Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alger Hiss was near the end of his road. Last week a U.S. court of appeals decided there was enough believable evidence of his guilt. The "breadth and scope" of Whittaker Chambers' testimony against him had been "adequately substantiated," said the court. Nor could the court find any reversible errors in his second trial, which ended last January, in Hiss's conviction for perjury on two counts...
...Said Hiss: "I reaffirm my innocence." He has 30 days to carry an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that suggested indulgence toward traitors...
...member of the Newsweek editorial staff, Ralph do Toledana has specialized in the study of two types of criminals; spies and traitors. His book, "Seeds of Treason," dezcribed the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers relationship...
...that it was doing too much in Europe, but that it had not done enough in Asia. Maryland's John Marshall Butler, who had sensationally defeated McCarthy's archfoe, Millard Tydings, favored aid to Europe. So did California's Richard Nixon, nemesis of Alger Hiss, who campaigned against Communism in government...