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Whittaker Chambers' last word on the Hiss case was printed in 1959 by the right-wing National Review, for which he worked briefly as an editor. Alger Hiss, declared Chambers, had not paid his penalty "except in the shallowest legalistic sense. There is only one possible payment, as I see it, in his case. It is to speak the truth. Hiss's defiance perpetuates and keeps a fracture in the community as a whole...
State Legislatures sometimes represent democracy at its shallowest, its most corrupt. (In Missouri, two years ago, a member offered to sell his vote for a $35 suit, with two pairs of pants.) But in wrestling with the great & small problems which the Constitution reserved to the States, the thousands of men & women under the capitol domes debate the issues that cut closest to U.S. homes...
...little country (54,300 sq. mi., about the size of Wisconsin) is divided in three belts, paralleling the coast-a low, marshy, unnavigable shore line, where only the shallowest boats can go; a strip of savanna, sparsely wooded and creek-ribbed; a little-known, hill-&-mountain interior...
...first floor. These are very large and complete, accommodations for thirty men being provided. Connected with them is a splendid cold water swimming tank. It is the finest thing in the whole building, and is 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 13 feet deep at the shallowest point...