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...flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists and influenced U.S. policy...
Halperin's refusal to testify whether he was a Communist came during Senator Jenner's investigation last June. He also refused to testify if he knew Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, or others named in the espionage ring...
...fact is that the Hiss case plus the work of the McCarthy, Jenner, McCarran and House Committees have placed the communist lovers on the defensive in American life for the first time since the late Franklin D. Roosevelt made the tragic error of extending the hand of friendship to Russia via diplomatic recognition in 1932. And the communist lovers are fighting back today as only they know how to fight. Yes, it is time that every HARVARD MAN stood up to be counted on this isue. Kenneth L. Meyers '34 Wichita, Kansas
...case was even more grave than the exposure of Alger Hiss, inasmuch as 1) White held higher positions in the Government, and 2) it was never alleged that a President of the U.S. had been officially informed that Hiss...
Braden remembered seeing Alger Hiss's name in the report. He added an item of interest: "All that made a deep impression on me. Subsequently, I had a run-in with Hiss over Panama bases, and I could see how he was playing the Communist game...