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...committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...
...Colonel Dreyfus should be particularly fitted to sympathize with Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti as from 1894 to 1906 he was the centre of the Dreyfus Case. This case in many ways paralleled the Sacco-Vanzetti case, though to the present generation of U. S. newspaper readers it is hardly more than a name. Many who read the announcement of Dreyfus' visit were surprised to find that the hero of the Dreyfus Case was still alive and active...
...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...
Then began a 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...
There are also less obvious analogies between these two great cases, analogies that do not appear in the trial records, but which are no less certain. In the Dreyfus case, the "honor" of the French army was involved, and before the trial was over, the prosecution had found it necessary to commit forgery and withhold evidence in order to save that "honor". In the present case, the dignity of Massachusetts courts is involved, and this dignity has made it necessary for the court to refuse motions for a new trial when there exists more than a reasonable doubt...