SHOCKING outrage is tak-
ing place, A Jewish man and
woman, victims of- the hysteria
and red-baiting sweeping the
United States, are facing death’
for their political and social be-
lief,

The only crimes the Rosen-
bergs committed were:

V_ Having a Spanish Refu-
gee Appeal can in their home.

‘V_ Carrying sick and death
benefit insurance with the Inter-
national Workers Order, a-mul-
tinational, inter-racial fraternal
insurance society with 160,000
members in the U.S.

V_ Being active in their trade
unions.

V Occasionally reading the
New York Daily Worker.

V Believing that the USSR
had borne the brunt of the war
and had done its share in wiping
out the murderers of six million
Jews.

V Being pleased that the
United States and Britain open-
ed. up a second front.

V Ethel Rosenberg signed a
Petition in 1941 for Peter V.
Cacchione, successful Commun-
ist candidate for New York city
councilman. (The petition was
signed by 50,000 other New

orkers.

These are the “crimes” for
which Yankee reaction has sen-
tenced them to death!

The Pacific Tribune prints
here some of the pertinent facts
in the Rosenberg case, so that
its readers may see clearly the,
enormity of the crime being com-
Mitted against them.

Every reader should be ac-
quainted with these facts, should
explain them to his friends, and
Should do all his power to broad-
en the scope of the worldwide
Movement demanding a com<
Mutation of their death sen-
tences and justice.
®

[s 1939, Julius Rosenberg gradu-
ated from City College in New
Ork as an engineer. He married

Ethel Greenglass, a government

Secretary: working with the Census
Ureau in Washington. Julius got

& job as a junior engineer in the

Us, Signal Corps in New York:

Th 1945 he lost his job, on charges

°f Communist party affiliation,

Charges which he denied. He went

© Washington to see his congress-

Man and to try and get a clear-

Ance—but to no avail.

Towards the end of 1945. he
°Pened a small machine shop with
°ne of his wife. Ethel’s brothers.
In 1946, David Greenglass, his
wife’s youngest brother, came out
of the army and was taken into

€ business as a partner.

In 1945, Julius Rosenberg had

fen informed by [David Green-

Slass’ wife, Ruth, that she was

Worried about David for he had

Some idea of stealing something

from ithe army and selling it.

As business partners, the per-
Sonal relations between David and

Ulius grew worse until in 1949

avid pulled out asa partner with

Uling agreeing to pay him $1,000.

Tom there on, David and Julius

The

were scarcely on speaking terms,
Julius being unable to pay the
$1,000.

In the middle of May, 1950,
Greenglass came to Julius’ ma-
chine shop and told him, in ani
excited and agitated manner, that
he needed $2,000. David also en-
quired about the types of injec
tions necessary to enter Mexico.

Julius told his wife of this talk
and’ botheof them recalled the con-

- versation in 1945 when Ruth had

revealed that David ‘had ideas of
stealing some army information.
They also remembered David tell-
ing them, shortly after Dr. Klaus
Fuchs, a British scientist, and self-
confessed spy was arrested inj
February, 1950, that the FBI had
questioned him (Greenglass)..

. In June, Greenglass again press-
ed Rosenberg for $2,000 in cash
and when the latter said that it
was impossible for him to get the
money, Greenglass became angry
and said.

“Well, Julie, I’ve just got to
have that money and if you don’t
get that money for me, you are
going to be sorry.”

e@

On May 23, 1950, U.S. news-
papers carried a sensational story
that an alleged Soviet spy courier

named Harry Gold, had been ar-~

rested in connection with an al-
leged spy ring centering around

Dr. Klaus Fuchs.

This same Harry; Gold, in 1945,
visited Ruth and David Greenglass
in their New Mexico apartment.
He asked ‘for information about
a secret lens mold used in the
manufacture of the atomic bomb.
David Greenglass produced the re-
quested material, handed it over
to Gold and received $500. ‘

On June 15, the FBI raided
Greenglass’ apartment and told
him he was under arrest on charg-
es of committing espionage for
the Soviet Union during the war.

The FBI agents stayed in Green-
glass’ apartment for*?5% hours. In
searching ‘his rooms, they went
through a trunk of old letters and

‘

facts in the
Rosenberg case

papers. (One of the agents picked
up a sheath of mathematical notes,
brought them over to Greenglass
and said: ‘

“What’s this, some of your
atom bomb secrets?”

“No,” Greenglass replied.
“That’s just some of my brother-
in-law’s math notes from college.”

This, according to the govern-
ment testimony at the trial, is
how Julius Rosenberg’s name first
came into the case at all.

e

Greenglass retained as lawyer,
O. John Rogge, one-time assistant
U.S. attorney-general, a renegade
of the Progressive party and a
legal adviser to Tito’s regime.

SUPREME
CouRT

The same day Julius Rosenberg
was taken to the Justice Building
in Foley Square, and «after three
hours of questioning, learned that
“Dave (Greenglass) said you told
him to supply information for
Russia.”

Rosenberg asked to be allowed
to confront Greenglass to hear
these “foolish accusations” from
his Own lips, but his request was
ignored.

After a meeting with Rogge,

Ruth Greenglass stated:
.

“T thought the FBI was leading
to somebody other than my hus-
band; that they wanted somebody
much more important than he.”

Rogge outlined to her “the dif-
ferent courses that could be
taken.”

On July 6, 1951, Greenglass was
indicted’ on four charges, convic-
tion on any one of which would
bring the death penalty.

The day after the indictment,
Greenglass was ordered to be tak-
en from New Mexico to New York,
Rogge asked for a delay, and U.S.
attorney Saypol agreed, because
certain “discussions . . . have been
going on.”

In middle July, Ruth Greenglass,
after being interrogated by the
FBI, and having conferred with
Rogge, met with Saypol, members
of his staff, FBI agents and her
husband for three days in a row.

These conferences culminated in
her signing a statement in which
she implicated her sister and bro-
ther-in-law, in her husband’s espi-
onage work. =
€

‘On July 17, 1951, the FBI ar-
rested Julius Rosenberg on
charges of having recruited David
Greenglass into a Russian spy ring,
“early in 1945,”

Thus, in one month, an FBI
agent’s chance question about
some college math notes had been
turned by the Yankee witch-hunt-
ers, Saypol, Hoover and McGrath,
into a political sensation.

In police parlance, the “atomic
plot” involved was a “closed case”
before Rosenberg was brought into
it. All the accused participants had

. confessed. The chief one, Dr. Klaus

Fuchs, was already serving time
in England (still working for the
British government). His motive,
Fuchs said, was misdirected ideal-
ism. Three of the four alleged. ac-
complices in America had no poli-
tical idealism, only a cash motive;
the fourth, Harry Gold, was an
anti left-wing adventurer.

Thus, the U.S. government was
deprived of a political culprit;
and the case was on the point of
being quietly and unsensationally
concluded—when Julius Rosenberg
was suddenly brought into it.

By so doing, the U.S. govern-

‘ment was able to stress the fact

that in 1945 he had been discharg-
ed from government employ on
charges of being a Communist.
e .

Before the trial opened, the pro-
secutor announced that he would
call 118 witnesses, among them
top scientists like Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer, Dr. Harold (C. Urey,
General Leslie R. Groves, head of
the atom bomb project during the
war, and many others.

Of these 118 the prosecutor call-
ed only 20, among them none of
the above-named scientists.

One witness, Max Elitcher, ad-
mitted that he faced a five-year
prison sentence for perjury, that
he had been threatenéd by FBI
agents with prosecution for: “es-
pionage” and that he “hoped for
the best” as a result of his uncor-
roborated testimony.

He is free today, never having

been tried. >

“Star” witnesses were Ruth and
David Greenglass who’ were both
involved in the alleged conspiracy
but, as a result of their testimony,
Ruth was never brought to trial
and her husband got off with a

15-year sentence, which, with good ,

behaviour, will get him off ‘in

‘eight years.

The Greenglass’ uncorroborated
testimony was the only evidence
against the (Rosenbergs. It was
solely oral. No documents or other
proofs linking the Rosenbergs to
espionage’ were introduced.

Morton Sobel, a friend of the
Rosenbergs, was also committed
to trial. On the sole, uncorroborat-
ed testimony of the perjurer Elit-
cher. Sobel was sentenced to 80
years. There was no evidence
against him and no overt acts
were charged awaist him: But
imprisoning him added fuel to the
red-spy bonfire, being built up
around the Rosenbergs.

The Rosenberg and Sobel trial,
‘in a city whose population is one-
third Jewish, proceeded without a
single Jewish juror. ’

They were convicted. on unsub-
stantial and incredible evidence.

The prosecution prejudiced the
trial and inflamed the jury by
bringing in extraneous issues in
every phase of the trial.

Today, as the Rosenbergs sit in
the death-house at Sing Sing pri-
son, parted from their two child-
ren, their accuser Ruth Green-
glass, a self-labelled spy, is free
with her two children. Her hus-
band David, will be freed in eight
years.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 14, 1952 — PAGE 9

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