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Within a span of six hours one day last week, the case of the U.S. v. Alger Hiss became a major political issue...
...quiet Manhattan courtroom, Hiss was sentenced to five years in prison. Hiss scarcely had time to post $10,000 bail and file an appeal before Secretary of State Dean Acheson set off the storm. At a crowded press conference in Washington, Acheson went to the defense of the former top State Department official whom a federal jury had convicted of perjury and thus found, guilty of stealing State documents to be sent to Russia...
...What do they prove?" he demanded. "Treason!" He pointed at Defendant Hiss: "And that is the traitor." The jury took just under 24 hours to agree. The defense promptly announced that it would appeal...
Towering Prosecutor Murphy was alternately scathing, indignant and mocking. He drove straight to the heart of the case. "I told you . . . that the facts would be proven by immutable documents," he said. He pointed to the Hiss typewriter and the copies of the State Department documents typed on it, which Chambers declared he had gotten from Alger Hiss. "There they are," said Murphy. "They don't change. No one's memory is involved here. They are immutable . . . Take them with you to the jury room. Take this machine...
Over the long months since August 1948, the case of Alger Hiss had been an agonizing public ordeal that left its mark on those who lived it. For a weary, tarnished man who had trodden the harsh, thankless road to Communism and back, the verdict was at least a partial expiation. Milking the cows on his Maryland farm, Whittaker Chambers said: "My work is finished...