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Article: The house of Chambers ... and the assault of the local bureaucrats.(PEOPLE & PLACES)(Whittaker Chambers )(In memoriam)
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- National Review
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- August 27, 2007
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ON the night he tried to kill himself, Whittaker Chambers wrote a letter to his two children. It did not include a detailed account of the Alger Hiss spy case, which had driven Chambers to what he called "spiritual exhaustion." Instead, the letter contained simple fatherly advice: "I urged them," he said, "never to leave the land."
Chambers was thinking of Pipe Creek Farm, in Westminster, Md.--the family home since the 1930s and the site of the famous Pumpkin Papers incident. He lived to see it again: He botched the suicide and decided to continue testifying against Hiss. Eventually he would die on the farm, of natural causes. So would his wife. Their ashes were ...
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... ... s Nov. 16 obituary of Alger Hiss omits facts central to the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers controversy and misrepresents ... government} have no case." Alger Hiss's lone accuser, Whittaker Chambers, admitted in court, under oath ...
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