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Elizabeth Bentley, beloved of the tabloids as the onetime "Red spy queen," made a little speech in Rochester, N.Y. to some 1,200 people. She pleaded with her onetime Red comrades to "come out," and urged her listeners to "be patient" with them when they did: "Sometimes the greatest sinners make the greatest saints." Earlier she had told the press about her conversion to Roman Catholicism. In a way, she supposed, it was inevitable: "People who are genuine Communists, as I was, aren't the lukewarm type. They can't go into a vacuum if they give...
Continually denying that it was a problem, Rogge did observe that "the American Communist Party isn't even a second-rate party, let alone a first-rate one. If it were, it wouldn't have had people like Bentley and Budens in its midst...
...connection with a Communist plot to infiltrate the U.S. Government was Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 23), he admitted knowing many of the others also named by ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. But he denied that he had ever been a Communist...
...thought there was nothing odd about the fact that he knew several of the people accused by Elizabeth Bentley: George Silverman (a friend of his Harvard days), Victor Perlo, Harry White, Robert Talbot Miller III. Some were economists and he knew "literally hundreds of economists throughout the Government." One friend of Currie's who was no economist was Anatoli Gromov, onetime secretary of the Russian embassy. Miss Bentley testified last week that on one occasion Gromov had given her $2,000 for her information. Currie readily admitted knowing Gromov. "I met him at social occasions and was entertained...
...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...