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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5

Sir-In his review of The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, by the Earl Jowitt, your reviewer lays stress on the confidence inspired by the author’s methods and credentials. Time magazine of May 25, 1953, reported that reviewers’ copies of the American edition of this book and some 5000 copies already in bookstalls were recalled by the publishers. The firm’s president stated that "a serious inadvertent factual error’ had been discovered in the book, and admitted that most serious was Jowitt’s "misunderstanding the complicated time sequence in Whittaker Chambers’s book, Witness (and), a misinterpretation of the Hiss trial testimony.’ He promised the book would be published in the U.S.A. when these had been corrected. /It would ‘seem from the report that the English edition is uncorrected. since Time goes on to quote, from her review of the English edition in the ‘London Sunday Times, Rebecca West’s disapproving comments on Lord. Jowitt’s misunderstanding of the time of occurtence of certain events. I take this to be the "complicated time sequence" referred to above, but I would be interested to have confirmed my impression that the English edition is identical with that recalled in America,

D.E.

H.

(Dunedin) _