Alger Hiss: Recollections of a Life

Alger Hiss had the prime example of a good life as the law clerk to Oliver Wendell Holmes, and a key part of the founding of the United Nations, a graduate of Harvard, and served in the State Department during WWII. Then, in 1948, that liar Whittaker Chambers falsely accused him of being a Communist spy. He was vindicated in 1992 and died in 1996, after serving a prison term for perjury. Perjury is a far cry from espionage. It has been proven that Chambers lied to save his own skin, like Ethel Rosenberg's brother's lies which ended in the execution of both Ethel and her husband, Julius, at Sing-Sing. Alger had led a charmed life until this accusation which destroyed his fantastic career. He was on speaking terms with Felix Frankfurter, Winston Churchill, Roosevelt and H. G. Wells. A grave injustice was done to this brilliant American, and I feel that it is time to 'right a wrong.'