[ErnBatavia]

He always expressed regret that the Rosenbergs had been executed

Damn! I was thinking this was a helluva guy...right up until this last paragraph.....oh well.

[VOA]

He always expressed regret that the Rosenbergs had been executed; there was little evidence
that Ethel Rosenberg had done anything and he felt that they had at least believed in what they did.

At the least, he had to say this (even if he didn't believe it).
Otherwise he'd probably been ousted from the University of Wisconsin Alumni Association.

(I have a sister-in-law with a bachelors, masters, and PhD. in the sciences
from U. Wisconsin-Madison. My brother woke her from her liberal utopian haze...she now
can hardly believe she went to school at that democratic-socialist hive.)