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I 4M PROUD 20 PLEAD "GUILTY" TO TRE CHAROF! 4n4é I will add that thereby, I HAVE REFUSZD TO BAKS OF MYSELF AN ACCESSORY TO THE CRIMES OF HISS! z mo only wish that you, ahd Truimeng hd Acheson--and innumerable other mis-laboled "liberals"--gould say the seme: BUT YOU CAN NOT) In your oolwm of Jamary 26, 1950, you rewarked thet "Whittaker Chambers, as I understand it, has confessed to all the sins of which he acoused Mr. Hiss, including per- jury." Can you BAY AS MUCH FoR RIést? While this letter is already long, I cannot refrain from enlightening you as to my reasons for criticising the former President for having fniled to pardon Hies. In vier of his camaign of vilification and faleehocds in the 1948 dattle--which even then was won only by an extremely narror margin BECAUSE A FE THOUSAND VOTERS COULD ROT BELIEVE THE P IDENT WOULD RELY UPON FALS= STATBINITS TO WIN A RETURN ® THE WHITE HOUSE--Truman had two alternatives confronting him when Hiss was convicted, if he was AN HONORABLE MAH, Piret, he could apologize abjectly to his fellow Americans for having won the election by reprehensibly and A4nexcusabdly vicious means--for having provided the Kremlin @uring his campaign with invaluable raterisl for propagende Z purposes, to this Nation's lasting detriment: ani tendered ° his resignation. S8eoond, if he had believed what he had sc many times shouted wehemently at every opportunity as to the “red herring" character of the investigation of Hies, he should have issued iamediately ea Presidential pardon for the traitor--in which cease, bis resignation would quite probably and properly have been delivered to him without delay by Congress! Of course, in view of the wastly dif- ferent definition of the word, “honor” in the Penderg-st dictionary and that used in our schoolg and colleges, as Well as elsewhere, it was not to be hoped that Truman would act upon either of the alternstives outlined. As he said after the Hiss conviction--erronsously--to the reporters who in the line of dity asked for bis couments as to the Hiss finale, "fhe case is closed PERIOD!" To the Giscomfiture of that vain littic men, ke rill very probably live to see historians of visicn and ecmpet- ence refer to him as “the most efficient ton) ever to cor: Snto the hands of the Reds, ty the uss of which thelr tcek | of establishing spy rings in America was mede far enelier-- and the most disreputable high official of the Governmert ever to pollute the atmosphers of Washington!" You stated in your letter that you “regretted that we had reached a stage where . . we doubted anyone whe was ras Ci rs rooe ee news . . eee a we ee ee ee