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Within a span of six hours one day last week, the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss became a major political issue...
...seemed more surely marked for success, and few had found the path to it more smooth. Handsome, popular, effortlessly brilliant, Alger Hiss had been a Harvard protégé of Felix Frankfurter, secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Among the New Deal's bright young men, he rose steadily. Soon he became a familiar figure at high councils of state, sitting just behind the men at the green-topped tables of power. As secretary general of the San Francisco Conference, he was shown in the news pictures between Russia's Molotov...
...This Lady, Right There." Alger Hiss's first trial had ended in a hung jury. In the second, Judge Goddard had proved more lenient than Judge Samuel Kaufman. He had permitted the defense to bring in a psychiatrist and a psychologist to testify that the Government's star witness, ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was a "psychopathic personality," and allowed the prosecution to produce Hede Massing, ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler (she testified to meeting Hiss as a fellow Communist in Washington...
...mocking. He drove straight to the heart of the case. "I told you . . . that the facts would be proven by immutable documents," he said. He pointed to the Hiss typewriter and the copies of the State Department documents typed on it, which Chambers declared he had gotten from Alger Hiss. "There they are," said Murphy. "They don't change. No one's memory is involved here. They are immutable . . . Take them with you to the jury room. Take this machine...
Over the long months since August 1948, the case of Alger Hiss had been an agonizing public ordeal that left its mark on those who lived it. For a weary, tarnished man who had trodden the harsh, thankless road to Communism and back, the verdict was at least a partial expiation. Milking the cows on his Maryland farm, Whittaker Chambers said: "My work is finished...