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...Your review of the book on Chambers and Hiss [Feb. 10] is, TIME-wise, strangely unruffled. You appear to rest your case on the tushery that dead men shouldn't be slandered, ho hum, as if TIME had grown big and strong on Confucianist milk. Why not work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely...
FRIENDSHIP AND FRATRICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS & ALGER HISS by Meyer A. Zeligs, M.D. 476 pages. Viking...
...whole new generation, the Hiss-Chambers case is only a dim memory or a hearsay mystery, but it retains its historical significance and fascination. If one assumes that Hiss was guilty, his behavior made perfect sense; by his denial of the charges against him, he was trying to hide his Communist past. But if one assumes that Hiss was innocent, the behavior of his accuser, Whittaker Chambers, made no sense at all; what could his motive have been for accusing an innocent man? The only plausible answer: he must have been mad. From the start, people who could not accept...
...federal jury found Hiss guilty of lying when he denied having passed state secrets to Chambers, who had been a Communist spy. San Francisco's Dr. Meyer A. Zeligs asserts that he is not concerned with anyone's guilt or innocence. But he admits that "whatever imbalance" the book contains he has "carefully left untouched." That is putting it mildly. Zeligs has, in effect, undertaken to rewrite Chambers' autobiography, Witness, and reshape its author to fit a Procrustean bed of neuroses. To a more casual reader, Witness, while a little Wagnerian in style, presents the picture...
...wild, leching lad who committed suicide at 22. Chambers' whole life, to hear Zeligs tell it, became a search for a mystical brother whom he could force to re-enact a ritual death pact. The consummation of that search was the symbolic destruction of his "mystical brother," Alger Hiss...