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...more lenient than Judge Samuel Kaufman. He had permitted the defense to bring in a psychiatrist and a psychologist to testify that the Government's star witness, ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, was a "psychopathic personality," and allowed the prosecution to produce Hede Massing, ex-wife of Gerhart Eisler (she testified to meeting Hiss as a fellow Communist in Washington...
...Communist press praised Russia's "generous gesture" in releasing the prisoners. Gerhart Eisler, Eastern Germany's propaganda chief, said: "We are now strong enough to accept all those who have been released as full citizens...
...Said to Him." The Government promptly came back with the one sensational new witness of the trial. Over heated objections from the defense it put black-haired, bespectacled Mrs. Hede Massing, ex-wife of Communist Underground Chieftain Gerhart Eisler, on the stand. Mrs. Massing, once a vampish Viennese actress, testified that she had met Alger Hiss in the summer or fall of 1935 at the home of one Noel Field, whom she identified as a Communist member of the State Department...
This maelstrom of hysteria has never caught up the Dean's Office, and, indeed, Dean Bender's defense of the John Reed Club's right to sponsor a speech at Harvard by Gerhart Eisler was a strong statement of the case for individual liberties and free discussion. But the cold war has not entirely passed the College by, and it has, in fact, helped to shape the limitations on undergraduate activities...
...District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session. Though the Court crossed the case of Gerhardt Eisler off its agenda in June, it must also do something about the "Number One U. S. Communist" who jumped bail while his appeal was pending. Justice Jackson commented in June, "don't think we can run away from this case just because Eisler...