Word: algers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the last heading comes the question of softness to Communism, of which the confused deadlock of the Korean war was the most persuasive symptom and the Alger Hiss case was the most clinically revealing symptom...
...Cleveland, Adlai Stevenson set out to explain his testimony again and more fully than before. Said he: "I had known Alger Hiss briefly in 1933 ... I did not meet him again until twelve years later . . . He never entered my house and I never entered his. I saw him twice in the fall of 1947.1 have not seen him since...
...spring of 1949, I was requested by the lawyers for Alger Hiss to appear at his first trial and testify as to his reputation. I refused to do so because of the burden of my official duties. I was then requested to give a sworn statement, taken under order of the court...
Republicans thought they were getting the better of this argument over Stevenson's testimony in the Hiss case. In a weekend speech, Nixon summed up the G.O.P. case: "Mr. Stevenson has never expressed one word of indignation at Alger Hiss's treachery. Like Dean Acheson, he says he does not question the legal verdict. But, also like Acheson, to this day he has not 'turned his back on Alger Hiss...
McCarthy displayed his usual tendency to imply conclusions more sweeping than his facts warranted and he once, in referring to Stevenson, said, "Alger-pardon me-I mean Adlai," a McCarthy trick that he has used several times before...