, who
was the personal assistant to Roosevelt.
Alger Hiss had decided that Pound had
committed treason by broadcasting from
Italy to the United States because he
started before Pearl Harbor. He broadcast
for a year before Pearl Harbor.
In fact, he intended to—he tried to
stop after Pearl Harbor—but he was
refused admission to the United States
because he was told by the consul in
Italy, who turned out to be a Communist,
that he was “persona non grata” with the
United States government and could not
return here.
And Ezra knew nothing of these
things. He thought: “Well, this is
official. The United States tells me I’m
persona non grata.” And, apparently, the
guy just made it up on the spot, because
no such judgment had ever been made.
And so, he went back and stayed in
Italy, then, for the rest of the war. But
they could never have tried him, because
he had tried to come back to the United
States and had been lied to by his own
government, or an official. The only
reason that they could make a charge of
treason was that he was in Italy after Pearl
Harbor.
Martin: And why was Alger Hiss,
specifically, threatened by Ezra Pound?
Mullins: Alger Hiss was a fanatical
KGB agent. Pound had always been very
anti-Communist. Most writers and artists
in New York between the two wars were
very Communistic. Ezra was one of the
few who was a loyal Constitutionalist all
social reformer. Pound agreed with those
who believed that the economic system
was being exploited by Jewish financiers.
During World War II he made (in
Rome) a series of radio broadcasts. In
1945 he was arrested by the U.S. forces,
while he was still an American citizen.
Pound spent 12 years in Washington DC,
in a hospital for the criminally insane.
During this period he received the
1949 Bollingen Prize for his Pisan
Cantos, which concerned his
imprisonment at the camp near Pisa.
After he was released, he returned to
Italy, where he spent his remaining years.
Pound died on November 1, 1972 in
Venice.
According to Katherine Anne Porter:
“Pound was one of the most opinionated
and unselfish men who ever lived, and
he made friends and enemies
of his life, and totally dedicated to his
own homeland, even though he lived in
Europe.
Martin: And wasn’t it Ezra who
planted the seed for you to write Secrets
Of The Federal Reserve?
Mullins: Well, he just simply asked
me to go to the Library of Congress, after
I met him and became a regular visitor.
By my second visit, I think, he said:
“Would you mind going by the Library
of Congress and seeing what you could
find out about the Federal Reserve
System?”
And I had never heard of it. I had no
idea what it was.
I said: “What is that?”
And he pulled out a dollar bill that he
had in his wallet, and he showed me that
it said Federal Reserve at the top. And, of
course, I had been handling money for
years, as a cashier and so forth, and I had
never seen those two words in my life.
[Laughter]
Martin: [Laughter] So, you ended-up
going on quite a research project.
Mullins: I went to the Library of
Congress, you know, without thinking. I
had no interest in banking, or anything
like that, and I thought: “It’s going to be
a very dull project.”
But only a few days into it, I found the
evidence of this gigantic conspiracy to
secretly write the Federal Reserve Act;
and then to present it to Congress as a
“fait accompli” in 1913, which was done.
[Editor’s note: The French phrase “fait
accompli” literally means “an
accomplished fact” and refers to
something that has already been done—
like it or not.]
It gave the Federal Reserve the
government license to print money,
which, if you want to get a government
everywhere by the simple exercise of
the classic American constitutional right
of free speech.” (The Letters Of E.P.,
1907-1941, review in New York Times
Book Review, 29 October 1950.)
As an essayist Pound wrote mostly
about poetry. But from the mid-1920s,
he examined, in several writings, the
ways economic systems promote or
debase culture.
Pound published over 70 books and
translated Japanese plays and Chinese
poetry.
“Great literature is simply language
charged with meaning to the utmost
possible degree.”
[Editor’s note: This general
biographical information (edited,
corrected, and rearranged) was
excerpted from the www.kirjasto.sci.fi/
epound.htm Internet website.]
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