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Write or telegraph Governor Alvin T. Fuller, State House, Boston,
Mass., petitioning for their release.
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Among those American men and women who have petitioned Governor
Fuller for a review of the case by an impartial committee are:
Bishop Lawrence,
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick,
John Hays Hammond,
Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School;
Robert M. Hutchins, Dean of the Yale Law School;
Huger W. Jervey, Dean of the Columbia Law School;
Christian Gauss, Dean of Princeton College;
Sherwood Eddy,
Dr. Richard C. Cabot,
Bliss Perry,
Charles C. Burlingham,
Edgar Lee Masters,
Morton Prince,
Margaret Deland,
Henry S. Canby,
John Haynes Holmes,
William Lyon Phelps,
Charles P. Curtiss, Jr.,
Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
Frank W. Taussig,
Prof. E. M. Borchard,
Roland W. Boyden,
Francis B. Sayre,
Dr. Frank G. Goodnow,
John Graham Brooks,
Bishop Chauncey C. Brewster,
Fabian Franklin,
President Mary E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College,
Alexander M. Bing,
George Gordon Battle,
James Myers, Industrial Secretary, Federated Churches of Christ.
These men and women are only a few dozen of many thousands of
petitioners. The list goes on to include thirteen members of the
Columbia Law School faculty, nine members of the Yale Law School
faculty, six members of the Kansas Law School faculty, six members
of the Missouri Law School faculty, five members of the Illinois
Law School faculty, the entire faculty of the Minnesota Law school,
twenty-five members of the faculty of Clark University, 123 members
of the faculty of Smith College, members of the faculty and 650
students of the University of California.
Of those in Europe who have petitioned either President Coolidge or
Governor Fuller are Romain Roland, Albert Einstein, Henri Barbusse,
Anatole France.
Footnotes:
[1] Italics mine.
[2] These are Judge Thayer’s words. He must have meant “guiltily
conscious.”