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This judgment will not go unchallenged; when Weinstein published an article in the New York Review of Books almost two years ago detailing some of his findings, he stirred up a row, and his book is certain to do the same. For three decades, Hiss has waged a campaign for vindication, and next month he intends to ask the courts again for a new trial on the ground that the prosecution withheld vital evidence from...
...Hiss lately has been winning new sympathizers?some as a result of his son Tony's apologia, Laughing Last, and some who look on him as Richard Nixon's first victim. Ironically, Weinstein's book also discredits Nixon's performance, demonstrating that as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, he actually fell apart at critical points during the investigation...
Before Chambers' charges of espionage cut him down, Hiss had seemed headed for a great future; some associates even thought he was a potential Secretary of State. One of the New Deal's bright young men, he worked briefly for the Agriculture Department and the Nye committee, which was investigating the arms manufacturers of World War I, and then joined the State Department. In the 1940s he rose almost effortlessly as a protege of Secretary Edward Stettinius and his deputy, Dean Acheson, serving as an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta conference and as Secretary-General of the founding...
Eighteen months later, Chambers (then a senior editor of TIME) told HUAC that Hiss was a Communist. Not so, said Hiss, who also insisted that he had never known Chambers. But Chambers knew so many details about Hiss's life?including the fact that Hiss, an amateur ornithologist, had once spotted a rare prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac?that his adversary was finally forced to reverse himself. Then Chambers made a more serious accusation: that Hiss had passed State Department secrets to him in the late 1930s...
...When did Hiss meet Chambers? Hiss initially agreed with Chambers that they met in 1934, then switched to a January 1935 date. But Radical Novelist Josephine Herbst told Hiss's lawyers that Chambers began trying to recruit Hiss for undercover work in July or August...