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30 March [1934]
E. POUND RAPALLO Via Marsala 12-5
Dear John Buchan
This is very magnificent and regal or viceregal of you. I haven't seen Holyrood for 32 years and short of a, or THE, new Economic order I don't see how I am likely to raise the carfare.
Far from abondoning troubadours I set two of Sordello's strophes in my "Cavalcanti" opera and I don't believe anybody who isn't "told" wd. twig that the music was "of the era"
// thass' advantage of picking a period where there are so few specialists. The B.B.C. did my Villon music, and promised to do the Cavalcanti, but Lord knows when .....
Also our falling on Janequin has cast light on Arnaut Daniel's Canzoni. (vide my ABC of Reading, now in press).
I will ask Faber to send you my ABC of Economics in search of points of agreement.
Apparently Mc N. Wilson finds something there that he didn't think Douglas was clear about/ or whereon he agreed with me and not with Doug//
What I see is convergence of the three healthy movements/
and whatever you may not have thought sound in D's early exposition may by now have been cleared up.
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E. Pound Rapallo via Marsala 12-5
At any rate both Cutting in the U.S. Senate/ and two chaps in the Canadian house seem clear on the essentials.
Isn't Blackett the man who was on the MacMillan committee and came out with a magnificent demur/ pubd/ at end of report, and saying in most curial language that who report was .... .......... BUNK !!
I don't know whether your great lords and masters have any new "dope" on France. I suspect Stawisky was a great crook on the second plane, and got immunity because he knew enough about DeWendel, Protot, and the gun=ghouls to enforce silence.
The devil's chief agent is certain in the bank of France/ and I stringly suspect several Britons can't get a clean bill.
// Our best cello is escaped for a month/ so we cant greet your noble fleet with the intended GRAND resurrection of old Bill Young*, as intended. However we'll get him out in May.
*"Guglielmo Young inglese"
interruptedly yours
Ezra Pound
Current events as reported both in New English Weekly, and New Democracy (55 Fifth Ave., N.Y.) are very exciting.... much more novelist's meat than the war. At any rate as watcher of history, it keeps one awake.
