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...ROSENBERG FILE by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 608 pages...
...years the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and their mom-and-pop spy ring has been told to the accompaniment of grinding axes. The Stalinist left propagandized the trial and execution of the couple as being a joint venture of fascists and anti-Semites. Never mind that the Soviet Union was busy shooting its own Jews. At the other extreme was FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover intoning "the crime of the century," as if Hitler's recent transgressions had been reduced to a string of drunken driving charges...
Crowding the middle were historians, legal scholars, journalists and even a novelist-E.L. Doctorow, whose Book of Daniel used fact as a springboard to fiction. In 1975 the Rosenbergs' sons, Robert and Michael Meeropol (the name of their adoptive parents), published a memoir of their frightening childhoods. The appearance of We Are Your Sons coincided with a campaign to clear the Rosenberg name and with the Meeropols' successful suit to examine previously closed Government files...
Ironically, the release of some 250,000 pages of documents have proved to be a boomerang. The files forge stronger links between Julius Rosenberg and Soviet agents. The case against Ethel for conspiracy to commit espionage is weaker, although she was almost certainly an accessory. The nature of the evidence against Rosenberg Friend and Co-Defendant Morton Sobell suggests that he might have fared better in court had he not suddenly rushed off to Mexico. The Rosenbergs clearly recruited Brother-in-Law David Greenglass. As one of the Government's star witnesses, Greenglass testified that while serving...
...Rosenberg File dispassionately supports its subjects' guilt and at the same time dramatically documents the ragged and unsavory way that justice was served. Historian Ronald Radosh and Writer Joyce Milton disclose an embarrassing trail of legal blundering, intimidation, judicial improprieties and political expedience. Emanuel Bloch, principal attorney for the Rosenbergs, repeatedly played into his opponents' hands, spoke when he should have remained silent, and said nothing when he should have argued. Said an outmaneuvered Bloch at one point: "For the purposes of going over the Government's witnesses' testimony which we think is fatal..." He meant...