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...Department in Washington, for the League of Nations in Geneva, for the OSS in wartime Europe, for the Unitarian Service Committee in France. After the war, he and his brother Hermann sauntered through the Iron Curtain countries like welcome guests. Whittaker Chambers said Noel was a friend of Alger Hiss and a Communist agent; the Communists said he worked for the U.S. "imperialists." His sister said Noel and his whole family were just "Quaker-Liberals" who were "arch-individualists...
Noel Field disappeared from his hotel in Prague two weeks before Chambers started testifying in the Hiss trial in early 1949. His wife Herta, his brother Hermann, and finally, his adopted daughter Erika Glaser Wallach, went behind the Iron Curtain to look for him. One after another, like the three little Indians, they vanished-one, two, three...
Before his slated release from the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary this week, Model Prisoner Alger Hiss, 50, had a "customary talk" with the warden. Hiss, who has served three years, eight months and five days of a five-year sentence for perjury (for denying that he had turned secret documents over to the Communists while in the State Department), could scarcely find much consolation in the warden's parting words. When, as ex-Convict 19137, he walks out of Lewisburg's gate two days after Thanksgiving Day, Lawyer Hiss will greet the world as a convicted felon, practically broke...
...group waved such placards as WHY DID ALGER HISS WANT TRIAL IN VERMONT? DO YOU KNOW SENATOR FLANDERS? This referred to the fact that Flanders' brother's wife's sister's divorced husband was a brother of Alger Hiss's wife. Then McCarthy followers milled around the Capitol and Senate Office Building most of the day. Once when McCarthy strode down a Capitol corridor, a grandmotherly woman darted out, touched him, and dashed away shrieking: "I touched...
...with his homilies down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to any ex-communist, while the country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs lie. Any hint of co-existing with Russia could...