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...speeches, all of the nominations failed in setting up a real issue we could get our teeth into. But Adlai and Harry have done it for us. No doubt about it-Adlai nominated Nixon in his opening television speech, and a week eariier Harry had set up Alger Hiss for a second term. So let's fight it out on their own battle line: Nixon v. Hiss...
...record. If they had any doubts, Truman settled the matter last August when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks ago when Truman spoke in defense of Alger Hiss. For these remarks, Truman's opponents say, he can never be forgiven, but can he ever again be useful to a Stevenson ticket...
Communism in Government. "As I have repeatedly said, I have never doubted the verdict of the jury which convicted [Alger Hiss]. If [that] places me in disagreement with what President Truman says (TIME, Sept. 17), that is where the record must rest." Once he had delivered this carefully prepared statement at a Washington press conference, Stevenson refused to answer another question as to whether he actually believed Hiss a traitor...
Communism at Home. "It shouldn't be an issue which would ever divide Americans. [But] if Mr. Stevenson does not repudiate the statement of Mr. Truman, who still says that Alger Hiss was not a Communist and not a spy, then we have no choice but to discuss the issue and let the people decide whether we or our opponents are better qualified to handle this difficult problem...
Having thus dragged his aromatic old red herring into the ring trailing the Hiss case behind it, Harry went on to assure Professor Bouscaren that neither Harry Dexter White nor Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, leaders of a Red cabal among federal employees during and after World War II, were spies. Said Truman: "Neither of them were guilty of anything...