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Workers, farmers, Negro and white, The lynching bosses we must fight. Close your fists and raise them high, Labor Defense is our battle cry. Scottsboro boys shall not die, Scottsboro boys shall not die. Workers led by I. L. D.† Will set them free, set them free...
...SCOTTSBORO BOYS SHALL...
Though he led a more public life after the War, as befitted Germany's foremost novelist, did his bit for reconstruction by lecturing in Paris, served as president of the Bavarian section of the German Authors Society and signed a cable pleading for executive clemency in the Scottsboro case, he joined no party, stayed away from social and political functions. When the Nazi broom began to sweep Germany clean of non-"Aryans," "Aryan" Thomas Mann picked up his household goods and left. Resigned to permanent exile, he says: "As a German. I can understand what has happened...
...potent citizenship. Chief interest of his declining years is the building of a cathedral which is to be a mausoleum for himself. On the side he buttresses his already sturdy fortune by canny trading among the hotheads of a real-estate boom. When a lynching scare (in outline the Scottsboro case) threatens to undermine the town's prosperity, the Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses anyway and there is a run on the bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town. But nothing really hits him hard until his daughter...
They Shall Not Die (by John Wexley; produced by the Theatre Guild). Playwright Wexley bases his works (The Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty...