Ezra Pound | America, Roosevelt and the causes of the present war

Angered by the carnage of World War I, Ezra Pound blamed the war on finance capitalism, which he called "usury". He moved to Italy in 1924 and through the 1930s and 1940s promoted an economic theory known as social credit, wrote for publications owned by the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, embraced Benito Mussolini's fascism, and expressed support for Adolf Hitler.

During World War II, Pound recorded hundreds of paid radio propaganda broadcasts for the fascist Italian government and its later incarnation as a German puppet state, in which he attacked the United States federal government, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Britain, international finance, munitions makers, arms dealers, Jews, and others, as abettors and prolongers of the war. 

"The main events dealt with in this pamphlet are:

(1) The suppression of the paper-money issue in Pennsylvania, A.D. 1750.

(2) The American Revolution (1776) and its subsequent betrayals.

(3) How the United States fell into the hands of the international usurocracy during the Civil War after about 1863.

These events should be considered in relation to the present war (1939- )".

Ezra Pound | America, Roosevelt and the causes of the present war (1944). Title of original work: L' America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente. First published at Venice in 1944. First English Edition. Translated by John Drummond. Current Edition: GRECOBOOKS, 2025 - ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΠΟΡΙΑ. ISBN: 978-618-5383-59-6