28 JANUARY 1928, Page 20

For sheer sentimental twaddle The Life and Death of Sacco

and Vanzetti. by a Mr. Lyons (whom the publishers describe as a distinguished American journalist) would be difficult to emulate and impossible to surpass. Two young atheists and anarchists who accepted American hospitality in order to subvert current American beliefs cannot be made into martyrs, however much we may deplore the judicial - delays which were possible under the laws of Massachusetts, and of which their friends availed themselves to the full. The purpose of such a book may be to serve the cause of Communist propaganda. If so, the revolutionaries can only

catch very poor fish with such bait: - *• * *