Pound was such an endearing genius that his many friends that hailed from from almost all schools of political thought (Hemingway was Anti Hitler, Bernard Shaw was an Axis sympathizing Stalinist etc) refused to throw him under the bus and rallied for his release from Prison.

Really drove our friends in the small hats up a fucking wall (and still does so today).


thenation.com/article/archive/coming-to-terms-with-ezra-pounds-politics/tnamp/