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Chambers said he regretted that public attention had concentrated on what amounted to "a kind of duel between two men," meaning himself and Alger Hiss, the ex-State Department official he named as a fellow conspirator in Communist espionage. Said he: "The most important thing for everyone to understand is the duration and the dimension of the conspiracy rather than the characters of the persons involved or what seem to be the chief protagonists...
...TIME of Dec. 13 . . . after stating that Whittaker Chambers produced certain papers during the course of depositions taken by me as attorney for Alger Hiss...
...more solid evidence that Duggan had had knowing contact with Communist espionage. There were indications that he had been friendly with a former State Department official named Noel Field, identified last summer in testimony by Chambers as a member of a Communist apparatus. The New York Daily News quoted Alger Hiss as saying that Duggan was a very good friend of his and that he was a "victim of persecution." Hiss later denied having made the statement...
...indictment read: "Alger Hiss . . . having duly taken an oath . . . did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully and contrary to said oath, state material matters which he did not believe to be true." There was no indictment against Chambers. One chapter of an abysmal story had come...
...Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again in Judge Clancy's courtroom. His debonair manner had vanished. His boyish face was a bleak, set mask. He was charged, he was told, with perjury. How did he plead? "I plead not guilty to both counts," he said...