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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1953;

The ROSENBERG Dossier closes

But the Argument Will Go On...

By STANLEY BURCH

HERE is no dock in From his place beside Rosen- fly," and she followed it with the New York's Old Bai- berg-the accused sit in ordinary hit tune of the time, "Goodnight

chairs behind their counsel facing Irene." ley. No sumptuous the judge - "co-conspirator An unusual and uncowed robe, no wig, no ermine- David Greenglass walked to the couple to the end. and no

For over two years in their black cap-exalts witness seat beside the bench to the judge. He wears only admit everything and condemn separate cells they sat it out in his sister and his sister's the death house of Sing Sing simple black gown like a husband of running the spy through a

a marathon of appeals, schoolmaster's in his arm- plot, chair beside the Stars and Stripes.

If he gets crotchety, or bored or restless, no trappings conceal from the onlookers the spec Uncle of a normal American like themselves and their next-door neighbour yielding to human frailty.

It's a businesslike rather than o majestic way of justice.

Counselin their everyday suits-stride to and fro, throw

question

ut a witness, turn their back or wog a significant finger in the face. of the Jurors.

"Objection! That's incon- potent, irrelevant audi imma terlal

"Objection overruled.” "But, your Honour....

In a huddle

Time and time again the flow of evidence is thus broken by counsel on one side challenging his opponent's questions to wit- nesses.

'Sharpest eyes'

Tirelessly

petitions, motions for retrial and

a score of other legal devices l save them from the electric chair. Bloch Every time the Blocks failed."

A campaign for "elemency" world with the

Emanuel cross-examined the squat witness

A

Cry

to show that, he was lying in ran round, the order to save his wife." (Mrs Pope himself sendhig-a message Greenglass confessed her own to Washington.

of "anti-Semitism" active part in the conspiracy,

raised. But all the principal was but was not put on trial).

"You love her very dearly.

Bgures the trini had been don't you?" Bloch asked Daviti. Jews: not only the accused and

their lawyers, bu

but the judge "I do"

and the main witnesses and courset for the prosecution.

"Do you love her more than you love yourself?""I do."

Judge Kaufman (Intervening)? "That would be a difficult ques- tion for any of us to answer: Do we love somebody more than we love ourselves?"

in

Judge Kaufman went to his synagogue to pray before deeld- ing to pass the death sentence.

The theatrical thrills and sur- prises that had Invested the whole narrative of atonic con spiracy continued until the lust breathless net.

On the morning of March 29, 1051, the jury found all guilty, "A ringing answer of cur de- mocraile society to those who Two lawyers from far away would destroy it cried Pro who had had nothing to do with secutor Saypol, and he denounced the ense appeared unannounced the Rosenbergs as "perhaps the in Washington and sought out sharpest. secret eves

of our Suprerne Comt Justier William enemies."

Dougies, a big tousled man, day- dreaming of his mountaineering holiday.

A week later they came back

for sentence.

"at the then

Now and again ne of them "I consider your crime worse, seeks a consultation

murder," saltt Judge Bench" and all the lawyers Kaufman. His voice was strained Indie before the judge leaning and hoarse. on their elbows and mutterijų! to one another with only the agile official court reporter to hear and record what's going

on:

On one such colloquy during the Rosenberg trial, a lawyer asked for rather more than en hour and a half in which to have lunch and also to study some newly Introduced docu- ments, "You don't eat for an

hour," the judge retorted, while

"I believe your conduct has already caused the Communist

I feel that in aggression Koren,

Last hope gone

The court had just adjourned

| POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT. LANCASTER

"There must have been another outrage-that hole wasn't there when the Tate took delivery!!"

Why not let MARGARET

tour on her

on her own?

་

BERNARD. WICKSTEED

cables a suggestion from the royal-tour land

GWELO, Southern Rhodesin. She is a vivacious young WHY not let Princess woman and a personality in

W Margaret go of a solo her own right. When

colonial tour without any not playing second fiddle she other member of the Royal: can be a most entertaining Family?

conversationalist.

a

The Duchess of Kent was Her wit and her powera

tremendous success on of observation

her tour of the Far East. Why shouldn't Princess Mar- garet be too?

JOTTINGS from Italy

tional.

are

excep-

So far, on this 10-day royal tour of Rhodesta, the young Princess has done little but follow the Queen Mother uround.

with

She

shakes hands

people whose names She does not know, for they are Intro- duced

only to the Queen Mother front.

In

When guards of honour are inspected, which in several times a day, the Princess has to stond in the background talking to the mayor's wife. And if she does not keep smiling the

entire time adversely.

The

people comment

sho

and

climate of Southern Rhodesia In mid-winter has evidently taken the Princess by surprise, as it has the entire royal party, T must

They come here in crow:13, have been

to the the pilgrimage Cecil

Rhodes around midnight. I was mostly the poorer Gefmans, not grave of

the business or bureaureratic warr 進 heavy overcoat, awakened from a re- types, old men and women, during the service sat in it,ne freshing sleep by the in- schoolteachers and few if huddling for warmth,

youngsters,

She must know that overy- sistent Voice.

The old ones, who kne W the where she goes people are dis- world before Hitler, stare across cursing her, and yet she has to the lagoon into the Titing sunsets stand and be stored at for hours and at the wonderful skyline ofen end every day. the city as though bewildered by

or twice the Princess the beauty

struck out on her own. Is their escape. their There was the time-her

mother was keeping an ap

-alone-when tho

It seemed to fill the skies, us though it belonged to the Angel of the Last Judgment in a Tintoretto.

was

they

ONCE

ver has cont never

for the summer after rejecting

My wife, after making in- the Rosenberg, last appeal.

quiries, reported confiden- lost illusion. But now Douglas granted a I must pass such a sentence in that the courts should examine

stav et execution on the ground tinlly that it was not yet

It is quite dark, pointment Then when Resurrection Day. The and the lagoon dances with lights, Princess unexpectedly went to this diabolical conspiracy 10

they sit together in groups of the ear pork at Government God-fearg nation the new legal submission by the Voice, she explained. destroy

in Italian cafe- House, Salsbury, with her Indy- forly or aft Rosenbergs freelance champions which will demonstrate with se

that of a lady of political gardens, and sing very quictly for in-waiting, climbed into one of been unlawfully

named Isabel hours songs of the old times, the official cars, and drove off. finality that this nation's security that they ha

sentenced under the wrong Act. distinction must remain inviolate....

know The CLD, Linden Tree."

nothing Then he drove off for the Far D'Este, who was addressing like the

they found tho It is like hearing the keening about it until West.

the islanders on behalf of

car had gone. of a lost generation. the Christian Democrat

Another ittle liking for Ger-! have party (the Prime Minis- mans, But this seems part of ter's) in the elections. She the tragle destiny of Europe, was using the particularly the hours of singing in the penetrating loudspeakers the

TRUE BLUE Italians like.

Uncowed couple

You

an-

An angry Attorney-General "I have deliberated fer hours, demanded the entire

court, be The Every nerve, urgently summoned back. the jurors wondered what lofty days and nights. legal point was being discussed. every abre of my body has been Chief Justice called a session for "I don't. 1 eat for ten minutes, taxed. I have searched my con- the next day-Friday, when the have a sandwich and coffee") science to find some reason for Rosenbergs were due to die at

the A Judge

40 years old, mercy. It is not in my power, 11

fourteenth p.m. on only

But Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to niversary of their wedding, tried and sentenced, Julius aud

Reaching his Ethel Rosefibers for conspiracy forgive you. Only the Lord can

wayside resting to deliver War secrets to Russia, and mercy for what you have place for the night, Justice

His Honour Irving Kaufman, done.

Douglas parked his car, switched dark, full-faced and sombre, was

are hereby sentenced on the radio, heard the news and

Washington. new back to the youngest of all New York's to the punishment of death." Federal Justices and it was his Greenglass, for turning State Six of the nine black-robed reversed his decision. Mrs first big case,

witness, escaped with 15 years'

men

sent a At the

Imprisonment.

written plea Rosenberg Attorney Irving Saypal (Public That afternoon, singing broke for mercy to the man in whose From hands the last lonely choice lay. Prosecutor, we'd call him) was out in the cells below. Roy Con

Cohn, a bright stedgling Julis came the battle hymn of President Eisenhower refused a Government attorney on whom the Republie: "Mine eyes have rep

reprieve.

It was the end of the long and Joseph McCarthy's eyes had not seen the Glory of the Coming

of the Lord-He is trampling bitter road for the Rosenbergs. vet fallen,

For Julius Rosenberg: Emanuel out

the But their story, their fate, their the vintage where Bloch, whose father, Alexander grapes of wrath are stored...."

.." long, silent wait for death w Bloch, represented Ethel Rosen-One Fine Day"-Ethei-Rosen--be matter for controversy as-long

berg sang, from "Madam Bulter- as legal ammals fast.

berd.

elbow.

of

District

SUDDENLY THEY ARE

NO LONGER FUNNY

Line the

clark.

i

time the Princess

was louring the Uganda pavl-- en at the centenary exhibition, In Bulawayo wheri she saw some tribal drums. While her mother and the rest of the party. went ahead she lingered behind

Sho and rejoined schoolgirl party liko

eul doing something

topped at once

the

ought

wrong.

Sleepily, I recalled THE Adriatic on a really hot and started playing the drums, day is unbelievable in colour Baldwin's famous remark and texture. It looks liko one about Ernest Brown, "Why blinding sapphire, filling half the

But, presently, she beat them doesn't he

tele- world.

so loudly that everyone turned One of the few Britons here, round and looked at her. One phone?"

shading his eyes against this it was a resonantly rea- splendour, said to his companion, sonable voice, filling the "Do you know, old boy, what this Italian night. It was rather reminds me of?-Dymchurch."

"No, no. Not at all," sald the like Lady Violet's in its

other. "It's the perfect image One of the few times I have noileed hor really enjoying herself was when a band of quality-though I hasten to of Westgate add I have never heard Lady So we keep the flag flying.

Afrleans from Mozambiquo Violet addressing an open-

BOOK NOTE

played to the royal party on air political rally after mid- ɛ old man who sold books primitive xylophones. night. Our-climate-forbids. -had-no-English-ones-on-his-The rhythm was terrife, and

the Prince "Wall!" he said, and you could see barrow. NIGHT BIRDS

furtively unlocked a box at the joining In First a royal too NIGHT or so later I was back. Ah! we said to ourselves. started to tap, then a royal foot buck and aroused by the most melll- Will "Ludy Chatterley's Lover had begun to move

forth until, anally, she joined fluous Italian tenor I have heard now pop out?

Not at all. The old man thoroughly that the bouquet of primitive rhythm so since Cigli last sang in "Madaine Butterfly.

duced a well-kept Tauchniiz

Beave bronk's gladioli ehe kad in her It was a Communist candidate, edition of Lord

was shaking too.

Yes, she has vivacity and personality.

But, as far as I have seen on this zur the doom not seem to be tendonu le as much thQuoch Mother, **

Soghu not Iet Princess alone in a Margget tour

tone the swelling climaxce and Washington. RENE MacCOLL

THEY are both 26. They

are both eager in their pinpoints two young different ways to do a good men who have be-

come VIPs

job for their increasingly formidable master, Senator Joseph (Burn the Books) McCarthy, of Wisconsin, and they are bath notably thick skinned;

Law School of Columbia University. New York.

schools and then to the

He joined the Department of Justice in 1948, and did some

ferreting in drug cases. He also played a minor role in the prosecution of Ethel and Julius They have been tipped off Rosenberg. One of the many that Cohn and Schine are on men who have

had recently

by to be questioned their trails. Fantastle? Maybe occasion -but, unfortunately, that's the Cohn says reminiscently: way It 15.

bounces around the room like tall movie gangster who suspects

and I feel that people listened to book on "Success" together will that hour and hald's speech the late Elinor Clyn's "Mon and for the sheer pleasure of the Mald."

Arr survehow and where books

Lord Elverk rook the delicate pp passages.

Apart from that, it was like book as published thirty yed anding Harry Pollitt orating in ogo. the middle of the night in the Central Gardens at Bournemouth. foreign visitor, I have slept through monarchists, neo- Fuscists, Liberals, who were not like Mr Fothergill, and those four

of bewildering kinds

As

Socialists that reminded me of Mr Morrison, Mr Bevan and the

That does not seem to mal-

Dave Schine is ter, because Roy Cohn (black-

wavy-haired fellow of in that behind the curtains there, struggling in the market Juled, nervous, excitable), peccable appearance, who went lies in wait a rival toughie chlef counsel to McCarthy's to Impeccable schools (the Messrs C. and S. are not to Senate Committee on Govent equivalent of Britain's Win- much Junior counsel ta Mc- ment Operations--that's the one chester).

WHAT I have marvelled ali

place together.

SILENT ONES Carthy as fellow members of W most has been the dead who carries in eternal flame He not only looks like every an inquisition tribunal-well-silence in which the crowd on

to louch off Д ready

Good icen-aged' girl's idea of an or- groomed playbays, you might the streets has latened to every burnable book and David chestra leader but he has, in think, who have turned up, at

in turn. No Schine (chief consultant to the fact, written and had publish- fancy-dress ball thinly disguised spellbinder

heckling. No Jeering, No committee) are today, by some ed a number of popular songs, s

the

original Torquemada cheering, except for the amali curlous fluke of contemporary One of these was called "Please twins.

band of the faithful who history, very important people say yes or it's goodbye," and

Assurance

clustered protectively Ground here in America.

ench candidate.

Men quail

You recall this team

you

its first verse, goes:-

"Haven't joun good solu- THIS is the sobering pay-off:

tion,

the

here in the United Stales

not

funny

arc any

There is only one way out, of 1953 Cohn and Schine of My heart to in

a sad confusion, distinctly Cohn and Schine, don't And I've

got to end this more. you? You remember how

doubt;

These 20-year-olds pointing smlied.

slightly last So I'm asking you to tell me

accusing Anger In the when spring

that. you read

how things stand,

shadow of McCarthy's own ac- they were flashing Europe, investigating American embassies and libraries and ending in London with an on- the-run chit-chat with the BBC7

bro

powers

In

across A simple yes or no is all that cusing finger are cause for sor-

I demand."

'He bounces'

un-

Just an Intent listening silences that whs enigmalle. How phlegmatic a people! What price the Latin temperamenti

The brooding Berlousness of this election would disturb me were 1 at home.

OUT OF SEASON LIKE places when they are out of the season, before the

rich, the photogenic and the nolsy turn up. Brighton," for example, is one of Britain's most attractive towns. when hardly anybody is there.

row and-too often-ruin.

Their self-assurance is beatable. After they had spent none-too-simple "yes" or a few scattered hours here and "no" is, needless to say, what there "Investigung" the work- You may be Laken aback to the desk-pounding team of ings of America's gigantic icorn that, for from having Cohn and Schine have been foreign service, and had talked Schine demanding with growing fre- for a fow minutes to tho faded away, Cohn and

"The Lido is delightfully out of today

American Ambassador to Bri- this quency this past six months

fashion. It will be weeks before strangely subdued land of Schine is a ton of the im-tain, Mr Winthrop Aldrich, they

the publicised ladles of the America.

mensely rich owner of one of announced:

For a man

who

"International set" appear, the Mon quali at the thought that. America's biggest hotel chairs, has been here only two months

"luxury" beaches are now empty, rostering Roy and dandy David Schine Jun. owns a Cadillac ho seems to have grasped the

and the chandeliers in the big may wish to ask them ques, convertible, with a radio-tele problems very well. tions (with the benefit of the phone installation, and. an That sort of self-confidence hotels are still swathed in dust-

covering. TV cameras).

alleged plano which has a can only spring from an up-

CHORALE includes Responsible officials of Ameri- built-in organ and gramophone bringing

which with record-changer lurking inside, record-changer camouflaged by Y full of voices. Chiefly ca's Government--men, hitherto great prestige have it.

a piano. written out their resignations, Who is Cohn? Well, Cohn le You do not need " to know | German.-) and are now only waiting for, the son of a・・ judge on "New" how to play the piano - only "The old fierce'yearning of the the appropriate moment to send York's Supreme Court of Ap- how to press a button and look! Germans for Venice

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