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...Wisconsin Senator said Stevenson's deposition on Alger Hiss during the first Hiss perjury trial would not be an important part of the broadcast...
Truman was not the only one responsible for the fouls. Both Eisenhower and Nixon were equally as guilty. Nixon cried that Stevenson was an unworthy candidate because "he had gone down the line" for Alger Hiss. Completely ignoring the facts--that a United States Marshal was sent to the Governor to request a deposition and that Stevenson answered honestly what he and others had thought of Hiss--Nixon irresponsibly tried to make a commendable act seem a treacherous alliance...
...failure of this Administration to deal effectively with the Communist threat," said Nixon, in earnest and subdued tones, is the "greatest issue in the election." To demonstrate the failure, Nixon retold the story of the Hiss case: Whittaker Chambers' first accusation, the confrontation of the two men, Alger Hiss's admission, after twelve days of denial, that he had known Chambers after all. Nixon outlined the Administration's attempts to "cover up" the case, including an executive order by President Truman, forbidding "the FBI ... to cooperate with the Committee [on Un-American Activities] in its investigation...
...poverty and despair, and following, as it happens, twelve years of Republican administration." Then, many Americans became discouraged with capitalism, and nearly a million, in 1932, voted "against the capitalist system."*It was at that time, said Stevenson in an interpolation to his prepared text, "that some persons like Alger Hiss and Elizabeth Bentley, witnessing the devastation of capitalism and the menacing rise of Hitler, became entangled in the Communist conspiracy...
Stevenson testified as to the good reputation of Alger Hiss, who graduated from the Law School...