Ezra Pound Radio #01 (October 2, 1941) "Last Ditch of Democracy"

#1 (October 2, 1941) U.S.(A43) LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY

"The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound's broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been effected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are." - Foreword

Source: "Ezra Pound Speaking" - Radio Speeches of WWII
Edited by Leonard W. Doob

"The present collection consists of original manuscripts Pound prepared to read on Rome radio... In a few instances gaps in the manuscripts themselves have been filled by sections of the FCC transcripts; these substitutions are clearly indicated." - Introduction

Link to text: https://archive.org/stream/EzraPoundS...

Closed Captions (CC) are source text. (There are several reading errors.)

This recording is a re-enactment and not the original broadcast.

#09 and #11 are the only original broadcast recordings (Pound's voice) in this collection.

Photograph of the American poet Ezra Pound (1885–1972) in May 1898 with his mother, Isabel Weston Pound (1860–1948). The image shows the letters C.M.A. on the neck of his uniform, Cheltenham Military Academy, Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, which Pound attended from 1897 to 1900.