Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...
...digging deeper, they bring up Alger Hiss or Harry Dexter White, he can counter with James B. Conant, Edwin Colu, Christian Herter, Leveret Saltonstall, Percy Bridgeman, Franklin Roosevelt, Sinclair Weeks and Thomas Lamont. The University is not deficient on this score...
Charges of intrigue first made headlines in mid-summer 1948 when Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers, self-confessed former underground agents, told the House Un-American Activities Committee about organized spying in government. Alger Hiss was high up on Chambers' prescription list and in time went to prison, convicted of perjury committed before an espionage-seeking committee...
According to the testimony of Chambers and Nathaniel Weyl, the first functional Red cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were...
These defenses do not usually satisfy the critics, however. This admitted-exclusiveness angers many, who feel that it frustrates the Horatic Alger tradition. In 1939, a student writing in the The Harvard Progressive termed the clubs "Citadels of Snobbery," and charged that they had not place at democratic Harvard. In '39, however, defense was more vocal: "Nonsense," said one club alumni, "it's these progressives who have no place at Harvard...