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...Acheson could not talk about top-level policy. But the Senate committee did want to hear about the international affairs of Acheson's affluent Washington (D.C.) law firm, did want him to say again that he had no love for Stalin, and above all, wanted to discuss Alger Hiss. Was it true that Hiss was Assistant Secretary Acheson's right-hand man after the period when, according to Congressional spy probers, Hiss was busy in Communist espionage...
...quite true, said Acheson, that Alger Hiss "became, and he remains, my friend. I do not detract from that when I state that Alger Hiss was not my assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...
Actually, said Acheson, Berle came to him with a report that one of the Hiss brothers had "associations which would make his presence in my office embarrassing to me." But Berle couldn't say which Hiss brother, nor what the "associations" were. Acheson did, however, speak to Donald Hiss about it, and getting his reassurances, "I had complete confidence in him and the matter was closed...
...another Assistant Secretary, Adolf A. Berle Jr., but Acheson at the time was right in step with top State Department bigwigs, with Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Truman and a great many other Americans. One of Acheson's advisers was the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, Alger Hiss (brother Donald once was Acheson's executive assistant in the State Department*). When Whittaker Chambers went to Berle and linked Alger Hiss with a Washington Communist group, Berle took the report to Acheson. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee last summer, Berle testified...
...backing of dimestore hand mirrors, and carried overseas by Communist couriers. Crew members of the Hamburg-American Line helped out; later, after Hitler came to power, the films were sent via the French Line. From 1935 to 1938, Chambers had two sources in the State Department (so far only Hiss has been named publicly). At one point, four "high sources" in Washington were so productive, Chambers said, that Moscow sent them rich Bokhara rugs in appreciation...