NY 100-1071 11 DETAILS: Cor~ ~n~ ~ -~ een raised by the Committee to pay the expenses and charges for preparing and fi1ing the printed record and brief & for JULIUS and T?TJ::~f, D(Th2T.~N ~Mnnff MORTON SOBELL in the Supreme Court. ______________________________________ meetings have been held throughout ~the country under the auspices of the Committee and the purpose has been to raise money for the defense of the ROSENBERGS and to rouse public sympathy for them. On March 12, 1952, the NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO SECURE JUSTICE IN THE ROSENBERG CASE held a meeting at the Pythian Hall, 135 West 70th Street, New York City, which was attended by approximately 800 to 1,000 people. Confidential Informant T-1, of unknown reliability, attended the above meeting, and stated that JOSEPH BRAININ was Chairman and opened the meeting with greetings "in the names of Justice BLACK, Justice DOUGLAS, EUGENE DEBBS and other great Americans to whom liberty and justice is not a meaningless phrase.!? BRAININ commented that the ROSENBERGS were convicted on trumped up evidence and that the main aim of their convict ion was to warn the American people that all holders of unorthodox Views are a menance to the citizens. He claimed that the conviction of the ROSENBERGS and their sentence to death is an "eternal shame on American justice." WILLIAM REUBEN, writer for the "National Guardian," a newspaper published weekly in New York City, next spoke and said that the ROSENBERGS and SOBELL were convicted not because of espionage but for "po1itical unorthodoxy." He claimed that the ROSENBERGS were "victims of the cold war, of the forces which are trying to plunge humanity into chaos and fascism." -2- .~~... . . .......-..-....- NY 100-107111 HELEN SOBELL, the wife of MORTON SOBELL, next addressed the~~~~~ing and stated that her husband and the ROSENBERGS are innocent and that they are Victims of "Red hysteria." She said that as soon as it was decided that the defendants were Communists the tria1 became a massacre. She appealed to the people, "Before we were helping you in the fight for a better world, now you must help us to free my husband and the ROSENBERGS." ALBERTKAHN made a collection speech in which he stated that the ROSENBERGS were being sacrificed on the altar of war. He stated, "We must stop the operation `Killer' in Korea by stopping. the operation `Killer' of the ROSENBERGS. They face death because they fought for us, now we must fight for them." I'Th\Ry..VAN KLE.iECH next spoke and stated that she made a thor%'4ghMhve'stigatj0n of the ROSENBERG case and that she came to the conclusion that "the ROSENBERGS were condemned to dcath not because they corir.'itted a crime but because they belonged to those clements who are fighti~~g for progress and a better world." BThSS...I.B.j~TCHELL next spoke and told the people to go back and tell the people in their neighborhoods what was said at the meeting 1,so they.could learn the truth about the R0S~iJBERG case and fight for their liVes and freedom." She read a telegram from ~JILLIA~I PATTERSON (National Executive Secretary of the Civil Riglits 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 IOSV~~'~BERG case.1, B. Z. GOLDBERG cor~ared the ROSENBERG case to the case of SACC() and VENZ~~TI and the DREYFUSS case. JIe stated, "The way this e.asc was conducted, the ROSi?:TBERCS could not get a fnir trial. \~Jhy is it that the Nazi and fascist spies were net given a death sentence in time of war and the ROSENBERGS were given a death sentence in time of peace? Is it because they are Jews??? .` .. -~. .. . .- ~~~- . -.- - ____________ .~-~~~-~~-~~-.~. . .~. . . .___. .~.~..~. ~~~~. I. L. NY 100-107111 ALBERT E. KAHN read a letter from the ~0SThNThERGS in which they &ta~cT~"w~ are innocent. We are an ordinary rnan and wife and it is inevitable that ordinary people will be grievously Persecuted by she history of the past few years. Like othcrs, ~e spoke for peace because we did not want our two little sons to live in the shadow of war and death. Like others, we spoke for the liberty of our fellow citizens because ~e believe and want our children to believe. in the fine democratic t.~aditions of our country. That is shy we are In the death house today - as a warning to all ordinary rncn and women like ourselves that there arc forces which hope to silence by deeth those who speak for peace." The informant adviscd that it was announced that more than $~,OoO had been collected at this rQecting. The above meeting was reported in the "Daily Worker,1, an East Coast Co~~iunist daily newspaper, on March l~, l952, on page one, column one. This article was writtcn by 1iAfl?Jjf RAYMOND. He claimed that 1,000 people attended to protest the conviction and death sentence.of the ROS~.F3ERGS and that 5Oo more remained on the sidowalk outside tI~e hall. He described it as the first large assemblage. on the case held under the auspices of the NATIONAL COf~4ITTEE TO SECURE tfUSTICE IN THE ROS~TBERG CASE. This meeting was also reported in local New York newspapers. The issuo of the "National Guardian" for Iiarch 12, 1952, makes a public plea for funds and states that the ~~App0L~l5 Court affirmation of the Verdict and ~c.ntenees in the ROS~T.3ERG case is one of the most shocking judicial acts in 9ur country's history." It announced that advertisements had been tai:en in the "St. Louis Post- Dispatch," "Chicago Daily News," " magazine, "New York Compass," "National Guardian," `1jewish Day,!r "Morning Freiheit," ?!Jewish Life," "Jowish Morning Journal," and othcr publications. It announced that they had printed 6o,ooO copies and distribut.od I45,OOO copies of WILLIM4 REJYBEN'5 p8mphl~t on the ROSENBERG case, and that thousands -~- .~~...~~~-