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Your account of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss debate is a masterpiece of "bend-ing-over-backwards" fairness. Would like to shake your collective hand...
...time Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers stood up to each other in public last week, it was clear to everyone that they had known each other quite well in the mid-'30s. Those were the days when Hiss was publicly on the rise as a bright young New Dealer and Chambers was an undercover Communist agent. The point which the House Un-American Activities Committee wanted to demonstrate was that-as Chambers had testified-they had been Communists together...
...Hiss stoutly continued to deny the charge. But he had backtracked once before. He had first denied ever having known Chambers, then admitted that he knew him as "George Crosley," a freelance writer. Would the rest of his story stand up under searching examination and a public confrontation with Chambers...
Last week, with television and newsreel cameras whirring, Hiss and Chambers faced each other in the big, air-conditioned House caucus room. To Hiss, Chambers was still "George Crosley."* To Chambers, Hiss was Hiss-"the closest friend I ever had in the Communist Party...
...Alger Hiss is Mrs. Hiss's second husband. As Priscilla Hobson, she was a TIME copy chief...