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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
class=EmailStyle16><font size=3 color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>I know this was why –<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
class=EmailStyle16><font size=3 color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>“</span></font></span><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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0pt'>>I’ve always wondered: why was it so important for so many on the left
to believe that the Rosenbergs really weren’t spies? After all, the accusation was
that they shared information with the USSR, during WWII, when it was an ally of
the US.</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>Julius R was apparently a spy. Ethel was framed and innocent. (Julius was
framed and guilty.) </span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><font size=2
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"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:0pt;
mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span></font><font size=2
color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>> This kind of issue has always seemed like the left at its sillier, </span></font><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:windowtext;letter-spacing:
0pt;mso-font-kerning:0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>At the time the issue was whether the CP was simply an fifth column of the
USSR at the height of the cold war, and implicitly whether the New Deal was
tainted by being run by Commies. (That was the big deal with Hiss even more
than the Rs.)</span></font><font size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;mso-color-alt:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 color="#7c0a89" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#7C0A89;letter-spacing:0pt;mso-font-kerning:
0pt'>jks </span></font><span class=EmailStyle16><font size=3 color="#7c0a89"
face="Arial Black"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'><span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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class=EmailStyle16><font size=3 color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>but that was a very long
time ago. By the sixties that was hardly and issue, and by the time Radish’s
book (I knew him when he was a leftist, and always called him Radish, saying
“Red outside, white inside.”) came out it ought to have been possible to say:
“So what if the Rosenbergs were spies?”<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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class=EmailStyle16><font size=3 color="#7c0a89" face="Arial Black"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black"'>I was intrigued also, by
Judis’ comments on Marx and other authors. He’s right, for example on William Julius
Wilson, unjustly maligned as a rightist. Lasch is more problematic, as his last
book seems to be a long paean to white blue-collar ressentiment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Christopher Rhoades D˙kema<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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