Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-06-20

mo" Miss Coplon said, i had
it to read on the train"
Mr.. Palmer asked the witness
what she and Gubitchey talked
about during their clandestine
meetings which began after he
met her in the Museum OF Mod
ern Art In New York by means Of
a few casual remarks about art.
/ Discussed Literature.
I'VE had some very long talks
on literature. she said. land I
was surprised to find he was an
authority on Milton. Shakespeare
and Shelley"
Milton was the great English
poet who was blind and wrote
Paradise Lost" Mr.. Palmer
began.
I'VE all know that" said Judge
Albert L. Reeves. Lets proceed"
Your honor knows it. and !
know 1t. but not everybody knows
it," said the unabashed defense
lawyer. Now Shelley was the
great English poet who wrote
about love. wasn't hep"
Miss Coplon smiled and softly
answered. "He also wrote about
many other things"
Before Mr.. Palmer could ques-
ton the defendant. who graduated
cum laude from Barnard College.
about Shakespeare. Chief Prose-
cutor John M. Kelley. jr., protested
that the direct examination was
going far afield.
Mr.. Palmer then returned to
Miss Coplon's January IA rem
devious with Gubitchev in up
town Washington Heights in New
York-the first meeting to which
she was trailed by FBI agents.
Miss Coplin repeated 1t was on
this occasion Gubitchev told her
he was married and she beat at
him with her fists and a news
paper and she furiously told him
their romance was over.
They rode together. she related,
on subway from 190th street to
125th street, where Gubitchev left
her. AS he stepped from the sub
way car he put both his hands
to his head, as though In pain,
after she had told him she did
mot want to see him again.
SCOTS at Foley Testimony.
Throughout, Miss Coplon scofied
at the testimony given by Mr..
Foley, her former boss.
Contrary to what Mr.. Foley
said" she testified. "he gave me
specific instructions to examine
FBI internal security reports.
Otherwise, I'd not have had the
audacity to mark them for my
secretary to copy and then keep
them In my desk where any one
could see them"
Miss Coplon asserted that her
treatment by Mr.. Foley in the
final months of her employment
at the Justice Department was
almost sadistic." Although she
had been under surveillance since
the beginning of the year, she was
not aware of this, Miss Coplon
testified. and was mystified by the
curt manner in which her superior
ordered her removed from assign
ments dealing with internal Sc
curity. Her last assignment In this
/ field, she said, was on the analysis
LOT Communist and left-wing AZ
fairs detailed in FBI reports.
Couldn't Understand It."
."I couldn't understand why I.
who had been a loyal worker"
she testified, twas being shunted
off Just like closing a door,"
MIR. Palmer shifted back to the
defendants relations with GU
bitchev and asked If she had
kept her mother informed about
the development Of their ro-
nance. She said that she had
told her mother she was meeting
a man from the United Nations
but did not tell her when the ro-
nance ended.
81 didn't want to go into details
about him being a married man.
she explained. Mr.. Palmer
launched into one Of his oratorical
questions.
Judy" he said. "in connection
with your appearance here and
, your looks and everything that
goes with it. you have been UNI
der a terrible strain and you have
been accused Of the foulest OF
crimes.
Lives there a man with SOU.
SO dead who to himself has never
said -"
1T object" Mr.. Kelley shouted.
"How have you been treated by
your 1FlGIlUS dk1o LCASAAS01S 49, SS>~
nection with the heinous crime OF
treason-a crime worse than muir
der?" Mr.. Palmer continued.
How have you been treated by
the press?"
| When Mr.. Kelley renewed his
objection, Judge Reeves told Mr..
Palmer to drop that line OF ques-
tioning.
The defense attorney then asked
Miss Coplon to explain q mystify-
ing encounter with Gnbitchev on
upper Broadway on February Ii.
when both were observed walking
lin the same direction but on oppo-
site sides Of the street. FBI agents
testified that Miss Coplon finally
crossed the street diagonally and
started walking in front Of GU
lbitchev. He came abreast Of her
and she opened her purse and APP
Ipeared to hand him something.
Government witness said. Then
they parted.