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         Confidential Informant T-1, of unknown reliability,
advised that**************************************************
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******************************************************x 312,000
had been raised by the Committee to pay the expenses and
charges for preparing and filing the printed record and
briefs for JULIUS and ETHEL ROSENBERG and 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 conviction 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 "political
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."


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