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...copies were an indictment based specifically on the two questions and the two answers given by Hiss late that afternoon. Behind the two questions lay weeks of effort to get at the salient question: Who was lying when Chambers stated and Hiss denied that Hiss had been a spy in the service of the Soviet...
...indictment read: "Alger Hiss . . . having duly taken an oath . . . did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully and contrary to said oath, state material matters which he did not believe to be true." There was no indictment against Chambers. One chapter of an abysmal story had come...
...Would Be Inhuman." The next morning, dressed in pajamas, trailed by his son, Tony, 7, Hiss opened the door of his Manhattan apartment at 22 East Eighth Street. He stared out at a batch of newsmen. Tony asked his father: "Who are all these men? Why do they keep coming?" Said his father, "I wish I could explain...
...Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again in Judge Clancy's courtroom. His debonair manner had vanished. His boyish face was a bleak, set mask. He was charged, he was told, with perjury. How did he plead? "I plead not guilty to both counts," he said...
...snow of the day before had turned into a driving rain. Hiss, the $20,000-a-year president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, walked through the rain to a subway, pursued by photographers, and rode back to his apartment on Eighth Street. There his Quaker wife, Priscilla, who was also implicated by Chambers in the tragic conspiracy, waited...