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George A. L. Sarton, professor of History of Science, emeritus, said yesterday he never gave permission for use of his name in a pamphlet urging clemency for the Rosenbergs, atomic spies sentenced to death...
...pamphlet is currently being distributed throughout Greater Boston by the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case. Sarton's name was listed under the heading: "Notables who have spoken up for the Rosenbergs...
Contacted by phone yesterday, Sarton said, "I am opposed to capital punishment. I dislike the death penalty because it is final. If any error is made it cannot be corrected. I am generally opposed to capital punishment, not just in this case, but in any case--especially one of a political nature. It is society revenging itself...
...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...
...issue of your esteemed paper for 20 February last, Professor George Sarton expresses concern lest the investigations of the Congressional Committee on un-American Activities tend to stifle freedom of expression in our universities. In your issue of 27 February I read of the punishment of two undergraduates for the somewhat childish prank of burning a flery cross. It is evident that this was done as a joke, but, if it had been done seriously, the action of the authorities would seem to be such as to discourage freedom of speech and expression of opinion. In his revealing little book...