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By 1948 Berle, ousted from the State Department, would be serving as chairman of New York's Liberal Party. That year, the New York bureau of the ''Christian Science Monitor'' would send a teletype to the home office in Boston, relating a background interview with the party's publicity director, Arnold Beichman:

By 1948 Berle, ousted from the State Department, would be serving as chairman of New York's Liberal Party. That year, the New York bureau of the ''Christian Science Monitor'' would send a teletype to the home office in Boston, relating a background interview with the party's publicity director, Arnold Beichman:

{{cquote|From a thoroughly reliable contact: According to this informant Berle has said privately that classified material which Hiss was handling was reaching the Russians. It was coded stuff. Berle took the handling out of Hiss' hands and the leaks stopped.<ref>Ralph de Toledano, “[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238 Embarrassment aided and abetted the Top Soviet spy - Alger Hiss],” ''Insight on the News'', January 27, 1997</ref>}}

{{cquote|From a thoroughly reliable contact: According to this informant Berle has said privately that classified material which Hiss was handling was reaching the Russians. It was coded stuff. Berle took the handling out of Hiss' hands and the leaks stopped.<ref>Ralph de Toledano, “[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238 Embarrassment aided and abetted the Top Soviet spy - Alger Hiss],” ''Insight on the News'', January 27, 1997</ref>}}

Shortly thereafter, Berle was ousted as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, defeated by the State Department's pro-Soviet faction, Hiss prominent among them. As Berle put it:

But in the wake of Dumbarton Oaks, Berle was ousted as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, defeated by the State Department's pro-Soviet faction, Hiss prominent among them. As Berle put it:

{{cquote|[I]n the fall of 1944 there was a difference of opinion in the State Department. I felt the Russians were not going to be sympathetic and cooperative.... I was pressing for a pretty clean-cut showdown then while our position was strongest. The opposite group... in the State Department was largely... [[Dean Acheson|Mr. Acheson]]’s group, with Mr. Hiss his principal assistant in the matter.... I got trimmed in that fight, and, as a result, went to Brazil, and that ended my diplomatic career.<ref>M. Stanton Evans, "[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=453 McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America]," ''Human Events'', May 30, 1997</ref>}}

{{cquote|[I]n the fall of 1944 there was a difference of opinion in the State Department. I felt the Russians were not going to be sympathetic and cooperative.... I was pressing for a pretty clean-cut showdown then while our position was strongest. The opposite group... in the State Department was largely... [[Dean Acheson|Mr. Acheson]]’s group, with Mr. Hiss his principal assistant in the matter.... I got trimmed in that fight, and, as a result, went to Brazil, and that ended my diplomatic career.<ref>M. Stanton Evans, "[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=453 McCarthyism: Waging the Cold War in America]," ''Human Events'', May 30, 1997</ref>}}