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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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