Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-25
Partial Text of Hiss Letter

Partial Text OF
FOLLOWING is partial teri Of a
letter Alger Hiss sent to Chair
man Thomas OF the House Conn
mittee ON Un-Americon Activities
late yesterday:
Tomorrow will mark my fourth
appearance before your committee
J. urge, in advance of that hearing
that your committee delay no long
er in penetrating to the bedrock o.
the facts relevant to the charge
which you have publicized-t that
am or have been a Communist.
This charge goes beyond the per
sonal. Attempts will be made tt
use 1t, and the resulting publicity, t.
discredit recent great achievement!
of this country in which I vas priv
LEGGED to participate.
Certain members OF your com.
mittee have already demonstrated
that this use Of your hearings ane
the ensuing publicity is not mer,
possibility, it is a reality Your act.
ing chairman himself vas trigger.
quick to cast such diSredit. Be.
fore I had a chance to testify, ever
before the press had chance tt
reach me for comment before vol
had sought one single fact to sup
port the charge made ~ self con.
fessed liar, spy and traitor, YOU
acting chairman profounced judg.
ment that I am guilty as charged
by stating that the country should
beware of the pece work with
which I have been|connected.
! urge that these committee mem
hers abandon suh verdict-first-
nd-testimony- latf tactics, along
with dramatic cofrontations in Sc
cret sessions, andeet down to bust
ness.
Urges StuE Of Record.
First, my redrd should be ex
plored.
During the erlOd cited by TIL!
accuser I was thief counsel to thu
Senate Committee Investigating thu
Munitions Inqstry =. During
nv term of sSvice under the Solici.
tor General 4 the United States
participated in the preparation O.
briefs IN feat many of the larg.
est Issues affecting the United
States Tfbse briefs are on public
file
Asan tficial Of the State De.
partpent was appointed secretary
geneal, tle top administrative of
ficer of the building interna'
toni assembly that created tn.
Uned Nations. My actions in tina
DOS are a matter of detailed public
reerd. The same is true of m!
acons at other peace-building ant
pee strengthening internationa
netings in which I participated
a Dumbarton Oaks and elseWher'
this country, at Malta, at Yalta
London and in other foreigl
ties. All my actions in the execu
We branch of the Government, in
luding my work in the AAA OF
arm problems, are fully recorde'
IN the public records.
In all this work I was frequently
and for extensive periods, under tn
eye Of the American press and o
the statesmen under whom or II
association with whom I worked
- They knew my every act re
lating to official business, both il
public and in executive conference
Lists Former Associates.
Here is a list Of the living per
sonaees of recognized stature unde
whom or in association with whom
I worked in the Government:
!. Men now in the United State
Senate-Vandenberg.
2. Men now in the House OF Rep
resentatives-Representatives Bloom
and Eaton.
3. Former Secretaries OF State
Cordell Hull. Edward Stettiniu
and James Byrnes.
4. Former Undersecretaries o.
State-Joseph Grew, Dean Achesor
and William Clayton.
S. United States judges-Stanle!
Reed. Homer Bone, Bennett Clari
and Jerome Frank.
6. Men formerly in Congress
Former Senators Nye, Pope ant
Townsend.
7. Men at international conference
where I assisted their labors to buil'
the peace-Isaiah Bowman. Johl
Foster Dulles, 1t. Gen. Stanle,
Embick, Charles Fahy, Gen. eMui
Fairchild. Henry Fletcher, Greer
Hackworth, Admiral Arthur Hep
burn, Stanley Hornbeck, Breckin
ridge Long, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Harold Stassen, Rear Admiral Harol,
Train, Frank Walker and Edwin
Wilson.
8. Other superiors to whom re
ported - Chester Davis, Franci
Sayre.
Role Was Not Insignificant.
These are the men whom I wa
honored to help in carrying out tn,
finest and deepest American tradi
tons. That is my record. I, toe
have had not insignificant rol
in the magnificent achievements o
our Nation in recent times.
These men I have listed are tn,
men with whom and under whom
worked intimately during my L