THE HISS CASE
Sir,-Your reviewer of Earl Jowitt’s The Strange Case of Alger Hiss calls it "a. dispassionate book of comment," and says that "the commentator’s credentials inspire confidence." Both these statements challenge a reply. Informed -+eviewers of the book nearly all attack it unmercifully. In particular The Spectator’s American expert D. W. Brogan shows in an unanswerable article that the noble law Lord, is but a babe in his conception of Communism, and that his whole book is based on the improbability of a man’s allegiance being given to Moscow in preference to his own country. Furthermore, the author’s comments .on the evidence would at once suggest what is a fact, that he. had in the course of his career little to do with the Criminal Courts. Such a book, attacking the decision of the courts of dur friendliest nation, is to be regretted: Coming as it does from a source that inspires the uninformed with confidence, it is to be utterly deplored.
BARRISTER
(Invercargill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5
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166THE HISS CASE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5
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