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A GENERATION ON TRIAL.

Authors :
Cooke, Alistair
Source :
New Republic; 7/4/49, Vol. 121 Issue 1, p10-11, 2p
Publication Year :
1949

Abstract

Comments on the Alger Hiss trial, in which Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was accused of infiltration in the U.S. government. Statement that Charles F. Darlington, an assistant chief of the trade-agreements section of the State Department, was the most conspicuous victim of the first procedure; Proof of Hisses residence essential for the second indictment; Opinion on the conventions that put any trial in a certain emotional frame even harder for the jury to eschew emotion, prejudice, bias, sympathy; Impact of the verdict of the trial on the life of Hiss and others charged in the trial.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00286583
Volume :
121
Issue :
1
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
New Republic
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
14606271