Radosh/Rosenberg File

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Gregory Geboski wrote:
>All right, someone correct me if I'm wrong:
>
>The upshot of "The Rosenberg Files" is that:
>
>1) Based on the voluminous documentation presented in the book, 
>Ethel Rosenberg in all likelihood did not commit the crime for which 
>she was executed, and may not have even consciously spied for the 
>USSR;
>
>2) Based on the voluminous documentation presented in the book, 
>Julius Rosenberg in all likelihood did not commit a capital crime, 
>but he was a spy for the USSR;
>
>3) The arrest, trial, and execution of the Rosenbergs was justified 
>and was in fact a triumph of American justice, and people on the 
>Left who still criticize it are simply refusing to face reality, and 
>are hopeless dupes at best, if not outright apologists for treason.
>
>Now, the only way I see 1) and 2) implying 3) is by accepting an 
>unstated assumption something like the following: Julius deserved 
>death because he was a Soviet spy, and Ethel deserved death because 
>she loved a Soviet spy.
>
>OK, maybe I was just born to late and my coddled, TV- and 
>marijuana-addled brain is incapable of grasping the iron logic of 
>that Greatest Generation that brought us the Cold War--but I don't 
>get it.

"Treason" to the U.S. government was and is loyalty to humanity.

Yoshie