Farrell expresses his "profound dismay" at a letter BR wrote to the Manchester Guardian on the Rosenberg case: "While we do not question your right to reach even what we consider a totally mistaken conclusion on the guilt of Morton Sobell and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, we do most gravely question the propriety of any friend of cultural freedom, and in particular an officer of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization of which we are an affiliate, in making the false and irresponsible statements about the process of justice in the United States quoted from or attributed to you in this report."