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Herbst's behavior in connection with the Hiss-Chambers case further demonstrates her growing inability to discern truth. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of having been a fellow spy in the Communist underground. Herbst was privy to information that partly substantiated Chambers' claim. In fact, as this book discloses, Herbst's husband, in his role as aide to the party's chief recruiter of agents in Washington, first introduced Chambers and Hiss...
...repeatedly lied to FBI investigators. At the same time, she solicited a meeting with attorneys for Hiss in the hope of giving aid and support. The encounter was a disaster. The lawyers were appalled by Herbst's offhand attitude about espionage. In their notes they observed that she had "no real concern about people working for the Government, taking papers and supplying information surreptitiously to the Communist Party." Later Herbst confided to a friend, "The Hiss case was handled wrongly....as indeed I suggested to his lawyers all along. He should have been more frank... Admitting smaller things would...
...deserves this fidelity. Is TartufFe an obvious rogue and Orgon therefore a buffoon who should know better? Or does Tartuffe maintain at least a hint of plausible sincerity? The latter approach enhances the play's tragic and cautionary dimensions; the former affords broader comedy and a villain to hiss...
...said, "Those of you who wronged Andy Young need to say, 'I'm sorry.' " She also was booed. Later, Jackson scolded the black delegates. "It is a source of embarrassment to me for those of you who respect me and my leadership to boo or hiss any black leader," he said. Looking at King, his eyes now tearful too, he added, "She deserves to be heard...
...outset of Perjury, his exhaustive 1978 study of the Hiss-Chambers case (which concluded that Hiss was guilty), Historian Allen Weinstein cautions that the story's fantastic elements "might be better served by the attentions of a perceptive novelist." By the end of Concealed Enemies, the TV viewer may agree. -By Richard Zoglin