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...wartime OSS man, testified before Senator William Jenner in Boston. Though he insisted that he had not at any time committed espionage, he refused to say whether he had ever been a member of Elizabeth Bentley's spy ring or whether he had ever known Alger Hiss, William Remington or John Abt. Professor Halperin did say: "At no time and in no way whatsoever have I tried to influence the political, philosophical or social thinking of my students...
...fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss...
...perfectly obvious, to anyone who is not a Communist that any institution that does not wish to be investigated has something to hide. Only the Commics and their Pink pals yelped when the IPR, Voice of America, and other Truman-Acheson-Hiss organizations went under scrutiny. We do not know which Senators are afraid to bare their past affiliations, marital relations, income, hobbies and food habits to a loyalty and security check, but 67 of the 70 solons present opposed Morse. That is a hefty percentage. After all, Congressman Velde has said that even in colleges, only the disloyal oppose...
Another convicted perjurer also lost a legal round last week. The U.S. court of appeals refused to set aside a lower-court decision denying a new trial to Alger Hiss...
...educational and philanthropic foundations have made a good record in resisting Communist infiltration. "A few small foundations," said the committee, "became captives of the Communist Party. Here and there a foundation board included a Communist or a Communist sympathizer . . . There remains the ugly, unalterable fact that Alger Hiss became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . that Frederick Vanderbilt Field became the secretary of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations." But the foundations' guilt, the committee noted, was "principally [in] indulging the same gullibility which infected far too many of our loyal and patriotic...