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Chambers said he regretted that public attention had concentrated on what amounted to "a kind of duel between two men," meaning himself and Alger Hiss, the ex-State Department official he named as a fellow conspirator in Communist espionage. Said he: "The most important thing for everyone to understand is the duration and the dimension of the conspiracy rather than the characters of the persons involved or what seem to be the chief protagonists...
...TIME of Dec. 13 . . . after stating that Whittaker Chambers produced certain papers during the course of depositions taken by me as attorney for Alger Hiss...
...word "secretly" might give rise to the inference that I acted without the knowledge of my clients . . . It was with the full knowledge and unqualified approval of Mr. Hiss that I brought these papers to the attention of the Department of Justice, after first having notified counsel for Mr. Chambers of my intention to do so and after having obtained the approval of Judge Chesnut...
...solid evidence that Duggan had had knowing contact with Communist espionage. There were indications that he had been friendly with a former State Department official named Noel Field, identified last summer in testimony by Chambers as a member of a Communist apparatus. The New York Daily News quoted Alger Hiss as saying that Duggan was a very good friend of his and that he was a "victim of persecution." Hiss later denied having made the statement...
Whittaker Chambers showed no elation at the turn of events. "I would be inhuman," he told reporters, "if I could take any pleasure in Mr. Hiss's personal troubles."† The new grand jury had taken over. As its first act, it summoned Chambers to go on telling his story...