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and have tn no way been denied or infringed. These petittona were filed twenty months after the verdict of guilty was returned by the jury,. followtng a trtal which petitioners! attorneys stated, ‘had been conducted. . ertih that dignity and that decorum that besite an mertean trial’ and that defense counsel had been afforded "every privilege that a lawyer should expect ina criminal case.?* With regard to the pretrial publtcity, Judge Ryan reasoned as follows, "A reading of the newspaper articles subattted by the petittoners reveala nothing of an unusual or infloanatory character. The articles seen but a fatr response to a legttinate public interest in a natter of vital concern to Gll. « »« The accounts of the arresta and subsequent indictmenta of petitioners tended to allay a public anrtety and to give assurance that those charged with the protection of vital tnformation were alert and diligent in the performance eof thetr obltgattone,” | In further discussing thta point, Judge Byan atated: . "The trial began on March 6, 1951, shortly less than seven months aster the arrest of Sobell, the last defendant tobe - taken tnto custody. Any publte prejudtece whtch might be ascribed to nevipaper publtctty incident to the arrest of these defendants had long since been dissipated among the populace of _— af