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...beat out dapper, conservative Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News. But winning in November would not be so easy. Her Republican opponent will be Congressman Richard Nixon, 37, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and best known for his bloodhound pursuit of Alger Hiss. On the basis of their total primary votes, Congressman Nixon appeared to be a little out ahead of Congresswoman Douglas...
Perjury in the U.S. Seeds of Treason is a reconstruction by two Manhattan journalists of a case built around another courtroom trial: the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss. By doing some leg work on the famed "tragedy of history" that caught up Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Reporters Lasky and De Toledano have dug up some highly readable material on the early lives of both men and put together one of the spring's non-fiction bestsellers. (Chambers willingly cooperated, but one of Hiss's lawyers told Lasky and De Toledano that he could not expose...
...trial had been unfair. 2. He did not intend to turn his back on Hiss. 3. Hiss was a Republican. 4. He had warned his predecessor in the State Department about Hiss. 5. Hiss was not guilty...
...Another Hiss Case? FBI reports indicated that the State Department's Larsen had passed documents to Jaffe, and that on at least one occasion the Navy's Roth had met Jaffe and shown him some papers. Roth later said that he was showing Jaffe a chapter of a book he was writing on Asia. FBI agents reported that the State Department's Service, who had just been recalled from China, had met Jaffe in Washington and shown him a report he had prepared for his superiors. Journalist Gayn had in his possession documents which were duplicates...
...case differed in one important respect from the Hiss-Chambers case that was to develop more than three years later. There was no evidence that Jaffe had passed on any of the documents to the Soviet agents. As far as Government agents could tell, he was using the stolen information only to advance the cause of Communism in Asia in his magazine. Actually, his most peculiar and mostly private magazine was read with considerable respect at that time in some quarters in the State Department. One of his articles, suggesting that the U.S. encourage a Communist movement in enemy Japan...