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When Mrs. Roosevelt, at this late date, refers to Alger Hiss's "alleged" treasonable act (TIME, Oct. 26), I am flabbergasted. If any one thing is responsible for McCarthyism, it is such muddled emotional thinking by people who should know better...
...Roosevelt's prose has the unique faculty of leaving the mind stumbling about in a forest of wavering, autumn-tinted meanings ... So the discovery of Hiss's "alleged" treason was less damaging to U.S. prestige than Senator McCarthy's investigations? . . . Or does the word "alleged" indicate that Mrs. Roosevelt does not believe that Hiss was a traitor? . . . Meanwhile, she remains unchallenged mistress of the dangling sequitur...
...American citizens have consciously, and in an organized fashion, used positions of government and society to , at very least, transmit secret information to the Soviet union. Whether they were trying to overthrow the government is debatable, but unless one reads through a dense fog of prejudice, the Rosenberg and Hiss trials, the Congressional sub-committee reports and other recent history, he cannot avoid this conclusion. Since new facts have been turning up with the stale ones almost every week, the conspiracy may have gone even deeper than is now apparent. People who have been too long in a university community...
...Minute Women's protests were remarkably effective. "Many public officials," reported O'Leary, "who might . . . defy a lone organization . . . would be loath to go against the wishes of 500 individuals." The Quakers' American Friends Service Committee was refused one meeting hall after a protest that "Alger Hiss attended a . . . Quaker meeting." Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University and the first Negro ever to become a member of the present Atlanta Board of Education, was invited to lecture at a Houston Methodist church. Minute Women joined in a loud protest that he was too controversial...
...belief is safe enough. Hiss, undetected, would probably have done no harm whatever to this nation's prestige abroad. That was not the harm he was convicted of doing...