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...Also noted for his book, The Strange Case of Alger Hiss (1953), in which he reviewed the evidence in the Hiss trials, suggested that 1) Hiss was innocent and 2) U.S. justice was poorly administered...
...Chambers, the Villain, he pours irresistible common sense on the woozled thinking of those who argue that Alger Hiss may have been guilty, but still scorn Whittaker Chambers as an "informer." Says Koestler: "To talk of betrayal [by Chambers of Hiss] where loyalty would mean persistence in crime [is] to defend the agents of an evil regime on the grounds that those who denounce it are no saints." ¶The Seven Deadly Fallacies (e.g., confusion of Left and East, the anti-anti attitude) and a brilliant Guide to Political Neuroses (e.g., collective amnesia, eternal adolescence) are probably his most valuable...
Smith realized without prompting that he was in deadly trouble. He was diving much faster than the speed of sound. He knew that if he bailed out, the hard-fingered wind might rip him to shreds. Smith killed his engine and put on his speed brakes. The hiss of the wind filled the cockpit. His sleek aircraft was losing altitude faster than it was losing speed...
...this same group has turned upon Nixon as the man who stopped Hiss's triumphal march and helped to vindicate Chambers. If ever there was a flagrant case of the truth's being twisted by knaves (the real Communists and their conscious sympathizers) to set a trap for the thoughtless and the unwary, this is it. You deserve great credit for beginning to clear...
There are many reasons for the Democratic propagandists' concentration on Nixon. The most obvious is the political disadvantage of attacking a figure as popular as Eisenhower. Normal party antagonism has to find an outlet; Nixon has been it. Many liberal Democrats who changed their minds about the Alger Hiss case never stopped resenting the fact that Congressional Investigator Nixon arrived early at the conclusion they reached much later or that in the campaign Nixon most effectively pressed home the point that Adlai Stevenson was a character witness (by deposition) for Hiss at his first trial in 1952 and again...