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...first thing to say about Alistair Cooke's treatment of Alger Hiss is that it is honest and carefully, almost painfully, impartial. These days that is saying a good deal. A previously published book on the Hiss trial ("Seeds of Treason" by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky) paints so black a picture of the defendant that probably even Thomas F. Murphy, the erstwhile prosecutor, would raise an occasional eyebrow over it. Mr. Cooke, then, is accurate. Whether he is more than that is another question...
...inevitable, defect of "A Generation on Trial" is that it says nothing, absolutely nothing, new. The background and the trial details are valuable and perhaps interesting for many persons, particularly those who are students of the Hiss case. But the book adds nothing to public knowledge about the essentials: Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers...
...year-old letter written by Son. Herbert H. Lehman (D.N.Y.) in defense of Alger Hiss was published yesterday in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. Lehman promptly issued a statement saying he has no apology for it. He pointed out that it was dated Aug., 1948--more than a year before the conviction of Hiss on a perjury charge...
...ouster of ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's police commissioner, William P. O'Brien. Out of thin air he produced a new commissioner who pleased the jurors just fine: hard-hitting, splendidly mustachioed Thomas F. Murphy, recently resigned federal prosecutor, who had won the conviction of Alger Hiss...
...Cooke is laudably fair as a reporter, the title of his book is a misnomer -one that his introduction labors unsuccessfully to justify. He concedes that "though the count was perjury, the implied charge [against Alger Hiss] was espionage." At the same time, he works overtime to imply that Hiss's whole generation should now be saying to itself, there but for the grace...