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C-SPAN 3 airs “Cold War Era Spies” with new insight into the spy activities of Whittaker Chambers in the early 1930s, before the Hiss Case.
Apr 27, 2014 | 6:30pm EDT | C-SPAN 3 Apr 27, 2014 | […]
[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. […]
Sixty years ago today, Whittaker Chambers published an article “The Bombing of Monte Cassino” about the Benedictine Cassino Monastery — as vivid now as then.
Relive the moment by clicking here to read “The Bombing of Monte Cassino.”
The Hiss Case nosed its way into popular culture via Hollywood in shorts like “Dunked in the Deep” (1949) with the Three Stooges and in Alfred Hitchcock‘s spy-romance-thriller North By Northwest (1959), featuring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
(Do you know of other instances?)
[…]
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 […]
Sixty-nine years ago today, TIME magazine published a controversial article edited by its then Foreign News desk editor, Whittaker Chambers. It analyzed the recall of U.S. general Stilwell from China as head of the Chinese nationalist army.
Chambers’ assessment of the situation was blunt:
Stripped to the bare facts, 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 […]
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