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...death house at Sing Sing, Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel listened intently as the special news bulletin came in over the prison radio: President Eisenhower, after due deliberation, refused to commute their death sentences. The two convicted atom spies were guilty of a hideous crime against mankind, the President said, and they must atone for it with their lives; their crime of giving atomic and other secrets of the first magnitude to Russia "involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation, and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens...
...days after the President's decision was announced, the world was startled by another disclosure, from an unexpected source. Pope Pius XII, said L'Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican newspaper, had personally intervened in the Rosenberg case, had asked the President for clemency. In the labyrinthine phrases of L'Osservatore (which are all but unintelligible to most Americans), it appeared that the Pontiff had appealed directly to Eisenhower. "As he has mercifully done in other similar cases," said L'Osservatore, "so also in this one he has not failed to intervene insofar as it was permitted...
...Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
Since the day he was sworn in, Brownell has been working seven days and seven evenings a week and holding daily luncheon conferences with his staff. On a recent weekend, his homework was studying the case of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to determine whether he should recommend, clemency or reject their plea. The new man at Justice takes his job very seriously. Said he: "I feel strongly that the Department of Justice is a keystone of the Republic. If it fails, all that our youth has fought to preserve crumbles...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11--President Eisenhower refused today to spare the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, sentenced to death in the electric chair for conspiring to deliver atomic secrets to Russia...