Evening star., 1948-08-03

the Justice Department and other
Government agencies.
He was made special assistant to
the director Of the Once of Special
Political Affairs in 1914. This ofiice
did the detail work in the State De-
partment toward formation OF the
United Nations and Mr.. Hiss served
as executive secretary at the Dunn
barton Oaks conferences here In
1914 that prepared the way for the
San Francisco conference.
Mr.. Hiss accompanied President
Roosevelt to the Yalta conference
with Soviet Prime Minister Stain
and British Prime Minister Churchill
in l945 and was made director OF
the once Of Special Political Affairs
during that year.
He resigned from the State De-
partment in January, l947. to be-
come president Of the Carnegie
peace organization.
There had been rumors then link
ing Mr.. Hiss name with Commu-
nists. Dean Acheson. then Under
secretary OF State, came to Mr.. Hiss
defense in a statement on Decem-
ber 10, 1916, in announcing that Mr.
Hiss was leaving the department.
Mr.. Acheson, not mentioning di-
rectly the charges against Mr.. Hiss,
declared then that he had served
the State Department with out
standing devotion and ability" Mr.
Acheson described his work as sec.
retary general of the San Francisco
United Nations Conference as "one
of the really basic causes for the
success of that conference"
Only Sunday night the State De
partment announced Mr.. Hiss ap.
pointment as a vice chairman O
the National Citizens Committee fol
United Nations Day to be celebrated
October "a.
Was Senate Investigator.
Committee Counsel Robert Strip
ling, quoting from Who's Who, reat
into the record that Alger Hiss alst
was an investigator for a specia
Senate committee checking the mu
nitions industry.
Mr.. Stipling said Mr.. Abt was will
the AAA from 1933-35, with th'
Works Progress Administration il
1885 and later with the La Toilette
Civil Liberties Committee and still
later a special assistant to the At.
torney General.
The counsel said the recore
showed Mr.. Pressman as assistant
general counsel of the AAA, ap.
pointed by Henry Wallace in 1888
appointed in 1885 by Harry Hop.
kins as WPA general counsel, then
named as general counsel of the
Resettlement Administration. He
later served as general counsel OF
the CIO and of the Textile Workers
Organization Committee.
Mr.. Pressman quit the CIO and
the CIO Steel Workers Union last
February to work for Mr. Wallace
and his third party. He had been
long identified with the CLOS left
wing. CIO President Philip Murray
SLdScu d SLlOWuO"Il llSllG Wltll gIiin
group and won out. Mr.. Pressman' s
resignation followed and he became
associated with Mr.. Witt, now a New
York labor lawyer.
Witt Was With NLRB.
Mr.. Witt left the Government in
January, l941. after serving as
executive secretary of the NLRB
He had ben associated with the
agency since July, 1884. For the
past four years, he has practiced
law in New York.
Mr.. Chambers told the commit
tee he came here often as paid
functionary" to act as courier
of the Communist Party between
New York and Washington. He said
he met all the persons named above
at an apartment occupied by Mr.
Collins at st. Mathews Court here
The group of leaders was organ
lied by Harold Ware, now dead
Mr.. Wares sister, Helen Ware. he
said, operated a violin studio near