| | Levine also told [http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/laborhall/dd.htm David Dubinsky], president of the [http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/ilgwu.htm International Ladies Garment Workers Union] about [[Whittaker Chambers|Chambers]]' revelations. Dubinsky, wrote Levine, "took up the Chambers matter with the [[Franklin Roosevelt|President]] at the first opportunity and was brushed off with an amiable slap on the back." Levine wrote that he also told fellow journalist [http://www.radiohof.org/news/walterwinchell.html Walter Winchell] of "a ring of six [[Soviet]] agents operating within the [[State Department]] alone. In his broadcast of December 12, Winchell announced that he had carried my information to President Roosevelt. Still there was no action."<ref>Isaac Don Levine, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Zts3AAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Eyewitness To History: Memoirs and Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent for Half a Century]'' (Stroud, Glos.: Hawthorn Books, 1973) ASIN B000ONBAW0, pp. 197-9</ref> Winchell's posthumously published memoir confirms Levine's story.<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 331</ref> | | Levine also told [http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/laborhall/dd.htm David Dubinsky], president of the [http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/ilgwu.htm International Ladies Garment Workers Union] about [[Whittaker Chambers|Chambers]]' revelations. Dubinsky, wrote Levine, "took up the Chambers matter with the [[Franklin Roosevelt|President]] at the first opportunity and was brushed off with an amiable slap on the back." Levine wrote that he also told fellow journalist [http://www.radiohof.org/news/walterwinchell.html Walter Winchell] of "a ring of six [[Soviet]] agents operating within the [[State Department]] alone. In his broadcast of December 12, Winchell announced that he had carried my information to President Roosevelt. Still there was no action."<ref>Isaac Don Levine, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Zts3AAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Eyewitness To History: Memoirs and Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent for Half a Century]'' (Stroud, Glos.: Hawthorn Books, 1973) ASIN B000ONBAW0, pp. 197-9</ref> Winchell's posthumously published memoir confirms Levine's story.<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 331</ref> |
| − | By 1944, Hiss would be deputy director of the [[State Department]]'s Office of Special Political Affairs, a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>Gregor Dallas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tOyMNjvKajYC 1945: The War that Never Ended]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) ISBN 0300109806), p. 412</ref> In August, he would organize the [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html Dumbarton Oaks Conference],<ref>Hiss even suggested the location from which the conference derives its name. (Robert C. Hilderbrand, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BFHJMfMtiKsC Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security]'' [Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001] ISBN 0807849502, p. 67)</ref> where he would serve as [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/chambers-strange.html executive] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811892.html secretary], [http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/history/dumbarton.shtml presiding over] the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter. | + | By 1944, Hiss would be deputy director of the [[State Department]]'s Office of Special Political Affairs, a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>Gregor Dallas, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=tOyMNjvKajYC 1945: The War that Never Ended]'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) ISBN 0300109806), p. 412</ref> In August, he would organize the [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html Dumbarton Oaks Conference],<ref>Hiss even suggested the location from which the conference derives its name. (Robert C. Hilderbrand, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BFHJMfMtiKsC Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the Search for Postwar Security]'' [Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2001] ISBN 0807849502, p. 67)</ref> where he would serve as [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/chambers-strange.html executive] [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811892.html secretary], [http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/hiss13february11october90.pdf presiding over] the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter. |
| | By 1948 Berle 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 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: |