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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1960. 1
CRIME AGAINST THE STATE By Edgar Lustgarten
No. 5: The Rosenbergs
REMEMBER one June evening in 1953 impatiently waiting to cross over
Regent Street.
In front of me, appearing almost to fill the roadway, marched an irregular but closely formed procession-youths in mackintoshes, girls in head scarves, middle-aged and elderly folk in heterogeneous garb-utter- ing the most mournful cries that I had ever heard.
Above their heats, thrust aloft by aching arms, improvised ban ners blazoned; "The Rosenberga Must Not Dic."
And that was in England; that was on the periphery of it; that was merely a dim reflection, a fatal echo, of the tremendous Encial and political upheaval, which the ovenberg couple → ptun nondescript young house wife. Ethel, pale nondescript younghusband Julius created throughout the entire United States during their slow progress towards the electric chair.
WAS THIS
A LEGAL
LYNCHING?
The sue was therefore sharp and quite narrowly confined. A head-on clash, Rosenbergs with the versus Grecnglasses, onus by settled law resting on the Court of the latter. As Appeals cald of the Greenglass
The actual charge was that of they were not agents, they were Were they- My Elsenhower conpiring to commit espionage not even Communists.
as it affirmed guilty of deliberately a very different thing,
Or need not involve violation of betraying a whole nation?
theirs as M Fran-Paul allegiance. Sartre wrote a legal lynching The story advanced to support that smeared a whole nation this accuration is an familia an any of our time. The Rosen- bergs, alleged the prosecution, were spies and agents in service of the Soviet Union out d of sheer devotion to the Com- sland." munist cause and creed.
with blood?
Medieval
.
Iron
Very well. Let us under
JULIUS ROSENBERG Nondescript young husband
its value by the just criterion of "reasonable doubt."
We ignore of courre-the war against "The Reds now rating to Korea; that might prompt irrational sympathy with the witness
ETHEL ROSENBERG Nondescript young housewife
Bloch pressingly invites him
to go on
"Well" Greenglass mys. "the man I spoke to answered me "That is noutron cource","
"Yes?"
"Well," Greerglass rays, as it We Iquore of course the it were the most natural necur fate he invokes for his own rence in the world, "we had a sister; that might prompt conversation, and he explained Irrational antipathy against him. to the how it was used,"
The test
We rely what Juries are the testimony: "I ( were disregard summoned for, is it not?-upon the conviction could not the aseptic test of common sense. The Best sharp blow to our
when he is. cross-examined by defender Bloch about his copa- the stand city to grasp, and to impart, the technicalities marking hours. We occult
fellow nuclear physics.
These two peculiar fentures of Greenglass's expose the apparent ability of the scienti fically untrained to cope with abstruse scientifle formulae, the apparent inability of the selenu- fically trained to fula minimum of security demands- would by themarives make +
In 1914 a providential oppor- such high judicial guidance. confidence In Greenglass comes detached observer pause.
10 the start from them
Greenglass is on
If is not easy, even after lapse of time, to approach the Rosen- berg care with an uncommitted
the tunity offered itself mund, disentangled power groups of the Cold War when Ethel Rosenberg's younger an urmy mechanle and from the abstract ethics of brother,
named Greenglas", was assigned has been for rome the atom bomb.
our to the secluded plant at Los are sitting, with I not easy to approach It Alamos in New Mexico, where members of the jury, closely with mengaged emotions, for, crack scientists were working on attentive to his tuen: harrulivě, even upon Ute
assumption of the atom bomb.
their guilt, they were treated with a medievaf harshness that
mpted clergy and statesmen A
everywhere to Intervene --un- avallingly--on their behalf.
But no attempt at answeringg the questions posed above can be of al value unless it is based
a clached and bin examination of the Rosenbergs's Il a trial.
Di
Sure fund has been from the startam almost universal beRe shat the charge aprinsi the Rosenbergs
treason. was
clash
How his sister Ethel — soven years older than himself-had always been a focal point or his affections. How his brother-in- law Julius four years older then himself-had always been an object of his hero-worship.
The Rosenbergs persuaded him
procure and furnish secret information: preeke location.
of Harw as a GI. accidentally nes of personnel, form
ex placed in a post of highest trust, security measures, type of periments, and-most important be had yielded-after much mis- bf all
sketch giving to their joint pressure.
cross-section
and 12-page explanation of the bomb used at Nagasaki in 1945. How he drew for them the
skelch, with its alphabeticul
“Did you ever get a degree in science?
"I did not," says Greenglars, "Did you ever get a degree In engineering?"
"id not," says Greenglass. "Did you ever take a course in calculus?"
"No."
"Differential calculus?" "No."
"ThermodyTales?”
"No."
"No."
"Atomic physics?"
"Quantum mechanics?" "No."
"Ifave
you read any basle works," asks Bloch, on any
of
☐ bare
But they acquire additional weight from a collatoral factor, affecting not only Greenglass but his wife,
Both on their own showing and by their own assertion - were the accompllers of those they now denounce.
Clemency
And that it is dangerous to Rel on such uncorroborated evidence-not least when hopes- of clemency or immunity rest on it has long been a firm maxim
of British and American law.
So, at any rate, Greenglass nymbols (A=light source, B= Not surprisingly as plases Hite testified in court, obtaining detonator, C=-high explosive "treannarble
"betraying partial confirmation
court. from his lens). How he interpreted for their country" mal even these wife, who were he and she them the formula of the lons's these subjects?"
were freely employed hal
trasters"
Bets,"
sometimes
his .ve. Leen
llow he expounded to in the means of detonation. Thic Rosenberg repudiated had word of it they
Detailed, plausible and, if ht nothing, they had got accepted, damning. It is, how- nothing, they were not spies, ever, for us, the jury, to assess
at vory stage in the proceedings memenger. by a proavuting team which the appellate court severely demned for its methods and its
tactics.
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I would not have been-
No, I would not have conviel- ed Julius and Ethel-nor, I cen- Jocture, would a typical Britkh jury directed by typical Bri- tich Judge in the typleni tem- perate atmosphere of a British I am not today-antisfied of "No." Greenglass is forced to their guilt. acknowledge, "I have not."
That does not more, how- ever, that I am callsfled of their A second sharp blow Lunds innocence.
iis target just es squarely on
Did they as Mr Elsenhower Bloch when
Inquiries how afirnied-betray a nation? Or Greenglass won the confidence, was theirs as Mr Sartre wrote or pierced the defences of legal lynching? qualled savan's plodged to
jabsolute resSÜTVE.
"Give an instance of how you picked up information," counsel
says,
"Well," Greenglars says, "oner I came into a room; there was a pices of material on the table; I picked it up, and
remarked,
It's an Interesting plece 理 material, and interestingly.
machined","
"Yes!"
The statements, odd as It may seem, are not mutually exclu sive. There is at least a lively possibility that both Mr Elsen- hower and M Sartre were right.
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