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Here, concludes Brogan, "is the basic reason why the book is bad, why [Jowitt] is continually being amazed or shocked at things that, however deplorable, are not, in this age, in the least shocking, and about which, in the age of Nunn May, Klaus Fuchs, the Canadian spy ring and the rest, there is no point in being shocked...
...Molecule. At 23, Albert did a brilliant paper on something called "non-typical Wurmer-Klaus reactions" and was invited to join a chemistry-research department at Oxford. There he went to work for F. R. Dibdin, a revered character who wandered around in a cloud of pipesmoke and portentous cliches, occasionally avoiding difficult questions by sidling off to the lavatory. Scientist Albert told his diary: "Dr. Dibdin ... is a wonderfully inspired leader ... He will give Woods the discipline he needs...
Years later, British and U.S. counterespionage agents ran down the now familiar roster of traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Only then did the full significance of the atomic spy ring dawn on the free world. All this while, in Britain's Wakefield prison, Allan Nunn May had proved an exemplary prisoner, becoming a trusty and working as a librarian, and earning all the remission allowed by British law for good behavior. This week, after serving two-thirds of his time (six years eight months), Atomic Physicist Allan Nunn May was released, his debt...
...Communists the world over last week had an issue they rode hard. Never before has a U.S. civilian court in peacetime imposed a death sentence for espionage, but then, never before has the peacetime U.S. had its security so jeopardized by one ring of spies (the Rosenbergs, Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs), whose work probably shortened by years the Russians' efforts to build their own Abomb...
...cited the seeming disparity between the death sentence given the Rosenbergs and the mere jail sentence dealt Klaus Fuchs, British physicist who confessed to what Sarton termed "worse crimes...