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...nights later, Chambers accepted Hiss's challenge to make his charge public. On radio's Meet the Press program, he repeated his statement that Hiss had been a Communist...
Said Chambers: "I do not think Mr. Hiss will...
...Tragedy of History." Then, while Hiss took a seat among the reporters, the committee summoned Chambers to the witness chair. What had Chambers thought of Hiss's testimony? Said Chambers: "Mr. Hiss is lying." Had he ever been in a mental hospital? "I have never been treated for a mental illness-period...
Chambers was asked what motive he could have for accusing Hiss of being a Communist. Chambers' voice was close to breaking, and some of his listeners thought that he was close to tears as he answered: "The story has spread that ... I am working out some old grudge or motives of revenge or hatred. I do not hate Mr. Hiss. We were close friends, but we are caught in a tragedy of history. Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting, and I am fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity...
This week the committee issued an interim report on its work and pursued new leads. After a long hunt for him, it caught up with J. Peters, a man with a Groucho Marx likeness who, Chambers said, was the Communist underground boss who introduced him to Hiss. Confronted by Chambers and asked if he knew him, Peters refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He gave that same answer to some 30 other questions. But he did admit that he knew Earl Browder...