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atded and abetted and advised her husband.” —_ in dtecusstng: the letters received urgtng judtetal , @lenency Judge Kaufacn sat. as fellowes "In the many letters urging Judicial clemency, which have been subattted to this Cour the overwhelauing preponderance of which ore tn response tos sel, serving soltcttation by counsel fer the Rosenbergs, tt has frequently been urged that the sentences were unprecedented, being the ftre< auch sentences fmposed for peacetine esptonage. z hasten to earrect this misapprehenston and emphastze; therefor that the sentences were:not imposed for peacetine esptonage but for wartine espionage. ‘This Court would not have the power to impose these sentences for peacetine esptonage. The letters referred to, for the greater part, indicate that the writers hav hever read the record, are unfantlter with the facts in the case or have been ntsinforned concerning thea. Sone of these wertters a /-* even though they have not observed them on the witness stand, « baste essential to judging credibility. They nevertheless casun the role of 6 super-jurys attting tr absentia,” In discussing the sertousness of the crtue counttted by the Rosenbergs, Judge Koufuan actd, "Ze the act not perhaps nore treacherous and reprehenstble when our own fellow dmertcans decide te traffic in our deepest military secrets and to transfé the inforastion concerning these secrets to a foretgn power whil - 118 «