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...Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
...been answered freshman year (where is home, family income, reasons for coming) take the place of questions which could only be answered, if at all, by Seniors. Some of the right questions are asked, of course, but in a way which allows all significance to escape with a quiet hiss. Seniors are asked whether they believe that labor unions have become too strong for the good of the country; the Yearbook expects this question to give an idea of the spectrum of Harvard political views. The Yearbook seems not to be interested in what the Harvardman thinks, but rather...
...Hiss' lawyers' thesis is that the Number 230099 was a fake, "a deliberately fabricated job . . . planted on the defense." Through a succession of analyses by document experts, metallurgists, and typewriter officials, Hiss' lawyers proposed that Number 230099 is actually an old Woodstock--too old to have been Hiss'--with a set of new typefaces similar in design to those on Hiss' model. The defense asserted that Chambers made this imitation typewriter between August and November of 1948, typed out these documents on them, and then planted the typewriter where the defense would find it later...
...this type of evidence that makes the Hiss case so puzzling. If this typewriter thesis is true, then there is no doubt but that Chambers has lied, and that Hiss was "framed." But the whole story of a fake typewriter seems so fantastic that it is virtually impossible to accept. One asks over and over, how could Chambers in 1948 have found the time and seclusion necessary to make a bogus typewriter, and then plant the machine so that Hiss' lawyers would "discover" it later? Why would he not destroy the machine instead of leaving himself open to possible suspicion...
...plods through the cold, carefully-worded book, Hiss' persistence does have its effect. Hiss certainly "appears" right in much of his attack on Chambers' testimony, and he is often convincing in offsetting incriminating evidence. But it is this legal approach to the case that detracts the most from the book. The work is a microscopic observation of the whole Chambers-Hiss case from Hiss' point-of-view, a point-of-view already well-known. Hiss tells the reader little about his intellectual background, especially his attitude toward radicalism, something that is crucial to the whole Case. One wonders...