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Ever-rabid in its denunciation of Senator McCarthy's witch hunts, the Americans for Democratic Action has recently assumed its own air of inquisitorial self-righteousness. Last week the national headquarters intervened to prevent Alger Hiss from speaking at the Swarthmore chapter of the ADA. Since the national organization gave no other grounds for its authoritarian behavior, its action obviously represents an attempt to raise a facade of political respectability...
...affair, like the Hiss case, raised the momentous question: What could bring intelligent and apparently devoted servants of the state to defect to the enemy...
...defects of writing, this book should be set beside Ralph de Toledano's account of the Hiss case, Humphrey Slater's Conspirator, and Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason. It is debatable just how "true" Llewellyn's analysis is. But there is no doubt that Mr. Hamish Gleave points to a serious troubling in Britain's soul. And it again raises the haunting questions which the official report put this way: "First, how Maclean and Burgess remained in the Foreign Service for so long, and second, why they were able to get away...
...that universality was not the basic assumption of the founders of the U.N. if we accept the Charter as an authoritative source. If we can't accept the Charter as an expression of the desires of the founders, whose word can we accept? The word of Alger Hiss, who has been convicted of lying under oath...
...letter to Cabot, Ginn replied "If great achievements are to be the criteria for appointment despite mistakes in judgment (even in a matter of espionage), why not select Alger Hiss and Richard Whitney to serve on the corporation...