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'''Archibald MacLeish''' (1892-1982) was an [[American]] poet, Librarian of [[Congress]], and a noted [[fellow traveller]].<ref>David Caute, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ6YqBm3O2wC The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism]'' [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988] ISBN 0300041950, p. 185</ref>
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'''Archibald MacLeish''' (1892–1982) was an [[American]] poet, Librarian of [[Congress]], and a noted [[fellow traveller]].<ref>David Caute, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=zZ6YqBm3O2wC The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism]'' [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988] ISBN 0300041950, p. 185</ref>
    
MacLeish was born in 1892, the son of a prosperous [[Chicago]] department store executive, and spent his childhood on a seventeen-acre estate on Lake Michigan.<ref>David Barber, “[http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/macleish/life.htm Archibald MacLeish's Life and Career],” Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</ref> He attended [[Yale University]], where he was a member of Skull & Bones and a classmate of [[Dean Acheson]], with whom he moved on in 1915 to [[Harvard Law School]], where he became a protegé of [[Felix Frankfurter]].
 
MacLeish was born in 1892, the son of a prosperous [[Chicago]] department store executive, and spent his childhood on a seventeen-acre estate on Lake Michigan.<ref>David Barber, “[http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/macleish/life.htm Archibald MacLeish's Life and Career],” Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</ref> He attended [[Yale University]], where he was a member of Skull & Bones and a classmate of [[Dean Acheson]], with whom he moved on in 1915 to [[Harvard Law School]], where he became a protegé of [[Felix Frankfurter]].
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==Hiss and the U.N.==
 
==Hiss and the U.N.==
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After the war, MacLeish served with Hiss on the U.S. delegation drafting the [[United Nations Charter]]<ref>[https://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml Charter]</ref>. The official assigned by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (predecessor of the CIA) to record the drafting of that document would later say MacLeish "kicked me out" of the session.<ref>[https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf Oliver Lundquist Interview], United Nations Oral History Project, Yale University, 1990</ref> [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] appointed MacLeish chairman of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of [[UNESCO]].
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After the war, MacLeish served with Hiss on the U.S. delegation drafting the [[United Nations Charter]].<ref>[https://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml Charter]</ref> The official assigned by the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (predecessor of the CIA) to record the drafting of that document would later say MacLeish "kicked me out" of the session.<ref>[https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf Oliver Lundquist Interview], United Nations Oral History Project, Yale University, 1990</ref> [[Secretary of State]] [[Dean Acheson]] appointed MacLeish chairman of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of [[UNESCO]].
    
==Celebrating Stalinists and condemning defectors==
 
==Celebrating Stalinists and condemning defectors==
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