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...Alger Hiss, accused of being a Communist and a traitor, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities on Aug. 25, 1948: "It is inconceivable that there could have been on my part, during 15 years or more in public office . . . any departure from the highest rectitude . . . anything except the highest adherence to duty and honor...
Another top Democrat, looking the field over, took no comfort from what he saw. In his view, Kefauver will not stand up well under Republican campaign hammering. Adlai Stevenson will be badly hurt by the fact that he was a character witness for Alger Hiss. Barkley is too old. Harriman's platform and television performances probably would be the worst of the lot. Oklahoma's Kerr is relatively unknown...
...graduates of the Boston University Law School to "help restore the real philosophy of America." He added that "I don't know of a single Boston University graduate who is so embedded in this new philosophy that he would dare to enter a court as a character witness for Alger Hiss...
...twist has been added to the charges that Harvard breeds Communists. Whittaker Chambers has accused William L. Marbury, LL.B. '24, a Fellow of the College, of rallying to the defense of Alger Hiss, LL.B. '29, in a pique of snobbism...
...continued: "It was as if a loathsome interloper (myself) had climbed like a thief into one of those beautiful old brick-welled Baltimore gardens or into Harvard yard italics are Chambers (Marbury is a Harvard Overseer) (sic) and there perpetrated a disgusting outrage by making a monstrous charge against Alger Hiss--a charge which was automatically monstrous not only be-because it touched a friend but because it let the excluded world peep inquisitively over Marbury's cherished walls...