Sir,-It was a pity that the reviewer of Lord Jowitt’s book The Strange Case of Alger Hiss did not mention that it
has now been withdrawn from circulation because of inaccuracies. I presume that anyone chosen by -you to review such a book would be aware of this. Among strongly critical reviews was one in the London Times Literary Supplement (May 15, 1953), a non-partisan appraisal of a disappointing book.
CONSTANT READER
(Wellington).
(We have received no word from the publishers that the English edition has been withdrawn, and the book’is at present on sale in New Zealand. According to The Bookseller, organ of the English book trade (issue of May 23), advance copies in the United States were called in because "‘some inferences drawn by Lord Jowitt from the evidence of Whittaker Chambers were not warranted by .the-- facts, and because some misunderstandings®of American legal practice had been spotted Gt the .Jast minute." The book was to. be published in ‘the United States when Lord Jowitt. had revised the relevant passages.-Ed.) |. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 735, 14 August 1953, Page 5
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