Importante lettre autographe datée et signée adressée à Francis Jourdain évoquant ses combats politiques et notamment la défense de Georges Dimitrov accusé à tort par le régime nazi d'être le responsable de l'incendie du Reichstag

Autograph letter dated and signed by Romain Rolland, 42 lines in black ink, denouncing the accusation, by the Hitler regime, of the participation of Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Tanev and Popov in the Reichstag fire. Georges Dimitrov, head of the Comintern's International Communist bureau for Western Europe, is in Berlin in February 1933. On the night of February 27, the Nazi regime, then in power for only a month, takes advantage of the criminal arson of the Reichstag to impute responsibility to communist militants and the left-wing opposition. On March 9, Dimitrov is arrested with five of his companions including Tanev and Popov. After a long trial in Leipzig and a public counter-trial organized by German communist Willy Münzenberg, Dimitrov is acquitted.
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Romain Rolland is entirely occupied with denouncing, from Switzerland by launching petitions and appeals, the critical situation of Bulgarian communists Georges Dimitrov and his companions Tanev and Popov: "I must, at this very moment, draft one or several to call for help for Dimitrov and their companions, who are under the axe; and we should, in these weeks, concentrate all our efforts on this danger, of all the most poignant..."
For the moment, he cannot therefore mobilize to defend other political battles and attempts to rally all good will and energies for the combat that occupies him and which he judges priority: "I urge you to ask Gide to draft the appeal for the Indo-Chinese. But if it does not have extreme urgency to save unfortunates from suspended execution, it would be better to wait for the outcome of the Leipzig affair, so as not to disperse forces. I would like there to exist a central direction of all these movements of protest and defense, - and that we stagger the manifestations, making a bloc, each time, of all our forces, on one point, and after on another."
He calls with all his wishes for an international defense of the oppressed and victims of totalitarianisms under the patronage of renowned intellectual figures: "Otherwise, we are doomed in advance to lose all battles, - in these days, all for Dimitrov, Turgler and the two other accused! ... For each category of protests, there would be in advance designated personalities. For Indochina preferably those who, in some way have dealt with 'colonial' questions: you, Challaye, Andrée Viollis, André Gide. I would be specialized for Germany, etc... Of course, all our names would be grouped at the bottom of each of these protests."
Very fine letter from an intellectual engaged in the struggle against the irresistible grip of fascist and Nazi regimes and calling for the creation of a league of intellectuals against all these dictatorships.