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Also there is Lee Pressman, who admitted membership in the Communist Party, and Alger Hiss who has since been convicted...
...Parole Board in Washington announced that it had once more considered the parole application of Perjurer Alger Hiss, again agreed to deny...
...Soviet espionage organization." Since then, 17 of the 37 have refused under oath to say whether they were Communists or spies; six have not been called to testify to the charges made by Miss Bentley and by Chambers; one, Harold Ware, died in 1935, and 13-including Alger Hiss and William Remington, now in prison for their perjury-swore that the Bentley-Chambers accusations were false. Among the more interesting cases named by Bentley and/or Chambers...
...Alger Hiss, 49, went to Washington as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, and was secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences which gave birth to the United Nations. Against this bright star of the New Deal, Whittaker Chambers made a shocking accusation: Hiss was a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to make his charges without immunity. Chambers did, and they were tested in court. Hiss is now in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg...
...Scramble. "From the Hiss case we may perhaps date the beginning not only of the excessive power and renown of many Johnny-come-lately antiCommunists, but on the other side, what might be thought of as a new united front in some liberal colleges and universities, admission to which is gained by denouncing 'witch hunts' and refusing to cooperate with them ... In some colleges, professors who testify before the Velde or Jenner committees with dignity and restraint (often educating committee members in the process, as Hiss so notably failed to do) are slandered as appeasers. To the extent...