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...Hiss Trial...
Your fine story of the Alger Hiss trial [TIME, July 18] ... is a credit to American journalism and presents a completely clear picture of the entire case...
...believe in ignoring facts. How the four jurors who voted against conviction could choose to ignore those three proven facts of the case is much more than I can understand. What did they want before they voted for conviction? . . . Maybe some gremlins from the Kremlin used Hiss's typewriter, without his knowledge, of course...
...Your story on the Hiss trial wrapped the whole subject up for me, after weeks of frustrated wondering what it was all about. . . . Can you tell me why my newspapers quoted so sparely from those summation speeches? I could make neither head nor tail of the trial from their accounts...
...Then, later: "Let us suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face. We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face." Finally, referring to Hiss: "Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous...