[Ezra] Pound's daughter and one of this collection's editors--confirms, his father, Homer, was the more sympathetic correspondent of the two "Reverend Progenitors". He is the addressee of an ambivalent long letter from London about the American entry into the war in 1917 and, later, an abashed defence of the fascistic views that would eventually get Pound arrested for treason in 1945 ("I hate SOME JEWS but I have greater contempt for Christians").from Telegraph: Ezra Pound to his Parents: Letters 1895-1929 ed by Mary de Rachewiltz et al
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