European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William August 1977 bewavi0ralterimg Prog myth of innocence of Vanzetti at the rate we Are the Man left who will the universally acknowledged to have been guilty of anything is Adolf Massachusetts is particularly consumed by the passion to a while ago the legislature solemnly convened for the purpose of exonerating All those witches hanged in leaving open the question of whether witchcraft motivated that Deci then somebody appeared with a Book insisting in paint of pall Rivers Lizzie Borden had not Given her father 40 whacks with an then the Massachusetts bar association gave Alger Hiss Back his License to practice the and perhaps in due course the legislature will vote to buy him another typewriter and restoring to him the full paraphernalia of his old and now Michael Dukakis has declared that the 50th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and will be devoted to their incidentally de Claring unfair the trial that sentenced them to who is a very Nice should do a Little Reading before contributing to a myth already lapidary in american history the myth of the unfair trial of Sacco and and of their innocence of the murders at while he was at Udakis might As Well have pronounced that the dead bodyguard and paymaster were anyone wanting to read the Best account of the Sacco Vanzetti Case available should get tragedy in by Francis the historian and the Book was published in but rus Sells interest in the Case and he has most recently published in National review a 50th anniversary summary of the controversy which removes the final Straw on which the defenders of Sacco and Van Zettis innocence this is the so called Fri secret two Fri agents volunteered to the  defense five years after the that the Bureau had colluded with the prosecution against s v on the theory that getting the two anarchists out of the Bis hair via a murder rap was not a bad solution to the Sacco Vanzet to passion plays have been writ ten on the theme of the secret Fri Edgar Hoover thoroughly investigated the complaint at the time and pronounced it but Hoover would never turn Over the that being his policy throughout his but the Freedom of information act of 197s Over Rode this and the 701 pages in the bureaus files have been thoroughly exam ined by Francis it turns out that far from Sacco and Vanzetti being longtime sources of irritation to the the Bureau knew absolutely nothing about them until after their arrest on the murder there was no collusion Between the Bureau and the prosecution until after the at which Point the Bureau sought permission to place a informer in the same prison with Sacco seeking Possi ble leads to the identity of the Wall Street bombing the two Fri agents who gave the false information to the defense committee were themselves one of them be Thurman had been appointed to the Bureau by an old the head of the Bureau Hoover became director in 1924 who was himself a political pal dings attorney Harry Daugher the agent was an elderly alcoholic who had once been a drug he had been removed u1 1924 because of neglect of failure to maintain discipline and to properly supervise the work of his Divi the other agent Wyand began his career As an informer for the in 1919 he was made a special agent notwithstanding that he had defrauded his creditors in a bankruptcy while an he Moon lighted As a Bootlegger re member this was the he and Letherman used to hold drinking bouts in Letherman 3 when Hoover was made he retired All politically appointed agents including Weyand and trading on the resentments of these disgraced and disgruntled Russell Thompson the defense attorney persuaded them to make the affidavit that he himself shaped and 01x97 r James Reston Thorf subversive Russell doctrine i venture to propose for the read ers favourable Bertrand Russell once a doctrine which i appear wildly paradoxical and the doctrine in question is this that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground what Ever for supposing it we fished this out of an old silly season file the other Day when Chicago began talk ing about a world series Between the cubs and the White and finally decided to reprint it after Reading some recent hot weather Beame insists new York will balance the Carter says welfare plan will end Cor Brezhnev backs human Lance says everything president lost tors of wife Mountain out Ofa republicans seek Liberal there is no evidence whatever for supposing that Alt these things Are you might As Well announce that boys dont like for some Quirky human the Russell doctrine and others like it never seem to gain much take the Case of the chief Justice of the United Warren he pre no admirer of lord whose views on sex were somewhat and Vance and on pacifism somewhat re but justic Burger came up a while ago with an equally Radical this was that it is undesirable for the president or the Congress to propose new Laws without providing enough judges to administer those his judicial put Forward with the utmost was if the White House and the Congress insisted that Industry submit to Impact statements a fancy phrase for considering what you were maybe the executive and legislative branches should do the this produced quite a Hiccup and was regarded As the silliest suggestion since Barry Gold water proposed that the country get up enough scratch to pay its for the president Lias lust pro posed to legalize the millions of illegal aliens in this with full social Bene including welfare for those who have been Here since but he made no provision for the Cost or Impact of these people and their families on the budgets of new York or los or consider Secretary of state Vances recent trip to the Middle East he knew before he left that the israelis would say no to the Plo they have been saying it for months twit Hes now saying before flying off to China that the problems of territory and representation in the Middle East should be left to the foreign whose Power is even less visible than their the Defiance of the Russell doctrine of rational scepticism is not to be explained by the excessive summer heat or by any monopoly of As rus sell nationalism is an extreme exam ple of passionate belief in narrow and doubtful political beliefs and for u no ground what Ever for supposing that Mexico can go on doubling its population and unemployment every generation and exporting us talented but wordless to the United states without provoking a really serious crisis in mexican relations within the or that Rene Levesque can separate Quebec from Canada without risking the dismemberment of that great country and disrupting the Friendly am essential eco nomic and military relations of North but these things Are happening without regard to russells doctrine that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for Tup posing it the scepticism i Russell amounts Only to this 1 when the experts Are the opposite min Ion cannot be held to be certain i when they Are not no opinion can be regarded As certain by 3 when they All hold that no sufficient grounds for a positive opinion the Ordinary Man would do Well to suspend his Russell suggested while these propositions May seem if a they would absolutely revolution ize human 1c no Vert Tunis the eve my a Mhd in on Cohins my Newnum my m in a ten min u pm mid m ten mine it Tut Van str Coor no mud