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"He's a statesman of a lost cause," said McCloskey. Within 50 years of America's independence, the Supreme Court had established the Constitution as the "supreme law of the land" and the federal courts as its highest interpreters. McCloskey cited the 1821 case of Cohens v. Virginia, in which...
Silly Fool. The Cohens and their Russian boss took their punishment with a certain professional pride. Master Spy Lonsdale even made an effort to shoulder all the guilt himself, insisting that the espionage equipment in the Ruislip house was his and had been put there without the Cohens' knowledge...
The next two defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens...
The police found New Zealand passports in the Krogers' effects. But soon fingerprints told a different story. From the FBI in Washington came evidence that Helen Kroger was, in fact, Lona Petka of Adams, Mass., and her husband was Morris Cohen, sometime of New York City, who had played...
The occasion was the climax of a series of grand occasions held to celebrate the 30Oth anniversary of the Jews' return to England. And it was hard, among the Jewish peers and their ladies, the Rothschilds and Montagus, Samuels and Cohens, to remember the sad past that made it...