Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irons only looks up those cases that interest him. One of Irons's main research projects right now is an investigation of the Alger Hiss case. Irons's interest grew out of his doctoral research, when he found some files in a library in the midwest that mentioned Hiss. Irons followed the discovery up with interviews, and research into the Hiss case is now a major part of his life. He says he is "almost--not quite" positive that Hiss was innocent of the charges of espionage and perjury for which he was convicted, and the law student filed...
...Hiss, like Irons, is still waiting for his own suit to be heard in court. "Peter came up last summer with two major pieces of evidence in the case," Hiss says. "He's not the kind of researcher who writes letters to institutions, he actually goes there and gets the stuff himself. I'm very fortunate he's one of the researchers working on my case...
...Titled The Middle of the Journey, the book described the intellectual torture of a Communist in the process of quitting the party. Reviews which praised its "assurance, literacy and intelligence" aroused the interest of FBI agents investigating Whittaker Chambers' allegations of spying by State Department Official Alger Hiss. Indeed Trilling had shared a class with Chambers when both were Columbia students, and he frankly admitted fictionalizing Chambers' story in his novel. But when Hiss's lawyers asked him to testify against Chambers, he refused...
...press on the Rosenberg question, Allen Weinstein is apparently going to be one of the "liberals" Michael Meeropol criticized. Weinstein has said in the past of the Rosenbergs, "I tend to think they were Soviet agents, but of a more minor sort than the government claimed." As for Hiss, Weinstein has given no concrete indication of the stance he will take. But in an Esquire Magazine article this month, he did accuse former President Nixon of deliberately lying about and distorting his own personal role in the Hiss case. Weinstein demonstrates that Nixon had been shown an FBI file naming...
...type of scholarship Weinstein is engaged in, the Meeropols' investigation of their parents' case, Alger Hiss's efforts to prove his innocence, all lead to broad philosophical questions concerning the nature of historical truths. It may well be that both the Rosenbergs and the FBI, both Hiss and Chambers, were lying. It is possible that no party to the cases will be able to maintain that the complete truth rests on its side. It is then that the area of judgmental truth will be entered. Did the Rosenbergs and the FBI have different reasons for lying? What are the distinctions...