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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Treason charges against poet Ezra Pound dropped
On April 18, 1958, treason charges against American poet Ezra Pound, first laid in 1943 in connection with his wartime broadcasts for the Italian Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, were dropped.
Read Jonas Doberman,
The Treason Debate: Ezra Pound and his Rome Radio Broadcasts
[PDF].
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