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          HELEN SOBELL, the wife of MORTON SOBELL, next
addressed the meeting 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 trial 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."

         ALBERT KAHN 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."

          MARY VAN KLEECH next spoke and stated that she
made a thorough investigation of the ROSENBERG case and
that she came to the conclusion that "the ROSENBERGS were
condemned to death not because they committed a crime
but because they belonged to those elements who are
fighting for progress and a better world."

          BESSIE MITCHELL 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 R0SENBERG case and fight for their lives and
freedom."  She read a telegram from WILLIAM PATTERSON
(National Executive Secretary of the Civil Rights Congress,
an organization listed by the Attorney General as coming
within the purview of Executive 0rder 9835) in which he
promised "the aid and cooperation of the Civil Rights
Congress in the fight for justice in the ROSENBERG case."

          B. Z. GOLDBERG compared the ROSENBERG case
to the case of SACCO and VANZETTI and the DREYFUSS case.
He stated, "The way this case was conducted, the ROSENBERGS
could not get a fair trial.  Why is it that the Nazi and
fascist spies were not 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?"



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