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...House Un-American Activities Committee let the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case simmer last week while it hunted for more facts to complete its inquiry. But one of Alger Hiss's strong defenders built a fire under him. The Washington Post, which had been sharply critical of the committee's inquiry and methods, reminded Hiss that a week had passed since Chambers had accepted Hiss's challenge and repeated his accusations at a time and place where he could be sued for slander...
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...
Then, for more than six hours, the committee's questioners tried to pin Alger Hiss down to fine details. Lawyer Hiss, a Harvard Law School graduate and a onetime secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, was not an easy man to pin down. He was cool, deliberate and professional, at times tripping up and correcting his questioners, at all times insisting on giving a precise answer. Knowing better than anyone that a possible perjury charge hung on his every word, he almost never offered a flat yes or a flat no. His favorite phrase, as he fenced tediously with...
...Alger Hiss is Mrs. Hiss's second husband. As Priscilla Hobson, she was a TIME copy chief...