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Rosenberg book a call to action

William Ruben. Public addresses den-
ouncing the travesty of jusice were made
by, among others, the late William L. Pat-
terson and this reviewer, as the Meeropols
mention.

Splendid refutations of the monstrous
brief for the prosecution by Radosh and
Milton have been published in scholarly
journals, as well: Professor Gerald Mar-
kowitz in Science & Society (Spring, 1954),
and Professor Edward Passen in New
York History (January, 1984).

Further, and very impressive, has been

the work by Walter and Miriam Schneir,
Invitation to an Inquest (1983).

But in a class by itself stands We Are
Your Sons. Robert and Michael Meeropol
call here for “a full scale governmental

Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton in their
best-selling Rosenberg File is proven, and
the fact that the government’s witnesses
consistently perjured themselves is irrefut-
ably documented. :

The frame-up and execution of the
Rosenbergs, as the imprisonment of
Communist Party leaders, the effort to jail
Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, the incarceration of
Alger Hiss, were all basic components of
the entire anti-labour, racist, Cold War
campaign to establish U.S. world hegem-
ony after World War II, deteriorating in
the 1950s into the fiasco known as
McCarthyism.

The staunchness of Ethel Rosenberg

and Julius Rosenberg was breathtaking.
The fire they withstood burned out all

WE ARE YOUR SONS. By Robert and
Michael Meeropol. University of Illinois
Press. Obtainable through the People’s
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Ten years ago the first edition of We
Are Your Sons, by Michael and Robert
Meeropol, was published. Now, in 1987,
the children of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
| (Robert an attorney, Michael a professor
| 0f economics) have issued a second edi-
tion. In most respects it is a new book.

This volume demonstrates — as Eric
Foner declares in his foreword — that
“by any reasonable standard of justice, the
Case against the Rosenbergs was weak,
and the death penalty an abomination.”
Practically everyone now admits, he cor-
Tectly adds, that “virtually no evidence

JULIUS
ROSENBERG

ETHEL
ROSENBERG

“confess”’; the visit to Ethel of her mother,
urging her daughter to perjure herself to
save her life; and Ethel’s merciful effort to
explain to her mother why she cannot
lie — “think of Julius, of our two boys’
future, of my honour, of the meaning for

Shortly before the trial.”

‘ .
‘that our parents were innocent.”

existed against Ethel Rosenberg,” that
crucial portions of the testimony of main
g0vernment witnesses “were fabricated

This new edition does “provide syste-
Matic arguments,” as the authors affirm,

The indecent behaviour of Judge Irving
Kaufman is demonstrated, the shameless
distortion of the data in the case by

selfishness, all fear, all weakness. They
stand forth, in this compelling account by
their splendid sons, as veritable working
class heroes in the dimension of a Julius
Fuchik and a George Dimitrov.

Many scenes in this book will never
leave the reader’s memory: the visit by

John V. Bennett, director of the Bureau of

Prisons, to the Rosenbergs separately,
offering them their lives if only they would

the country.” These scenes are among the
most dramatic episodes in humanity’s
very dramatic history.

Exposes of this monumental betrayal of
decency by President Eisenhower and
Judge Kaufman, down to the unspeakable
Roy Cohn, appeared earlier — by Virgi-
nia Gardner (1954), John Wexley (1955), :
Malcolm Sharp (1956), and contempo-
raneously in The National Guardian by

inquiry into the case while the still-living
participants can be forced to testify under
oath.” Surely there are decent members of
Congress who, when presented with the
data in this book, would be moved to press
for such an inquiry.

you act.

Read We Are Your Sons; it will make

— Herbert Aptheker
People’s Daily World

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