"Cette lettre insidieuse du Reichsgerichtanwalt qui met en cause la vie de ces malheureux."

Autograph letter signed and dated by Romain Rolland, 26 lines in blue ink, denouncing the accusation, by the Hitler regime, of the participation of Bulgarian communist militants in the Reichstag fire. Georges Dimitrov, head of the Comintern 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.
Fold inherent to postal dispatch.
Romain Rolland fully committed himself to the defense of his Bulgarian comrades incriminated by the Third Reich: "Enclosed copy of the response I am addressing to the Reichsgerichtanwalt of Leipzig. I have made use of the indications provided by the international commission of inquiry on the Reichstag fire, from which I received a detailed letter..." despite his precarious state of health: "No, I am not recovered. My health is still very poor, but I could not leave unanswered this insidious letter from the Reichsgeritchanwalt which calls into question the lives of these unfortunates."
Tireless pacifist militant and scourge of imperialisms, Romain Rolland also supports the liberation struggle of autonomist movements: "For the Indo-Chinese, it is very difficult to find available funds - which are lacking to come to the aid of the oppressed of Europe. Is there not a way that the International Commission of Amsterdam which is currently in the Far East could stop, on the return, in Indo-China?."
Very beautiful letter from an intellectual engaged in the struggle against all imperialisms and dictatorial regimes.