Oy vey!
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During the next decade he completed Cantos LII-LXXI (which focused on Chinese history) and started contributing anti-Semitic pieces to magazines. He had recently become a supporter of Hitler and of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In 1933 he was granted an audience with Mussolini and presented him with his digest of economic reforms and a draft of his Cantos. The influence of Mussolini is particularly apparent in the Pisan Cantos (LXVIV-LXXXIV), which were written while Pound was in the medical compound at Pisa. When this Won the Bollingen Prize in 1949, the literary and political world was incensed.
Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
And Yoshie, I see Governor Taft just signed the bill that passed the Ohio House (72-22)and Senate (18-15) , making Ohio the 38th state to prohibit the recognition of gay civil unions. Democrats in the legislature against the bill, Republicans for. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/national/04GAYS.html
-- Michael Pugliese