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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note in TIME, July 18 a letter from Miss Justine Agnes Clementine La Vie extolling the talent of Miss Florence Mills. Miss La Vie in her letter mentions enclosing a poem on the subject of her admiration-a poem which your footnote declares was top long to print. I should be very happy if you would send me a copy of Miss La Vie's poem as I think I could find use for it in the pages of our magazine...
Last week was made public a letter written by one Van Valkenburgh of Manhattan to Nicola Sacco. Mr. Van Valkenburgh told Mr. Sacco not to despair, assured him that his "long-suffering" would soon "end in freedom." Said Mr. Sacco, in his reply...
...Only an international clamor?a protest?can free us. And yet, while we are so near the tomb, your letter amazes me with its unwarranted optimism. How you are deluded! This is not even common sense, coming from you. I would say nothing if such talk came from a man in the moon, but from you ... this is too much. Do you not know the ends to which the defenders of this decrepit old society will go? ... Are you waiting to see them kill us first so that you can build us a monument? . . . Aside from the fate that stares...
...then Captain Dreyfus was attached to the General Staff of the French Army. In September, 1894, a French spy, examining the overcoat pockets of one Colonel Schwarzoppen, German Military Attache, found torn scraps of paper which, pieced together, proved to be a letter describing items of secret military information obviously delivered to Colonel Schwarzoppen by some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment...
...twelve-year war between Pro-and Anti-Semites. In 1897 one Major Esterhazy of the French Army was accused of having written the treasonable document imputed to Captain Dreyfus. He was tried, secretly, by a military court and, no Jew, was acquitted. In 1898 Emile Zola wrote an open letter to the French President, accused the general staff of having convicted Alfred Dreyfus because of his race. Zola was tried for libel, convicted, and had to leave France hurriedly to avoid imprisonment. Later in 1898, however, it was shown that some of the prosecution's evidence in the Dreyfus trial...