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Divorce Revealed. Emanuel H. (for Hirsch) Bloch, 52, Manhattan lawyer, chief counsel for the late Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (TIME, June 29); by Dina Pessin Bloch, fortyish; after eight years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Fyke Farmer, far less pyrotechnical than Marshall, stuck safely to his argument that the Rosenbergs were sentenced under the wrong law. Chief Rosenberg Counsel Manny Bloch was needled by the bench for his belated urging of Farmer's new point of law. "I now adopt it as my own." he said, but he wanted at least a month to prepare adequate argument...
Then came the turn of Bloch's co-counsel, New Yorker John Finerty, an old hand at celebrated cases (he argued for Sacco and Vanzetti, aided Tom Mooney). Finerty assailed the judgment against the Rosenbergs as "fraud" arranged by a "crooked" prosecution. Rebuked by the court, he retorted: "If you lift the stay [of the execution], then . . . God save the U.S. and this honorable court...
...Washington, a mixed crowd, cheering and sobbing, milled around the White House. The Rosenbergs' counsel, Emanuel Bloch, railed against the U.S. Government: "Much more barbaric than the Nazis . . . We are living under a military dictatorship garbed in civilian clothes . . . I don't know what animals I am dealing with, but I am convinced I am dealing with animals . . ." Later, at the Rosenbergs' funeral in New York, Bloch vented more bitterness: "Insanity, irrationality, barbarism and murder seem to be part of the feeling of those who rule us . . . I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door...
...President, anticipating that Harry Truman would be unable or unwilling to reach a decision in his last days as President. Dwight Eisenhower's answer all but closed the door of doom on the Rosenbergs. There were still a few desperate delaying actions to be made-and Lawyer Emanuel Bloch might succeed in winning more borrowed time-but the only real opportunity of escape lay with the Rosenbergs themselves. If they broke their long silence-if they confessed the secrets of their spy ring-then the President might consider a new appeal for clemency. But up to now the Rosenbergs...