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...Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation of 2,500,000 Government employees. And it was Attorney General Tom Clark who boasted a fortnight ago that "under President Truman more topnotch Communists have been convicted than during our entire...
...afternoon recess was called, spectators in the Washington courtroom clung to their seats like grim death, eyes riveted on slim, black-haired Judith Coplon. After seven weeks of sitting by, as loud-mouthed little Defense Attorney Archie Palmer contested espionage charges against her, Judy was going to take the stand. She pushed back her chair at the defense table, walked a few feet, and knelt beside her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Coplon, a black-clad, sorrowing woman...
...Coplon bit her lips, began to twist a handkerchief. From across the room Archie Palmer rasped: "Try to smile, Mrs. Coplon." The old lady immediately burst into tears. Archie, who had a selection of throat lozenges lined up along the jury rail, picked out an orange mint and popped it contentedly into his mouth. Judy held her mother's hands. Judge and jury entered. Said Archie, over the sound of the old lady's sobbing...
Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...
...seven raucous weeks of defending black-haired, 27-year-old Judith Coplon against charges of espionage in a Washington court, loudmouthed little Attorney Archie Palmer had tried almost every lawyer's trick in the book. He almost cracked his vocal cords with protest when the Government introduced some of the contents of his client's purse-FBI "data slips" which the prosecution charged she had taken from her desk in the Justice Department to give to a Russian agent...