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...GENERATION ON TRIAL, U.S.A. v. ALGER Hiss (342 pp.)-Alistair Cooke -Knopf...
Like most important U.S. trials, the case of the United States v. Alger Hiss was so fully reported that many surfeited newspaper readers still wonder just what went on in the courtroom. The most convenient and agreeable way to find out is to read A Generation on Trial by Alistair Cooke, brilliant U.S. correspondent of England's Manchester Guardian, himself a U.S. citizen since...
...able conduct of the Alger Hiss trials, U.S. Prosecutor Tom Murphy, who in eight years has never lost a case for the Government, got the President's personal thanks, but that was as far as it went. Unfortunately, Murphy had not bothered to cultivate the men who dispense New York's Democratic plums-or even to join a political club. Since there was little chance for reward or advancement (i.e., the judgeship Murphy was hoping for), there was little point in staying on the Government payroll for a piddling $9,400 a year. After Hiss's appeal...
...Wallace, began slipping away from his Commie cronies. California's Congressman Richard Nixon, scenting opportunity, decided to call him before the House Un-American Activities Committee and ask him a few questions. (Once before, when Whittaker Chambers named Pressman as a member of the same elite apparatus as Alger Hiss, Pressman had taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment, refused to answer Congressmen's questions...
...also retailed some sins to the press. He admitted having joined the Communist Party in 1934: it was all, he said, because of the depression and Hitlerism. He had gotten out after one year, though he continued to run with top Communists for 15 more. He had never known Alger Hiss as a Communist. And he was now against the Russians...