The New York herald., 1922-01-15
,SACCO-V -VANZETTIAD
in BOMBING PLOTS
Consular Bulletin Reveals
Attacks OH Many Ameri-
can Diplomats.
REDS PLAN OUTBREAKS
Agitation to- Save Slayers
Convicted in Bay State
Spreads Widely.
TRY TO TERRORIZE COURTS
Ambassador Herrick and Gen.
Pershing Among Targets
of Radicals.
Special Dispatch to THE NEE York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.

New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Jan. IL.
The "open season" for attacks by
bombs and Internal machines on
American consuls and diplomatists is
described by Frederick Simpich. ed
itor of the American Consular Bulle-
tin, Government publication. In the
current issue Of that magazine. issued
to-day, he writes:
Autumn was the open season for
our consuls and diplomats. Bombs
and Internal machines were tossed
about. keeping many an embassy and
consulate busy sweeping UP the wreck
age and putting in new window glass.
Ambassador Herrick got a package
labeled 'perfumery.' Luckily the Am
bassador himself didn't open it--for It
blew up, jarring the villa where the
Ambassador lives. and jarring Gen.
Pershing. who happened to be present,
into drawing his gun and starting a
hunt for the wouldbe assassin.
Meanwhile. down at Lisbon a bomb
big enough to hoist Consul General Hol-
lis to glory went off-but Hollis stayed
If the fuse had been shorter. the Con-
sul-General reports. some one else
would have had the honor Of writing
this Dispatch Cest magnifique.
Menaces Mt other Points.
Threats were received or demonstra-
tons made at Brussels. Marseilles,
Juarez, Buenos Aires and Genoa, but no
one in the consular service was killed.
hurt or event stampeded.
I'm this cowardly manner the Rcd
world voiced it's protest at what 1t
styles the persecution Of two Italians.
Sacco and Vanzetti, on trial for murder
in Massachusetts.
I'm July last jury chosen. from hum
dreds of talesmen STAYED out five hours
wrestling with $500 pages of testi-
mony--and then brought in verdic. of
guilty. CTo muddy the water more 1t
came out in the trial that both sacco
had run away to Mexico In war times
to avoid the draft) a new trial has
eeen granted and islpow ypRder way. a.
I'm the meantime radical propaganda
is flooding the earth: propaganda which
teaches the outside world that there Is
no jus.'ce in Americl for the working
man; that the foreigner Is Disseminated
against: that capitalism is the power
behind the courts in New England.
THE story of how these propagan-
dists work. as told by one writer. is
curious instance of the power OF
ropaganda-perniciou or otherwise.
"Three men in dimly lit. scantily
furnished office in Boston, a Spanish
carpenter, a former Columbia student
of % morris Gebelow, whose pen name
is Eugene LyonsD and an Italian radi-
cal writer named Felicana put the
torch to the powder trail OF propa-
ganda that swept over Europe into
Russia and even down INTO South
America. Their only equipment was a
few typewriters, a live mailing list,
little money--and the phrase Save
Sacco and vanzetti.' A Sacco-Vanzetti
defense committee was organized and a
tiny. newspaper called L'A1ttdtion was
started. It's avowed purpose was to
convince foreign peoples and govern
| ments that these two Italians were con-
victed because they were foreigners ac-
| tive In strikes and members Of the an
! archist-Communist group in Boston.
Warned of Courts.
Through all the propaganda put out
1 1an tlIS DOtcs Any ltlllulSIdnl iHlSut
| fall victim to American courts. One
of its pamphlets, printed in English
and entitled Doomed to Die says:
Three factors weigh against Sacco and
vanzetti. They are Italians. they are
thinking workers. active In New Eng
! land labor movements for years-and
they oppose the vicious and brutal
methods OF the Department of Justice.
For dramatic effect the trio of prop
agandists compare the trial OF Sacco
and Vanzetti with the famous Dreyfus
and Mooney cases. Race prejudice, II
was alleged. caused the conviction OF
these two Italians. though the truth Is
the first trial of the case went or prac-
ticaily unnoticed. since the public was
not interested. Even the Boston papers
gave but little space to the incident
"It was only when the syndicalist pa
pers in Italy. In France. and Soutf
America, reacting quickly TO the skilful
appeals OF the propagandist trio begar
20 nrint the story OF this latest fniquity
of American capitalism and thereb,
to stir up riots. strikes and assaults or
our embassies and consulates, thai
American attention was drawn &c Sacct
and vanzettL"