Friday, May 2, 1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH
The Suburban Community
Pound, Sobell Cases Offer
Two Viewpoints on Treason
By the Oak-Woodser
Last week, the press was
filled with the news that Ezra
Pound, whose controversial poe-
try apparently is regarded more
highly than his indictment for
treason against the United
States, was released from 12
years in a mental institution.
Pound is the notorious anti-
Semite. who during World War
II, broadcast pro-Fascist and
anti-American statements from
Italy. Captured by American
troops at the close of the war,
Pound was to have faced trea-
son charges. except for his con-
finement in a mental institu-
tion.
There are many, including
the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
cy's Milton Friedman, who
question Pound's mental lapses
as any more than eccentricities,
and now, after 12 years of good
living here, he is free to return
with his wife to Italy, never
having actually been tried for
his mouthings against his own
country.
At the same time as the news
about Pound was released,
there was a visitor in this com-
munity. Her name—Helen So-
bell, the wife of convicted atom
spy Morton Sobell, who, after
spending five years at Alcatraz,
is now serving the remainder
of his 30-year prison term at
the Atlanta Federal Peniten-
tiary, in Georgia.
For nearly eight years now
Mrs. Sobell has sought the
release of her husband, or at
least a retrial in a more ra-
tional America than existed
when her husband was sen-
tenced and Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg given the death
penalty during the heyday of
McCarthyism.
During her travels over the
past eight years, Mrs. Sobell
has been spreading information,
including facts of the trial that
are little known or overlooked,
and at the same time collect-
ing signatures of people urging
a redress of grievances against
her husband.
She has collected a great
many names, many of them
prominent people whom she has
convinced—not necessarily that
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her husband is innocent (al-
though she insists he is), but
who believe that the sentence
imposed was too harsh, that it
was the result of the hysteria
of the times.
Among them is the Rev.
Henry Hitt Crane, at whose
Central Methodist Church here
Mrs. Sobell spoke. There are
dozens of rabbis, including Dr.
Emanuel Gamoran, Dr. Arthur
J. Lelyveld, Rabbi Eugene J.
Lipman, Rabbi Emanuel Rack-
man and Rabbi Jacob J. Wein-
stein, all prominently known
throughout the American Jew-
ish community.
An ardent supporter is Har-
old Urey, Nobel Prize-winning
physicist, who not only is con-
vinced of Sobell's innocence but
believes also that the Rosen-
bergs were not guilty.
Another supporter is Mal-
colm P. Sharp; professor of law
at the University of Chicago,
who wrote a book, "Was Jus-
tice Done?", in which, step by
step, he defends Sobell and the
Rosenbergs against prosecution
testimony.
It should be noted, even at
this late date, that Morton
Sobell never once changed his
plea of innocent, that the
only actual witness against
him was an admitted per-
jurer, that a trip to Mexico
that he and his: family took
was used to help determine
his guilt.
Time, too, has changed the
significance of the case. When
sentenced, Sobell and the Ro-
senbergs were excoriated for
giving secrets to the Russians
which led to their making of
the A-Bombs.
The launching of the Russian
Sputniks have caused new
thinking on the Sobell convic-
tion, also.. If, as is charged,
secrets were given to the Soviet
that enabled them to make the
A-Bomb, how is it that we our-
selves are now trying to catch
up to Russia's scientific ad-
vancements?
And it must be remembered
that it was because of atomic
spying more specifically than
simple treason that Sobell was
sentenced to so long a term.
Perhaps a review of the case
should be made, so that in the
light of events that have oc-
curred, we may at least assure
ourselves that justice was done.
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Tickets Left for
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Beth Shalom Youth Group
to Lead Sabbath Services
Beth Shalom Women
Set Mothers' Banquet
The Beth Shalom Youth
Group will conduct sabbath
eve services at 8:30 p.m., to-
day, in the sanctuary, at 14601
W. Lincoln. Rabbi Mordecai S.
Halpern will preach the ser-
mon on "Israel — Ten Years
of Achievement."
An oneg shabbat will follow,
with Agnes Hoffman in charge
of hospitality. At 9 a.m. serv-
ices Saturday, the Bar Mitzvah
of Bruce Topy will be ob-
served.
The first mother and daugh-
ter banquet of the Beth Shalom
Sisterhood will be held at 6
p.m., Thursday, in the syna-
gogue, 14601 W. Lincoln, Oak
Park.
The program will replace the
traditional installation lun-
cheon, at which new officers
were inducted, since Sisterhood
leaders will now be installed
at a regular Friday evening
service of the congregation.
Following dinner, there will
be entertainment highlighted
by Cantor Ruben Erlbaum,
who will sing a medley of
songs, and a dance presentation
by the Cornell Dance Studios.
Mrs. Joseph Cohen, chair-
man, invites members to bring
their mothers and daughters.
Tickets are available from Mrs.
Martin Kopel,' ticket chairman,
LI 5-9038; Mrs. Sidney
Schwartz, LI 6-5132; or Mrs.
Carl Schey, LI 3-0323.
The 1,800 members of South
Oakland County Chapter of
Hadassah this week were busy
selling most of the remaining
tickets for "Flaming Youth,"
the sixth annual production
which will be staged Saturday
and Sunday nights at the Ford
Auditorium.
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lem. Proceeds from last year's
show bought a four-bed isola-
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0-w Young Israel
Slates Election Meeting
The annual election meeting
of Young Israel Center of Oak-
Woods will be held at 8:30
p.m., Tuesday, in the syna-
gogue, announces Ernest Cit-
ron, chairman of the board.
In addition to the officers,
there will be five members
chosen for three-year terms on
the board, and one for a two-
year term.
Sabbath services this week-
end will be at 7:25 p.m., to-
Oak Park Mizrachi
day, and at 9 a.m., Saturday.
Rabbi Yaakov I. Homnick will
to Hear Mrs. Plesser
Mrs. Maurice Plesser, na- preach on "Universal Holiness."
tional JNF chairman of the The Bar Mitzvah of Paul Math
Mizrachi Women's Organization will be observed.
of America, will be guest
speaker at a meeting of Oak Emanu-El Services to Honor
Park Chapter of Mizrachi Wo- Israel's 10th Anniversary
In celebration of Israel's 10th
men, at 8:30 p.m., Monday,
in the home of Mrs. Louis anniversary, Rabbi Milton Ro-
Konheim, 24291 Eastwood, Oak senbaum will speak on "Israel's
Next. 10 Years" at sabbath serv-
Park.
Another feature of the eve- ices of Temple Emanu-El
ning will be nomination and planned for 8:15 p.m., today in
election of new officers. A so- the sanctuary, 14450 W. 10 Mile,
Oak Park.
cial hour will follow.
Participants will include Mr.
All women in the community
and Mrs. Jacob Kutchai, Mr.
are invited to attend.
and Mrs. Walter Stark and
Richard Braun. A movie de-
Pontiac Temple Beth Jacob picting
Israel's achievements
Slates Sisterhood Sabbath will be shown at the oneg shab-
Sabbath services of Temple bat following services.
Beth Jacob, Pontiac, at 8:30
p.m., today have been desig-
More than 2,000 men and
nated Sisterhood Sabbath, and women filled the Grand Ball-
will feature the participation room of Palmer House, Chi-
of members of the group.
cago, Sunday, to honor WIL-
A symposium on "Does Re- LIAM L. McFETRIDGE, vice
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will take place, with emphasis president of the Building
on the program of the fourth Service Employees Interna-
biennial convention of the tional Union, at a dinner which
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