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...jittery Washington to wonder whether even the deepest of military or state secrets were safe from the U.S.S.R.'s agents. It also wrote a chilling epilogue to such recent demonstrations of the meaning of treason as the trial of the U.S. Communist hierarchy and the case of Alger Hiss (see below...
...Whatever the outcome of any appeal which Mr. Hiss or his lawyer may take," said the Secretary of State. "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss...
...Standards. Dean Acheson spoke in a voice weighted with emotion. "I think every person who has known Alger Hiss . . . has upon his conscience the very serious task of deciding what his attitude is and what his conduct should be," he said. "That must be done by each person in the light of his own standards and his own principles. For me, there is very little doubt about these standards or these principles. They were stated for us a very long time ago ... on the Mount of Olives...
Nobody in Congress raised his voice in rebuttal: to defend Acheson was to defend Alger Hiss. Even Harry Truman curtly refused comment. In the silence, the chatty, tea-table voice of Eleanor Roosevelt sounded. Mrs. Roosevelt, who obviously had not been paying much attention, was "very troubled" by the Hiss case: "It seems rather horrible to condemn someone on the word of someone else who admits to guilt," she said. She was either unaware of, or determined to ignore, the corroborating evidence introduced by the Government to prove the charges of its chief witness, Whittaker Chambers, onetime Communist courier...
...Attorney General J. Howard Mc-Grath said in Washington. He listed the costs of recent "big headline" trials: the Axis Sally trial came to $55,000; the Tokyo Rose case, $75,000; the trial of eleven Communists in Manhattan, $128,000; the Judith Coplon case, $75,000; the Alger Hiss case...