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...whole episode had ended unpleasantly a few months later, Hiss concluded. Crosley had never paid any rent and Hiss had broken off with him. Since then, he had never seen Crosley again and at no time did he know that Crosley was a Communist. He remembered him only as a deep-voiced man with bad teeth...
Poor Moods. Reading over the testimony that night, Nixon decided that Crosley and Whittaker Chambers must be the same man. Next morning a subcommittee decided on an immediate face-to-face meeting between Chambers and Alger Hiss. They hurriedly telephoned both to meet the subcommittee that afternoon in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel...
Accompanied by a committee investigator, Chambers was led to one room of Suite 1400 in the Commodore. Alger Hiss arrived in the suite's other room at 5:38. He was in a bitter mood. He had been forced to cancel a dinner date; he was furious because the discussion of a lie detector test (which Hiss later refused to take) had leaked out after the secret committee hearings; he was distressed because of the death of Harry White (see below). Said he: "I'm not sure I'm, in the best possible mood for testimony...
...door opened and Chambers walked in. "Mr. Hiss," said Nixon, "the man standing here is Whittaker Chambers. I ask you now if you have ever known that man before...
...Hiss stood confronting Chambers, his face angry and set. He asked Chambers to talk. Chambers began: "My name is Whittaker Chambers . . ." While Chambers went on, finally reading from an old copy of Newsweek, Hiss walked slowly over to him, examined him from every side, asked him to open his mouth wider. Hiss looked hard at Chambers' teeth. He asked: "Are you George Crosley?" Chambers quietly replied: "Not to my knowledge." He remarked that Chambers' voice seemed less resonant than Crosley's, that his teeth were less stained. But when Chambers explained that he had been fitted...