A reviewer argues with author Mark A. Bradley that American spy Duncan Chaplin Lee
Seventy-five years ago today, in the early hours of September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler‘s Wehrmacht began its Blitzkrieg on Poland when the dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired on Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. The invasion of Poland had begun, […]
[Arnold Deutsch, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt – Daily Telegraph]
The London Review of Books has published this comment on Inigo Thomas‘s piece, “High Priestess of Anti-Communism“:
Mr. […]
British writer Doris Lessing died in London today, aged 94. She had become a communist in the 1940s about the time she married Gottfried Lessing but had abandoned such ideas by 1949.
In 1992, Lessing wrote and lectured about “Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism.” A brief of that […]
Whittaker Chambers died 52 years ago today: reprinted here is TIME magazine’s obituary for its former senior editor, “Historical Notes: Death of the Witness
TIME’s March 5, 1945, edition carried something unusual in its pages: a “political fairy story” called “The Ghosts on the Roof” — most recently cited as a top piece in Time: 85 Years of Great Writing (2008).
Seven ghosts settle on the roof of the Livadia Palace […]
[Whittaker Chambers, circa 1920s]
The website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has recounted the conviction of Alger Hiss 63 years ago this month in its blog “A Byte Out of History.”
It characterizes the 18-month ordeal by stating, “The central issue of the trial was espionage.”
The […]
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