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     Łen raised by the Oonipiittee to pay the expenses and
charges for preparing and filing the printed record and
brief  for JULIUS and T?TJ::~f, D(Th2T.~N ~Mnnff T~GjPT()N ~(`P~T,T
in the Supreme Court. ______________________________________
meetings have been held bh1c)~Snc)uTh~~C country unuer
the auspices of the Committee and the purpose has been to
raise money for the defense of the 1?OS~i~R~G8 and to rouse
public sympathy for them.

          On March 12, l9~2, the NATIONAL C0MThIITT~ TO SECURE
JUSTICE IN THE R0S~j~B~F~ CAS~~ held a meeting at the
Pythian Hall, l3~ West 70th Street, New York City, which
was attended by approximately 8oe to 1,000 people.

          Confidential Informant T-l, of unknown reliability,
attended the above meeting, and stated that JOSEPH BRAININ
was Chairman and opened the meeting with greetings 1,jfl the
names of JI~stice BLACI(, Justice DOUGLAS, EUG~N~ DEBBS and
other great A~nericans to whom liberty and justice i$ not a
meaningless phrase."  B~AINiN commented that the R0SE~~ERGS
were convicted on trumped up evidence and that the main
aim of their conviction was to warn the ]`~erican people
that all holders of unorthodox Views are a nenance to thG
citizens.  He claimed that the conviction of the R0SLN3~RGS
and their sentence too death is an "eternal shame on American
justice."

          WILLIAIj ~EU3i~:N, writer for the "National
Guardian,'~ a newspaper published weekly in New York City,
next spoke and said that the FCSF~?BER~5 and S0B~LL were
convicted not because of espionage but f6r "political
unorthodoxy."  He claimed thpt the R0SENBrnRGS wore "victims
of the cold war, of the forces which are trying to plunge
humanity into chaos and fascism."



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           H~ThThN SCBELL, the I~ife of I~YkTCN SOB~ThL, next
addressed thi~~~~~ing &nd stated th&t her husband and the
~OS~~B~f?C5 are innocent and that they are victims of "Red
hysteria-"  She saij that as soon as it was decided that
the defendants were Cornr~~nists the trial became a massacre.
She appealed to the people, "Before We were helping you in
the fight for a better world, flow you must help us to free
my husband and the RO5~'.BL%~G5."

           ATh~~T~K~11N made Q collection speech in which
he st~~ed tti~~t the R~S~N~~RG5 were being ~acrific~ on
the altar of war.  He stated, "We must stop the operation
`Killer' in Korea by stepping- the operation `Killer' of the
RO5E~3~?-~G5.  They face doatli because they fought for U$,
flow we must fight for them."

           ITh\RY,VAN KL~ECH next spoke and stated that she
made a th0rb4ghMhvestigat~0~ of the RD5~NB~RG case and
that she came to the conclusion that "the ROSENBT'RGS were
condemned to death not because they coriritted & crime
but because they belonged to those elements who are
fighti~~g for progress and a better world."

           BThs5I.~.j~TCHF~~ next spoke and told the people
to go back and tell the people in their neighborhoods
what was said at the meeting "so they-could learn the truth
about the RO5~iJB~~G c&se and fight for their lives and
freedom."  She read a telegrnm from ~JILLIA~i PATT~RSoN
(National Executive 5ecretDry of the Civil Rights Congress,
an organization listed by the Attorney General as coming
within the purview of Executive 0rder 983$) in which he
promised "the aid and cooperation of the Civil Rights
Congress in the fight for justice in the I$Q5V~~'~BERG case."

           B. Z. GOr~DThEThG cor~ared the RO5ENB~RG case
to the case of SACC() and VThNZ~~TI and the DRI2YFu5S case.
Ile stated, "The way this case was conducted, the RoSi?:T3~RG5
could not get a fnir trial.  \~Jhy is it that the ~azi and
fascist spies were net given a death sentence in time of
war and the ~O5~NB~G5 wore given a death sentence in time
of peace?  Is it because they are Jews?"










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