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...Myers. His opponent, Pennsylvania's able, red-haired Governor Jim Duff, was popular, and Republicans had not lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas...
...haggard figures, wearing their familiar difficult smiles, once more made the long walk up the stone steps to the U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square. There, with his wife always at his side, Alger Hiss had gone through two of the most thoroughly publicized trials in U.S. history, for a perjury which involved past espionage. Last week the Hisses appeared in court again, this time to hear his lawyer argue the appeal from the five-year prison sentence Hiss got last January...
Thus the fatal, if inevitable, defect of "A Generation on Trial" is that it says nothing, absolutely nothing, new. The background and the trial details are valuable and perhaps interesting for many persons, particularly those who are students of the Hiss case. But the book adds nothing to public knowledge about the essentials: Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers...
...contribution, more or less incidentally. He reveals his won opinions on the case as it unfolded, and in doing so paints a picture of the genus "Confused Liberal." First he thought the whole Chambers story preposterous. Later he saw that espionage had been committed in the thirties but doubted Hiss' part in it. Finally he felt that the weight of evidence seemed to be against the defendant. But like the rest of us, he still doesn't know what the final truth will be in the Hiss-Chambers story...
...year-old letter written by Son. Herbert H. Lehman (D.N.Y.) in defense of Alger Hiss was published yesterday in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. Lehman promptly issued a statement saying he has no apology for it. He pointed out that it was dated Aug., 1948--more than a year before the conviction of Hiss on a perjury charge...