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     en 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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