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Conditions of Marriage. Economist Remington, testified quiet, sullen-mouthed Ann Moos Remington-looking directly at her ex-husband as he sat motionless and poker-faced at the counsel table-had been a Communist. So, she admitted, had she. Communism, in fact, had been the cement in their romance, which began in 1937 when he was a student at Dartmouth and she an undergraduate at Bennington. She told the jury that once when they were sitting in a parked automobile on the Dartmouth campus, he confided that he "was a member of the Communist Party and adjured me to secrecy...
...Remington had never been in love with him, but thought she "might grow to love him," she testified. When he proposed marriage in 1938, she said yes-on condition that "he would continue to be a Communist." She added: "He said I need not worry on that score...
...point in her testimony, Mrs. Remington paused to say that she was "a reluctant witness" against "the father of my children." She told the jury that Remington had made a determined effort to keep her quiet; last May, before she appeared before the grand jury, she said, he had suggested she get her psychoanalyst to declare her "mentally incompetent." She had refused...
...Presence. Her testimony gave the Government its first corroboration of Elizabeth Bentley's most serious charge-that Remington had delivered U.S. secrets to Courier Bentley for transmission to Russia during World War II. The biggest secret, his ex-wife said, was a formula for making explosives out of garbage. She later conceded that it might have been a formula, as Miss Bentley had testified, for making synthetic rubber...
Under sharp questioning by grey, stooped Defense Attorney William Chan-ler-who described his client as a man who had sown his "mental wild oats" in his youth but had long since reformed-she admitted that neither she nor Remington had been "orthodox Communists." They had associated with Trotskyites, had not held party cards, had paid dues only irregularly. But she stuck stoutly to her story that she had frequently been along, as driver of the car, when Elizabeth Bentley and Remington met in Washington. On such occasions, she testified, she parked in various quiet spots, heard her husband...