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Article: Strange case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.
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- Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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THE Hiss-Chambers case has haunted American liberalism for over fifty years now. The known facts are as follows. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss (then head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) of having once been a communist spy; Chambers admitted having been a courier for the Soviet Union, and alleged that while working at the State Department in the 1930s Hiss had passed classified documents to him for transmission to the Russians. At first Chambers, who appeared to have emerged from the political gutter, looked implausible as an accuser, while Hiss was a secure member of the establishment, a New Dealer who had the trust and respect of people ...
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