Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Letter-writing campaign===
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When war broke out in September 1939, Pound began a letter-writing campaign to the politicians he had petitioned months earlier.<ref>Tytell (1987), 257–258</ref> On 18 June 1940, after the [[Battle of France|fall of France]], he wrote to Senator [[Burton K. Wheeler]]: "I have read a regulation that only those foreigners are to be admitted to the U.S. who are deemed to be useful etc/. The dirtiest jews from Paris, [[Léon Blum|Blum]]??" He explained that they were all a pox.<ref>Redman (1991), 201–202</ref> To his publisher, [[James Laughlin]], he wrote that "Roosevelt represents Jewry" and signed off with "Heil Hitler".<ref name=":4"/> He began calling Roosevelt "Jewsfeldt" or "Stinky Rooosenstein".<ref name=Tytell1987p257/> In ''[[Meridiano di Roma]]'' he compared Hitler and Mussolini to [[Confucius]].<ref name=Tytell1987p259>Tytell (1987), 259</ref> In [[Oswald Mosley]]'s newspaper, ''[[Action (newspaper)|Action]]'', he wrote that the English were "a slave race governed by the [[Rothschild family|House of Rothschild]] since Waterloo".<ref name=Tytell1987p257/> By May 1940, according to the historian [[Matthew Feldman (historian)|Matthew Feldman]], the British government regarded Pound as "a principal supplier of information to the BUF <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[British Union of Fascists]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> from abroad".<ref>Feldman (2013), 4</ref> His literary agent in New York, [[John J. Slocum]], urged him to return to writing poetry and literary criticism; instead, Pound sent Slocum political manifestos, which he declined to attempt to publish in the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Slocum |first1=John J. |last2=Pound |first2=Dorothy |title=Remembering Ezra Pound |journal=[[Yale University Library Gazette]]|date=1982 |volume=57 |issue=1/2 |page=59 |jstor=40858806|issn=0044-0175}}</ref>