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...Alger Hiss' most personal comments appear in four short paragraphs at the end of his book. Summing up, Hiss writes...
Published this week, Alger Hiss's In the Court of Public Opinion (Knopf; $5) turns out to be a heavily legalistic, dully written analysis of the Hiss case; lawyers will instantly recognize it as a rewrite of Hiss's motion for a new trial, which the courts denied. Hiss stoutly maintains his innocence of the charge that he committed perjury when he denied giving State Department secrets to Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. His defense is essentially the same one that his lawyers used in his 1949 and 1950 trials. Author Alger Hiss seems remarkably devoid of personal outrage...
...much of official Washington was solidly and politically on the side of Democrat Hiss at the time that Chambers challenged him. President Harry Truman called the hearings before the Republican-controlled House Committee a "red herring"; Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared he would "not turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...Alger Hiss's book adds little that is new to a case that ran the full course of American justice...
...found what he needed. Stories of Soviet espionage abounded; the long fingers of Communism had been caught all too convincingly in Washington ; the nation, only recently run through the shattering experience of the Alger Hiss trial, was nervous. In Wheeling, W. Va. Joe McCarthy stood before a Lincoln Day audience, waved a piece of paper and cried with melodramatic certainty that "I have here in my hand" a list of Government employees known by Secretary of State Dean Acheson to be members of the Communist Party. Later listeners said McCarthy put the total of the list at 205; Joe denied...