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Ezra Pound

United States

During World War II, Ezra Pound made hundreds of anti-American radio broadcasts from Italy, earning him the label Tokyo Rose of Italy. After the war, he was arrested and charged with treason, but was found mentally unfit for trial and spent 12 years in a mental hospital. His charges were dropped in 1958, and he returned to Italy, where he continued writing poetry and translating ancient Chinese texts until his death in Venice in 1972.