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...know the details of the charges nor the motives for this crime." As for the Communist insistence that a minister must answer for all the acts of subordinates, even their crimes, Scelba was scathing: the U.S. Secretary of State was not believed culpable because one of his subordinates, Alger Hiss, was found guilty of a crime. Britain's Foreign Secretary was not replaced when two of his subordinates vanished behind the Iron Curtain. "In Russia," added Scelba wryly, "the head of the police was executed because he had supposedly been serving capitalism, but I am not aware that...
Died. Clarke S. Ryan, 31, an assistant U.S. Attorney under Thomas F. Murphy, who, after Murphy resigned to become New York City police commissioner, took over the Government's case against Alger Hiss; of polio; in Manhattan...
process of skewering McCarthy, Authors Rorty and Decter reserve a few sharp thrusts for some of his critics-the breed described by Old Socialist Norman Thomas as the liberals "who may be reluctantly persuaded that Alger Hiss is guilty, but never can forgive Whittaker Chambers." Rorty and Decter completely reject the hysterical view that the U.S. is in the grip of McCarthy-inspired hysteria, or that the man from Wisconsin is the American Hitler...
...final seal of approval on a bale of bills. The main ones: flex ible farm-parity prices, atomic energy, death penalty for peacetime espionage, social security, foreign aid, 5% Government salary raise, unemployment compensation, higher national debt limit, Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing authority, Foreign Service expansion, and the "Hiss" bill revoking pensions of Government workers convicted of felonies or using the Fifth Amendment...
...Received from its Post Office and Civil Service Committee a bill to deny civil service pensions to Government workers who duck behind the Fifth Amendment, or who are convicted of perjury, bribery, graft, treason, or any other felony. The proposal arose from the case of Alger Hiss, who will get a federal pension at age 62 unless the bill is enacted...