Noted Germans Cable Protest To Gov Fuller, Daily Worker (Article, July 1926)
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"Berlin, July 11, -- Following the protests against the execution of the death sentence upon Sacco and Vanzetti sent to Governor Fuller of Massachuseets by practically all leaders of the German trade union movement and the labor members of the Reichstag headed by Paul Loeb, the president of that body, another cable has been dispatched to the New England executive over the names of some of the republic's foremost publicists, diplomats, scientists, and artists.
Former Ambassador Count von Bernstorff head the list which includes Maximillian Harden, the famous publicist and Prof. Einstein the great mathematician.
The telegram, of protest reads:
WE JOIN THE PROTEST AGAINST THE SENTENCE AND THREATENING EXECUTION OF SACCO AND VANZETTI. WE EXPECT A RESUMPTION IF THE DEFENSE HAS PROCURED NEW PROOFS OF INNOCENCE AND RELEASE OF ACCUSED.
The signatures are as follows:
Count von Bernstorff, former ambassador to the U.S.; Maximillian Harden, publicist; Rudolph Breitescheid, M.P.; Prof. Dr. Max von Schillings, director of the state opera, Berlin; Max Libermann, president of the Prussian Academy of Arts; Siegfried Jacoby, secretary, Prof. Einstein; Erwin Kiesc, publicist; Dr. Artur Helischer, publicist; Princess Mathilde Lichnowski, publicist; Prof. Heinrich Zille, painter; Max Brod, publicist; Sanitary Council Dr. Magnust Hirschfeld; Karin Miachelis, publicist; Gustav Richelt, president of the International Actor's Society.
Country Aroused.
The list of notable added to those who have already sent their protests indicates the extent to which the Sacco-Vanzetti traila has aroused public sentiment in addition to the high feeling running thru the entire labor movement against the bald frame-up of the two Italian workers in the Bay state.
