KEPT ON PUTTING IT OFF

NZ Truth, Issue 1128, 14 July 1927, Page 1

KEPT ON PUTTING IT OFF

Sentence Long Deferred By U.S.A. ; Police Authorities 3 Apologists for America are never tired of attributing its peer cadilloes to immaturity and of saying that it is natural for a young nation to jump to hasty conclusions.

IT is simply excess of energy, foi*ce of character and all that sort of thing. But no such excuses apply t to the sentence just passed at Dedham, 1 Massachusetts, on the two Italian f socialists, Sacche and Vanizettl, after six years', delay. 3 They were arrested and conviot--1 ed m July, 1921, of having rnur* 1 , dered a x pay-roll clerk and his c bodyguard. Ever since then, however, the triaji t has been the subject of protest quite 1 outside tho range of the party. B Practically the only circumstantial c evidence set against their earnest- as- . servations of innocence was the fact ' that they were bearing arms, but thla

is a paltry detail m a I land .like the U.S.A., especially at a time like the one m question, when the country was hysterical m its anti-Communism. The national protest .has .been endorsed, by remonstrances from all parts of . the' globe, and strong- groups of representative people who have nothing, to do witlh. politics or party have urged the need for a re-lrlal. But the syndics of Dedham (the very name has a smack of the Inquisition) have consigned* the prisoners to capital punishment, the sentence to be carried out this month. — From "NiZ. Truth's" Special London Representative* ■*■'■: ': '"■ -'■ ■ I