Editing Ezra Pound (section)

===Mullins and Kasper===
While in St. Elizabeths, Pound would often decline to talk to psychiatrists with names he deemed Jewish (he called psychiatrists "kikiatrists"),<ref>Cohassey (2014), 142</ref> and he apparently told [[Charles Olson]]: "I was a Zionist in Italy, but now I'm for pogroms, after what I've experienced in here (SLiz)."<ref>Olson (1991), 93</ref> He advised visitors to read the ''[[Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'', and he referred to any visitor he happened not to like as Jewish.<ref>Tytell (1987), 303–304</ref> In November 1953 he wrote to [[Olivia Rossetti Agresti]] that Hitler was "bit by dirty Jew mania for World Domination, as yu used to point out/ this WORST of German diseases was got from yr/ idiolized and filthy biblical bastards. Adolf clear on the baccilus of kikism/ that is on nearly all the other poisons.[sic] but failed to get a vaccine against that."<ref>Tryphonopoulous and Surette (1998), 131–132; Kimpel and Eaves (1983), 50</ref>

Pound struck up a friendship with [[Eustace Mullins]], apparently associated with the Aryan League of America and author of the 1961 biography ''This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound''.<ref>Tytell (1987), 304; Wilhelm (1994), 286, 306</ref> Even more damaging was his friendship with [[John Kasper]], a [[Ku Klux Klan]] member who, after ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' (a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating racial desegregation in public schools), set up a [[Citizens' Council]] chapter, the Seaboard White Citizens' Council in Washington.<ref>Tytell (1987), 306; Barnhisel (1998), 283; Marsh (2015), 93</ref> Members had to be white, supportive of racial segregation, and believers in the divinity of Jesus.<ref>Marsh (2015), 135–136</ref> Kasper wrote to Pound after admiring him at university, and the two became friends.<ref name=":1">Tytell (1987), 306</ref> In 1953 Kasper opened a far-right bookstore, "Make it New", at 169 [[Bleecker Street]], [[Greenwich Village]],<ref>Swift (2017), 198</ref> that displayed Pound's work in the window.<ref>Tytell (1987), 307; Hickman (2005), 127</ref> With Pound's cooperation, he and another Pound admirer, T. David Horton, set up Square Dollar Series, a publishing imprint that reprinted Pound's books and others he approved of.<ref>Tytell (1987), 307; Barnhisel (1998), 276ff; Moody (2015), 295</ref>

It became increasingly clear that Pound was schooling Kasper in the latter's pro-segregation activism.<ref>Tytell (1987), 308</ref> In January and February 1957 the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' ran a series of articles on their relationship, after which the FBI began photographing Pound's visitors.<ref>Barnhisel (1998), 287–288; Moody (2017), 378</ref> One article alleged that some of Kasper's pamphlets had, as [[John Tytell]] put it, "a distinctly Poundian ring" to them.<ref>Tytell (1987), 306; {{cite news |last1=Bird |first1=Robert S. |title=Pound's Ideology Permeates Kasper Speeches, Writing |work=The Nashville Banner |agency=New York Herald Tribune News Service |date=31 January 1957 |page=3}}</ref>{{efn|For example, one flier was modeled on the 1914 ''[[Blast (British magazine)|Blast]]'' manifesto: "JAIL [[NAACP]], alien, unclean, unchristian / BLAST irrelevant ungodly LEADERS".<ref name=":1"/>}} Kasper was jailed in 1956 over a speech he made in Clinton, Tennessee,<ref>Tytell (1987), 308; [https://www.nytimes.com/1957/06/02/archives/jail-term-upheld-for-bias-leader-kasper-foe-of-integration-loses.html "Jail term upheld for bias leader"]. ''The New York Times'', 2 June 1957</ref> and he was questioned about the [[Hattie Cotton Elementary School bombing|1957 bombing of the Hattie Cotton School]] in Nashville.<ref>Tytell (1987), 308; Carpenter (1988), 829; Webb (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=-dDQ6ZWRTzYC&pg=PA88 88–89]; Marsh (2015), 203; "Police Firmness in Nashville". ''Life'' magazine, 23 September 1957, [https://books.google.com/books?id=PD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34 34]</ref> After Pound left hospital in 1958, the men kept in touch; he wrote to Kasper on 17 April 1959: "Antisemitism is a card in the enemy program, don't play it.&nbsp;... They RELY ON YOUR PLAYING IT."<ref>Carpenter (1988), 829; Marsh (2015), 229</ref>