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...twist has been added to the charges that Harvard breeds Communists. Whittaker Chambers has accused William L. Marbury, LL.B. '24, a Fellow of the College, of rallying to the defense of Alger Hiss, LL.B. '29, in a pique of snobbism...
When reporters on the television program asked about his deposition in the first Alger Hiss trial, Stevenson replied that he was asked what Hiss's reputation was for loyalty, integrity and honesty, and had deposed that so far as he knew, Hiss's reputation was good. Of Hiss's conviction, he said: "I believe explicitly that a jury of one's peers must find the right answer or else we can have no faith in our judicial system...
...member of the Communist Party?" "Yes, I have, Mr. Morris," said Weyl firmly, and the room quieted to attentive silence. A few moments later reporters were scribbling: as a member of a Communist cell in Washington in 1934, Nathaniel Weyl swore that he attended secret Communist meetings with Alger Hiss, and saw Hiss pay his party dues...
Secret Assignment. It was an important new underpinning to the case against Hiss which Whittaker Chambers had been forced to build almost singlehanded. Weyl dragged deeply on cigarette after cigarette as he told of joining the party through the National Student League in January 1933, while he was a graduate student in economics at Columbia. When, he went to work in Washington for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in late 1933, he was assigned to a secret AAA Communist cell by Harold Ware, named by Chambers and other witnesses as the boss of the Washington Communist apparatus. Weyl, a deliberate, conservative...
...Communist United Farmers League, then turned principally to writing and speechmaking. He broke openly with the party at the time of the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939, "culminating a period of doubt and indecision." But not until the outbreak of the Korean war (five months after Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in his second trial) did Weyl go to the FBI and offer his evidence. Why had he waited so long to tell his story? His answer gave a clue to the reluctance which may keep other ex-Communists from coming forward. "It was a feeling that...