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234 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
count indictment, only four are to be found in the Library of Congress
transcripts. None of them are to be found in the file of the
case, in the United States Court House in Washington.
Of the four broadcasts cited which are available, one, on March
19, 1943, had as its subject Henry Adams and the equation of the
acceleration of the historical process. The transcriber notes that
much of this broadcast was not taken down because of poor reception
and unintelligibility. The other three that are available—May
12, 1943, May 14, 1943, and May 15, 1943—all deal with the
same subject, an exposition of Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Welles' Toledo speech on economic aggression.
The indictment reads as follows:
"par. 1. That Ezra Pound, the defendant herein, was born in
Hailey, Idaho, October 30, 1885, and that he has been at all times
herein mentioned and is now a citizen of the United States of
America and a person owing allegiance to the United States of
America.
"2. That the defendant, Ezra Pound, at Rome, Italy, and
other places within the Kingdom of Italy and outside the jurisdiction
of any particular state or district, but within the jurisdiction
of the United States and of this Court, the District of Columbia
being the district in which he was found and into which he was
first brought, continuously and at all times beginning on the 11th
day of December 1941 and continuing thereafter to and including
the 3rd day of May, 1945, under the circumstances and conditions
and in the manner and by the means hereinafter set forth, then and
there being a citizen of the United States, and a person owing
allegiance to the United States, in violation of said duty of
allegiance, knowingly, intentionally, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously,
traitorously and treasonably did adhere to the enemies of
the United States, to wit; the Kingdom of Italy and the military
allies of the Kingdom of Italy, with which the United States at all
times since December 11, 1941 and during the times set forth in
this indictment, have been at war, giving to the said enemies of
the United States aid and comfort within the United States and
elsewhere, that is to say,