Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
SACCOF|GHT .ST|RS
OFF|C|ALDOM HERE
State Department Concern
ed Over Wave of Feeling in
Other Countries,
by DREW PEARSON.

U1 DREW PEAhSON.
The State Department is consider
ably worried over the wave of anti
Americanism which the Sacco-Van
Zetti case has stirred up in every cor
ner of the world officials here are
amazed at the outburst of feeling
made evident by boycotts and demon
STATIONS in such remote and unaHect-
ed countries as Morocco. Paraguay
and Panama, and it appears newt
able that American trade will suffer
as a result. -.s.,
Coming at a time when world opin'
ion toward the United States was dis
tinctly on the upgrade, the Sacco'
Nanzetti agitation is believed by some
officials to have more than wiped out
the wave of American enthusiasm
started by the Lindbergh, Chamber
lin and Byrd flights in Europe.
The State Department, which az
wavs keeps carefully posted on eacn
furry of anti-Americanism abroad
has received in the present instance
not only its usual reports from lts
own officers, but hundreds OF protests
from private individuals in foreign
countries. Washington has been
literally deluged. Some petitions haNe
come through the medium OF Amer,
can consuls, some have been Ilatle4
mr. cabled direct to the department. am.
others have scome through the depart
ment to be forwarded to Presloeh'
Coolidge,
Protests Sent to Fuller.
All of them eventually have been
sen, ~ Gov. Fuller, while the SEND
ers have been notified that the STATE
Denartment could not interfere III q
matter which concerned the State u
Massachusetts. - +b;s
Although strictly maintaining inns
,osition of aloofness, and making no
Comments, state Department oi'cials
Gro much concerned over this reNui-
sion of feeling, sfnce<it may cut deeply
into the amount of American CONNER
cial sales and investments placed III
foreign countries and may hardicap
the ease of conducting foreign reia-
ffons. And afters having done every
thing possible to better the Wofio
opinion of the United States, especial
Nv in China and Latin America. the
State Department hates 10 see IFS
work vanish over night.
Secretary Kellogg does not con-
si6er the labor demonstrations in the
capitaIs of Europe as necessarily fef-
rasentative of universal opinion III
these countries, but Cabled protests
bv such people as Nine. Curie. Frlo-
iof Nansen. President Masaryk of
s.zechoslovakia, Prof. Einstein, Mar
u,,is Guy de Lasteyre, the grandson OF
Lafayette; Louis Loucheur. Joseph
1,allaux and Alfred Dreyfus make II
evident that the upper and midnie
classes of Europe on this occasion
stand with the working classes.
Moreover a resolution by the IRA
ruayan Chamber of Deputies asking
off rin
not be ignored Nor can the fact that
the Paris newspapers. radical anu con-
sentative alike are devoting columns
of space to the fight of the two men.
Leading News Featured.
On the morning the. Geneva naval
conference broke up, u Paris news
papers devoted four times as much
space to Sacco and Vanzetti as to the
conference, "Humanite" said tnat II
Sacco and Vanzettf are put TO death.
il win be impossible for the American
Legion to hold Its convention in Paris,
while Bowen Elder. head of the Legion
national coramittee.s has informed his
national commander by cable OF the
deep emotion and excitement by the
French people and asked him to IN
tervene Another French paper prints
a picture of. the Statue of Liberty
holding a gibbet in her hand instead
OF a. scale. ~ ss&,
The manner in which the impending
death of two men has aroused the fire
and imagination of the world is amaz-
ing. General strikes. were called In
both Paraguay and Uruguay. the lat
ter being so successful that the streets
were denuded of traffic except for
street cars, which were operated only
under guard of the regular army.
In Buenos Aires d general strike was
equally successful, the streets being
practically empty.
In Casa blanca, Morocco a crowd
hurled stones through the windows OF
the American consulate and burned
the American flag. In Panama, where
the State Department is especially
anxious for favorable opinion because
Of a pending treaty. the SaccoVan
zetti trial vas compared to the Loeb
Leopold trial and the conclusions
drawn that where the sons Of million
aires and Italian workmen were con-
cerned. American scales of justice
we're unbalanced.
In Great Britain the newspapers
have recognized that. the outside
world has no right to interfere with
the Massachusetts. court, but point
out that hostile foreign feeling would
be appeased if the. prisoners were not
executed. In Germany a group of Il
prominent judges. and lawyers issued
a statement condemning the seven
year delay as ''inexplicable, and urg
ing that the death sentence be COM
muted.
L. S. Government Blamed.
Many of the protests make the mis-
take of blaming the United States
Government for Il matter in which it
has no jurisdiction. but the effect, not
easily to be dispelled. is to lump the
blame and criticism and ill-wi.l on the
United States and the American
people as a whole: