Taking on Commie spies and saboteurs, Cap and Bucky acted like they had never left. Relabeled as Captain America-Commie Fighter, the character regained his own series in early 1954. Captain America, the great S&K political hero of World War 2 had been cancelled after the war due to lack of interest, but with the rise of the anti-Commie fervor, Atlas brought back the red, white and blue hero in late 1953 in Young Men Comics #24, coincidentally timed to the Rosenberg execution. The Catholic Church began a series of strongly anti-communistic screeds and eventually the super-hero genre. Perhaps in response to the anti-Jewish backlash, or a feeling of shared Jewish guilt, some of the comic owners went out of their way to show their all-American feelings. “You sat the Rosenbergs in the electric chair for nothing”, he said. Brokhovich told The New York Times in an interview that development of the bomb had been a matter of trial and error. Brokhovich, the engineer who later became director of Chelyabinsk-40, the plutonium production reactor and extraction facility which the Soviet Union used to create its first bomb material, denied any involvement by the Rosenbergs. Though their guilt is not debatable, the depth of culpability is still debated. Magic, witch-hunts, autos-da-fé, sacrifices - we are here getting to the point: your country is sick with fear… you are afraid of the shadow of your own bomb.” On early Friday evening of June 19th they were executed- the only American civilians ever executed for espionage. By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Sartre would describe the trial as “a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. Peoples as disparate as the Pope, Albert Einstein, Picasso, and John-Paul Sartre lobbied President Eisenhower for leniency. The inequality of the sentences for the Rosenbergs, as compared to their fellow conspirators riled many. The Jewish community was torn between the love of country and their fear of retaliation from the anti-Semitic populace- always eager to blame all Jews for the crimes of one. Love kept them together-till the bitter end The stain of their treachery attached itself to all labor groups, and other Jewish intelligentsia who had dabbled with Communism in their youth. The only members of the group so sentenced due to their unwavering claims of innocence and unwillingness to finger others. Julius refused they were tried and sentenced to death. Edgar Hoover ordered his wife arrested–suspecting it would force him to confess and name names. When Julius wouldn’t finger anyone else, J. Julius and other mostly Jewish accomplices were arrested for spying in 1950. After the war they joined a network of similarly minded people and began slipping American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. When the fighting had ended, suddenly it was Communist Russia-earlier an ally, now seen as our biggest threat. They both graduated into the official Communist Party. The Communist youth groups were popular among the poor. Their method of escape was joining up at Communist Youth clubs, where they rallied with labor unions for the betterment of the workers. On June 19th 1953, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were put to death by way of electrocution thus ended one of the worst episodes of Jewish shame in U.S history.Īlas, there was no Harry Slonaker for Ethel and Julius. Joe McCarthy started a famous campaign to uncover Commies working undercover in the Govt. focused much attention on the country’s paranoia. Movies such as The Red Menace and I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. The Korean conflict and the Reds getting the bomb in 1949 due to Julius Rosenberg’s treachery, dominated the headlines. In a speech in 1947 the “good Jew” Bernard Baruch described the global situation as a “Cold War” spinning out of control. them! With the fall of Hitler, the Communists became the great Bogeyman. – Rand Hoppe ALL OR NOTHING AT ALLĪfter the war ended, the world once again descended into two great spheres East vs. We’re honored to be able to publish Stan Taylor’s Kirby biography here in the state he sent it to us, with only the slightest bit of editing. Ghosts In The Attic | Contents | Next – 14.
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