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Last spring a federal grand jury in Manhattan decided that William Remington's denials were hollow after all, and indicted him on a charge of perjury. Last week, as he went to trial in the Manhattan federal courtroom where Alger Hiss had faced a similar charge, Defendant Remington found that the prosecution had more than the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley to back its charge. The prosecution's first important witness was Remington's divorced wife...
During those subordinate years at State, Acheson had been an intellectual lodestar, and sometimes spokesman of a "liberal" group opposed to a "right wing" group (led by Adolf Berle) which had taken an antipodal position on Red Russia. The Acheson group (which included, among others, Alger Hiss) had held various attitudes toward Russia, none of them unfriendly. It was the Acheson group which had been the first to believe that the Chinese Communists might be tamed, and the last to identify the real enemy as Soviet Russia...
...chief critics-Robert Taft. He is a highly civilized man, an intellectual snob, with a snob's best qualities-stubborn convictions, a confidence in his own discrimination, and a certainty about his own judgment that would not let him turn his back on fellow Harvardman Alger Hiss, even after Hiss had been convicted. His famous Hiss remark (which he carefully rehearsed with aides before uttering to the press) is defended by his admirers as loyalty toward a friend, but it was the height of impropriety in a Secretary of State...
...Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...
...member of the Newsweek editorial staff, Ralph do Toledana has specialized in the study of two types of criminals; spies and traitors. His book, "Seeds of Treason," dezcribed the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers relationship...