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...Alger Hiss, accused of being a Communist and a traitor, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities on Aug. 25, 1948: "It is inconceivable that there could have been on my part, during 15 years or more in public office . . . any departure from the highest rectitude . . . anything except the highest adherence to duty and honor...
Throughout his two trials for perjury. Hiss kept saying that he had not sinned. Chambers kept confessing sins. Yet both juries voted (the first 8 to 4, the second 12 to 0) that the Pharisee was a whited sepulcher, that the publican spoke the truth...
...case in living memory, not even the Dreyfus or the Sacco-Vanzetti cases, split a nation so sharply into two camps. The other two cases touched passions that were primarily political. The Hiss-Chambers case has stirred the whole spirit of the time. The conflicting forces of the 20th century-religious, social and political-beat over it in fierce waves...
Another top Democrat, looking the field over, took no comfort from what he saw. In his view, Kefauver will not stand up well under Republican campaign hammering. Adlai Stevenson will be badly hurt by the fact that he was a character witness for Alger Hiss. Barkley is too old. Harriman's platform and television performances probably would be the worst of the lot. Oklahoma's Kerr is relatively unknown...
...Boston University Law School to "help restore the real philosophy of America." He added that "I don't know of a single Boston University graduate who is so embedded in this new philosophy that he would dare to enter a court as a character witness for Alger Hiss...