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Alger Hiss, former holder of several Federal posts, sued Whittaker Chambers for $50,000 slander and libel damages in Baltimore yesterday. Hiss charged that the Time editor's statements about his alleged Communist Party membership were false. In Washington, the House Un-American Activities Committee urged spy trials for four persons, including two atomic bomb scientists...
...Cruelest Weapon. During the war, Kay got to Washington. Some of the things she saw there (orange juice and fresh vegetables) she liked. But other things she did not like. Some Army wives she met "left a bad taste in my memory." She was "hurt, then angered at the slander of WACs overseas . . . How, I wondered, how could these Washington gossips . . . lump all overseas service women into one dirty group and then jab it with woman's crudest weapon against woman: moral slander? I was even more upset at learning my own reputation was lost. I was a foreign...
...fire under him. The Washington Post, which had been sharply critical of the committee's inquiry and methods, reminded Hiss that a week had passed since Chambers had accepted Hiss's challenge and repeated his accusations at a time and place where he could be sued for slander...
Said the Post: "As yet, no formal action to initiate a suit for slander has publicly been taken by Mr. Hiss . . . Mr. Hiss himself has created a situation in which he is obliged to put up or shut up ... Mr. Hiss has left himself no alternative. And each day of delay in making it known that he will avail himself of the opportunity Mr. Chambers has accorded him does incalculable damage to his reputation...
...some angry counter-questions of his own. He wanted the committee to ask Chambers if he had ever been treated for a mental illness. He also dared Chambers to come out from behind the shield of congressional immunity, and make his accusations again, so that Hiss could sue for slander or libel...