Demand

In international tennis, world's No. 1 amateur is Donald Budge, No. 2 is Baron Gottfried von Cramm. While Donald Budge is tuning up his game for the coming season, Gottfried von Cramm is languishing in a Nazi prison. Last week a group of U. S. athletes, headed by Tennist Budge, demanded von Cramm's release. Criticizing the failure of the Nazi Government to amplify their charges of "moral delinquency" on which the baron was arrested last March, the U. S. athletes protested that the Nazi accusations were a "mere subterfuge . . . that the secrecy of methods employed suggests . . . the innocence of the victim. . . ."

But even the most optimistic signatories of the open letter held out little hope of seeing handsome Baron von Cramm. in his customary flannels and gay-striped blazer, step out on the international tennis courts this summer.

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