![]() ![]() The hero general of World War II remained unmoved. Now a final plea for clemency from Eisenhower was all that was left. That night, without bothering to inform Douglas, Chief Justice Fred Vinson called an extraordinary special session of the remaining justices to respond to their colleague's stay. An enraged Georgia congressman immediately called for Douglas' impeachment. embassies in Europe to hold back the shouting crowds Justice William Douglas granted the stay on his own citing a technical trial error, he called for the case to go back to district court. But two days later as extra guards were posted outside U.S. On June 15, the Supreme Court ended its term by refusing to grant a stay. ![]() The bookshelf notwithstanding, she and her husband were "absolutely not" Communists, she said. ![]() "I never heard anything like it, it's fantastic," she insisted. In her home whose library, reporters noted, included such volumes as "Stalin Must Have Peace" Ethel Rosenberg denied everything. The balding, bespectacled, 32-year-old Rosenberg was arrested on Jhe was, the FBI said, the man who had recruited Greenglass into the Soviet spy ring. in the Knickerbocker Village projects with his wife, Ethel, Greenglass' sister. Greenglass quickly gave up one more name his brother-in-law, Julius Rosenberg, an engineer who lived on Monroe St. ![]() contact and implicated one David Greenglass of New York City, a former Army sergeant who in 1945 had worked at the atomic facility in New Mexico. That spring, the FBI arrested one Harry Gold of Philadelphia, who admitted being Fuchs' U.S. Indeed, in early 1950, British agents arrested physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed he had passed material to Russia while working on the Manhattan Project in 19. Americans had been stunned when the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb of its own in 1949 atom spies must have stolen America's top secrets, many were certain. ![]()
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