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...Without God. "I was a witness. I do not mean a witness for the Government or against Alger Hiss ... A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something ... It was my fate to be, in turn, a witness to each of the great faiths of our time...
Just two years ago, Alger Hiss, onetime State Department official, was found guilty of perjuring himself in testimony about Whittaker Chambers, former Communist courier. Before he was sentenced, Hiss told the court: "I am confident that in the future the full facts showing how Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be developed...
...teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there is just nothing in it to criticize...
...Stalin's greatest victories have been won in the United States" he cried while waving his forefinger like a baton. "Poland was lost in Washington, D.C. by Alger Hiss. China was lost in our nation's capitol." These charges are familiar, but Budenz supported them in a unique way. He grabbed a thin red volume from somewhere and read off a eulogy to Stalin by the Chinese Delegation to the Seventh International. "Strange words aren't they," said Budenz, "coming from Asia-for-the-Asiatics like Owen J. Lattimore...
...large part of the answer is that Joe McCarthy in 1950 had hit a highly sensitive public nerve. When McCarthy first spoke up, Hiss, whose case Truman had called "a red herring," had just been convicted, and Acheson had declared: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss." The U.S. people had just begun to realize fully the malevolence of the enemy they faced. Abroad, the West had suffered a grievous setback in the loss of China to Communism...