Evening star., 1953-01-11
Do Communists Seek Cemeny or Modom for Rosenbergs?
By WiIIium Hines

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By WiIIiom Hines :
In the death house at Sing Sing
Prison this week end man and
wife are waiting out what appear
likely to be their last days on
earth.
Meanwhile, outside Sing Sings
walls, from the gates of the White
House to the gates of the Kremlin,
a major propaganda campaign is
being waged. Ostensibly, the pur-
pose of the campaign is to save the
lives of Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg. Actually, its purpose is to
add fuel to the fire of the Hate
America" word-War the Soviet is
carrying on all over the world.
Page One in Worker
The Communist-operated Daily
Worker of New York has been Civ
ing top news play to the Rosen-
berg case for the last several days.
The tabloid appears to be the
principal bulletin board for advis-
ing the party faithful on new DEM
onStrationS in behalf of the con-
demned pair.
There is little reason to believe,
however, that the masters of the
Communist Party are interested in
saving the lives of the Rosenbergs.
The campaign fits too well into the
pattern of Ernst Thaelmann and
Sacco and Vanzetti to be ANYTHING
but a concerted effort to create
new pair of martyrs for propaganda
purposes.
The Save-the- -Rosenbergs cam
paign is dressed in all the idealistic
trappings appropriate to great
moral crusade. But it's basic pur-
pose is a cynical effort to create
hatred and diStrust of the Ameri-
can Government here and abroad.
The campaign plays on fear and
prejudice. 1t is no less snowy and
no more altruiStic than a Ku Klux
Klan cross-burning.
So dense q smoke screen has been
thrown up around the Rosenbergs
In the form Of advertisements,
speeches. pamphlets and parades
that many have forgotten the facts
Of the case.
The release about fortnight ago
OF DR.. Allan Num- May from q Brit
ish prison is as good place as any
to start In, review Of the Rosen-
berg case. May. the first atom spy
to be convicted and the first to be
released, was also the first land
mark on long trail that led to the
Rosenbergs.
Long Troll
When May was arrested in Britain
in 1946. notes in his possession led
investigators to Klaus Fuchs, Brit
ish physicist now serving time for
violating his country's official secrets
act. Fuchs confession in 1850 led
authorities to Harry Gold, Phila-
delphia biochemist now doing 80
years for serving as a spy ring
courier. Investigation of the Gold
case implicated David Greenglass, a
former sergeant at Los Alamos, and
Greenglass' wife. The excl pleaded
guilty and is under Is years SEN
tence. His wife was not prosecuted.
With the arrest of Greenglass, the
trail led to Julius Rosenberg and
his wife Ethel. Greenglass' sister,
and to Morton Sobell, a radar expert.
A Federal grand jury on August
16, 1850, handed up an indictment
against the Rosenbergs. Greenglass,
Sobell and the former Soviet vice
consul at New York, Anatoli A. Yak
ovlev.
The Low
The charge was violation of Sec
tion 794, Title 18, U. S. Code, the
pertinent parts of which read:
Whoever, with intent or reason
to believe that it is to be used to
the injury of the United States or
to the advantage of a foreign ma
ton, communicates, delivers, or
transmits, or attempts to commu-
nicate, deliver or transmit, to any
foreign government, or to any fac
ton or party or military or naval
force within a foreign country,
whether recognized or unrecognized
by the United States, or to any rep
resentative, officer, agent .employe,
subject or citizen thereof, either di-
rectly or indirectly, any document,
writing, code book, signal book,
sketch, photograph, Photographic
negative. blueprint. plan, map, model,
note, instrument, appliance. or in
formation relating to the national
defense, shall be imprisoned for not
more than 20 years.
Whoever violates (the above)
subsection =. in time of war shall
be punished by death or by impris-
onment for not more than 80 years.
\ X *
If two or more persons conspire
to violate this section, and one or