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...president of the American Bar Association, and J. Edward Lumbard, one of General Donovan's partners. The statement issued by Stevenson's defenders, said the 16, was "inaccurate and unsound" because it gave the impression that Stevenson was required by court order to testify in the Hiss trial. "That was not the fact," declared the 16. "Governor Stevenson was not under subpoena or otherwise required to testify ... The only reason that a court order of any kind was obtained was to permit Governor Stevenson to testify without attending the Hiss trial in person. In passing judgment on Governor...
Stevenson's testimony, said the lawyers, showed on the face of it that he did not know Hiss well. "It might well have occurred to the governor," they went on, "that his testimony was not being sought because he was peculiarly expert on the character or reputation of Hiss ... As a lawyer, he should have been aware that his testimony as a voluntary witness on behalf of Hiss might have been construed by the jury as implying a belief in Hiss's innocence by the governor of Illinois...
Mistrust & Innuendo. In his Cleveland speech, Stevenson also attempted to turn the tables on his opponents. He began with Ike's foreign policy adviser John Foster Dulles. "In December 1946," said Stevenson, "Hiss was chosen to be president of the Carnegie Endowment by the board of trustees, of which John Foster Dulles was chairman." Shortly thereafter, said the governor, Dulles refused to believe a Detroit lawyer who informed him that Hiss had a provable Communist record...
...members of the Carnegie Endowment board during Hiss's term as president, Stevenson went on, was General Eisenhower-and Eisenhower was still a member of the board when it twice refused to let Hiss resign after he had been indicted for perjury. Said Stevenson: "I bring these facts to the American people not to suggest that either General Eisenhower or John Foster Dulles is soft toward Communists ... I bring them out only to make the point that the mistrust, the innuendoes, the accusations which this [Republican] 'crusade' is employing threatens not merely themselves, but the integrity...
Said Dulles in reply: "I became a witness for the prosecution against Hiss ... I do not criticize Governor Stevenson for responding to the dictates of his conscience. I merely point out that his faith in Hiss outlasted mine . . .Also, Governor Stevenson was misinformed when he said that I was chairman of the Carnegie Endowment board when Hiss was elected president. That is not true. I was elected chairman at the same meeting at which Hiss was elected president...