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Article: The Shadow of Alger Hiss: NEW YORK CITY, 1946.(Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a spy)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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NEW YORK CITY, 1946: Hiss's accuser, Whittaker Chambers, may have been vindicated by history, but he, too, was a polarizing figure-a hero to the right and a villain to the left, as Henry Grunwald remembers.
When i was a young writer at time magazine right after the war, Whittaker Chambers was my editor. Every now and then, he made allusions or dropped hints about people he had known in the Communist Party. Once, long before the case broke, I wandered into his office, and he looked up from a newspaper. "Alger Hiss," he said, pointing to a story he had been reading. It referred to some news that Hiss had made in his role as general secretary of the United Nations' ...