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...That Richard." So convincingly did Alger Hiss deny Whittaker Chambers' charges, that the House Un-American Activities Committee was about to call off the investigation and run for cover. But Committee Member Nixon detected ominous hedging in Hiss's testimony. "I was a lawyer and I knew he was a lawyer." Nixon recalls. "I felt [he] was just too slick ... If Hiss was lying, he was lying in such a way as to avoid perjury, with a very careful use of phrasing ... It was very possibly an act, it seemed...
...Democratic crack was: "The country can probably survive it as long as Ike lives out his term, but the thought of Nixon being one heartbeat from the Presidency is terrifying." Much of the anti-Nixon feeling stemmed, consciously or unconsciously, from the resentment of those who were wrong about Alger Hiss when Nixon was right...
December: The holiday season will begin as usual, with Macy's Christmas parade, and a denial of parole to Alger Hiss. Then animositics will melt in the glow of holiday good feeling, and newsmen will be forced to dust off their crystal balls once again...
...their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...
...digging deeper, they bring up Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White, he can counter with James B. Conant, Edwin Colu, Christian Herter, Leveret Saltonstall, Percy Bridgeman, Franklin Roosevelt, Sinclair Weeks and Thomas Lamont. The University is not deficient on this score...