Word: alger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...
...time Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers stood up to each other in public last week, it was clear to everyone that they had known each other quite well in the mid-'30s. Those were the days when Hiss was publicly on the rise as a bright young New Dealer and Chambers was an undercover Communist agent. The point which the House Un-American Activities Committee wanted to demonstrate was that-as Chambers had testified-they had been Communists together...
Greater Responsibility. Up until the confrontation at the Commodore there had been nothing to choose between the accusations of Whittaker Chambers and the indignant denials of Alger Hiss. Now, on one pivotal question, Chambers had turned out to be dead right and Hiss to be dead wrong...
Morally, if not legally, it was up to Alger Hiss to prove that there ever was such a person as George Crosley. This week the committee would have Chambers and Hiss confront each other in public. But the committee had a greater responsibility than merely permitting the public to compare two stories. By all the means at its command, it had to find out-and tell the people-which story was true...
...Alger Hiss is Mrs. Hiss's second husband. As Priscilla Hobson, she was a TIME copy chief...