Word: algerism
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...that they believe would clear the names of their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 as nuclear spies. Historian Allen Weinstein of Smith College, who has tried in vain for three years to open up the FBI files on the Rosenberg and Alger Hiss cases, complains: "The amendments haven't made any change as far as I can tell." Historian James MacGregor Burns agrees. After failing for two years to force the State Department to release thousands of pages of material on the diplomatic history of the 1950s and 1960s, he warns: "We should...
After the ceremony broke up, the previously unidentified men came out from behind their cloak of gray flannel. Of the ten surviving Holmes clerks, seven had made it to the ceremony: Chauncey Belknap, Thomas G. Corcoran, Lawrence Curtis, H. Chapman Rose, Robert W. Wales, and Alger Hiss and his brother Donald...
...Holmes gave us no advice," said Alger Hiss, probably the most famous of all the clerks present. "He always said form your battalions and fight...
When the group had dwindled to the Hiss brothers and a few lingering guests someone asked Alger Hiss if Holmes's reputation for profanity had any basis in truth...
...exception for law-enforcement investigatory records, for example, was recently cited to protect Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. Attorney General William Saxbe reversed an earlier decision to disclose and decided instead that FBI techniques and informers would be compromised, even though the case is a quarter-century old. Angered, Smith College Historian Allen Weinstein will now press his claim in court under the act's provision for judicial review. He may not have much luck. Judges have upheld similar bureaucratic refusals when a Congressman sought reports on the My Lai massacre investigation...