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...False Witness" [Feb. 14]: it's nice to feel that our nation has at least three patriots, in Herbert Philbrick, Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, whose anti-Communist testimony is consistently reliable...
...witnesses against the Communists have included such young patriots as Herbert Philbrick. persuaded by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party at great personal sacrifice, and such tortured souls as Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. Inevitably, the witnesses have also included a few prize phonies, interested only in the fast dollar and the big headline. Last week the biggest phony of them all, Harvey Marshall Matusow, a Communist who turned professional antiCommunist, and is now headed full circle, faced the press in room 108 of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
There has come to my attention a copy of a letter addressed to you from Herbert A. Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a touch than one likes to see. This is said not by way of criticism--even Swift produced some lemons in his time--but as explanation of the possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because...
...expect that none of these arguments will persuade Mr. Philbrick especially that the clergy support of the question. According to Mr. Philbrick, not long ago there are six, seven, or eight Communist clergymen in the Boston area. After making these charges in "secret" testimony-- it was headline news the next day--Philbrick went on to point out that he had no "legal" evidence, a point which the papers didn't find much use for. These people turned out to be such names as the Rev. Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological Seminary, the Rev. Kenneth DePew Hughes of St. Bartholomew...
...would be a joy if Mr. Philbrick would become responsible enough to keep at his own work. He would be the first to claim that religion is what the Western Nations have that the Communist countries do not have. But when he interferes with the work of religious forces by attempting to impose his own impetuous misrepresentation, he is merely undermining the freedoms he claims to preserve. It would seem to this observer that he is either miffed by the FOR or must struggle to keep his trade going now that world tension is relaxing. Alan F. Sawyer...