Show Round Merry-Go-Round Quirk o of Wallace Wallace- Spared HissIn Hiss His HissIn SIn In Leftist Purge By Drew Pearson V WASHINGTON By WASHINGTON By a queer quirk of fate Henry Wallace Vallace when secretary Of at agriculture fired ired a group of ot liberal j e em because some of them were i au-i too left len But thou though gh i in t l i group Wallace Vallace did not fire Alger Hiss HIB tun the charged by Whittaker Chambers wi with i ing out ut secre secret state department document to a Communist agent 4 Hiss was assistant counsel for Wallac Walla ce to agricultural adjustment administration on uit had written an opinion that triple-A triple ben 41 fit payments for curtailing the cotton wS e a u c r should go to sharecroppers as well as II too f to landlords This caused a lot of or criticism tf the south k kOther Other clashes of opinion occurred 1 tween triple-A triple lawyers and top agric b tural department executives regarding th thi milk-marketing milk code and the pac meat meat packer meat code Some of the young A AAA A A attorney ng C and consumer representatives were g ous in opposing both Wallace Vallace a and nd Cheater Cheatt I Davis then A AAA A A administrator In the end Wallace Vallace sided with the M bt southern cotton men and fired most of or th the rebels 5 i Among those purged were Gardn Jackson so hated by the Communists CommunIst that I he was b beaten aten up in New York by a co Com agent also Fred Howe Hove a Woodrow Wilson Democrat and Frank Shea who later later occupied a position of ot i importance la is the thc justice department But Hiss was vu not purged even e though he wrote the share ahara croppers' croppers opinion j However he was subjected to such criticism crit cism by his associates for remaining on the job that his old friend Felix Frankfurter now supreme court justice then professor t at the Harvard law school telephoned Gardner Gard Gardner ner Jackson asking that the critics lay o oft i Hiss had been a of and had been recommended by him for fora i job in Washington j Ij Revelation About Revelation About a month month later Hiss transferred briefly to the ju Jo jW tice department then to the state depart deput ment where he served under Francis S Sayre assistant secretary of state Sayre had hada b betre betrea q qa a professor at Harvard law school when wheat Hiss was a student there Many of ot the si it- it cret documents which have turned up tat la lathe the possession of Whittaker Chambers the ex-Communist ex agent were marked as from the office of Assistant Secretary of ot SUte Stet Sayre I When Igor tho the Soviet code clerk in Canada exposed the American spy ring to Canadian authorities he revealed that one Soviet So contact wU either an assistant secretary of state oi or of oran an assistant to an assistant secretary Hiss was Investigated at that time There was nothing conclusive about Goo Goo- zenko's identification however and Ks Hs was permitted to resign It was two yean yeah later that he was named by Chambers Chamber u one of the contact men for the ring in Washington Round Merry Presidential Insiders l' l are convinced that the man President Truman Tru man ultimately wants as secretary of state is Chief Justice Fred Vinson Presided Truman is still having trouble finding clothes and other things after they wert Weser moved across Pennsylvania avenue to tie tt th temporary White House Its what al' al a happens he said the other da day someone else does the moving for tor you Warren Austin much-loved much American 1 gate to the United Nations who has just j undergone a serious operation will by January Mme Chiang shek Kai has f asked Secretary Marshall to increase I tary and economic aid to China by about ten times In return Mme Chiang nays 11 V the Chinese are willing to have their government gOY gor- and army run by American adi lock lock stock and barrel An aco acci dental leak from the now reveals rt- rt that Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia don doe crossed ble Moscow once before Its It's now now disclosed that Tito was sent by Moscow to Yugoslavia in 1911 1941 as a contact man only with strict orders not to try for any of ot the top jobs in postwar Yugoslavia ia However Tito ignored orders and presented Mo Moscow cOif with an accomplished fact just ashe as he nu lw now There is a standing Kremlin order to knock off Tito at the first opportunity hUt Copyright 1918 1948 Bell Syndicate |