Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational and philanthropic foundations have made a good record in resisting Communist infiltration. "A few small foundations," said the committee, "became captives of the Communist Party. Here and there a foundation board included a Communist or a Communist sympathizer . . . There remains the ugly, unalterable fact that Alger Hiss became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . that Frederick Vanderbilt Field became the secretary of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations." But the foundations' guilt, the committee noted, was "principally [in] indulging the same gullibility which infected far too many of our loyal and patriotic...
...when Whittaker Chambers began to tell in public his story about Alger Hiss, he called his testimony "an act of war." Since its foundation in 1919, the American Communist Party has, in fact, been at war with America, but during most of its existence, the party was allowed to grow and do its work of conspiracy and infiltration with relative impunity; between 1933 and the end of World War II, it was, in fact, often coddled and encouraged. The Hiss case was a turning point. Since 1948, hardly a week has gone by without some bulletin about the battle...
...invisible party has also suffered some setbacks. The convictions of Alger Hiss, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg have hampered Red espionage operations, although it is impossible to know whether the mainspring of the Red spy apparatus has been broken...
...everyone knew, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace had made one major blooper: in 1946 it appointed Alger Hiss to be its president. But, argued Trustee John W. Davis,* onetime Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency, Hiss had come with the highest recommendations. One of his chief sponsors was Chairman John Foster Dulles, and not a single member of the board could see anything wrong with Hiss's record. Had he ever shown a bias in favor of the Soviet Union while in office? Replied Davis flatly: "Not the slightest...
...Only 1%. Hiss was not the only name the endowment listed last week. Between 1926 and 1939 it gave $182,000 to the Institute of Pacific Relations, which in 1952 was denounced by the McCarran Committee as an "instrument of Communist policy." It also paid out about $15,000 in small sums to such leftists as Professor Frederick Schuman of Williams College, and Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, listed by the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the American League for Peace and Democracy and of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. All in all, said the endowment...