Word: chambersized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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You omitted a significant item in the story on Whittaker Chambers [July 21]. Chambers had in the Congressional hearings charged that Hiss had been a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to repeat the charge outside of the Congressional hearings without immunity so that. he could bring suit against him. It was...
You will remember that after Chambers had appeared on Meet the Press and had said that Hiss was a Communist, Hiss did not sue for a while. Editorial after editorial throughout the country commented on the fact, and when the Washington Post, one of Hiss's staunch defenders, challenged...
¶After the public accusation, Hiss filed suit for libel in Baltimore, asking $75,000 damages. In a pretrial hearing, Hiss's lawyers challenged Chambers to show proof of his relationship with Hiss, and Chambers produced the famous "pumpkin papers." They were yielded to the Department of Justice, which...
Whittaker Chambers' last word on the Hiss case was printed in 1959 by the right-wing National Review, for which he worked briefly as an editor. Alger Hiss, declared Chambers, had not paid his penalty "except in the shallowest legalistic sense. There is only one possible payment, as I...
Died. Whittaker Chambers, 60, eloquent, eye-opening ex-Communist whose 1949 testimony sent Alger Hiss to prison; of a heart attack; in Westminster, Md. (see THE NATION).