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[[Image:American-cities-125.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Bombing of the Federal building, Chicago, moments after [http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/ 95 Wobblies] were convicted there, 1918. ''Source: National Archives and Records Administration'']]By 1932, Priscilla Hiss had [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html registered as a member] of [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/9.html the Socialist Party],<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, p. 27</ref> and was an active member of American Labor Associates. Alger was becoming "[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html radicalized]," joining (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]])<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, p. 27</ref> the International Juridical Association (IJA), which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit.pdf Report on the National Lawyers Guild, legal bulwark of the Communist Party]," Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress (1950), p. 12</ref>

[[Image:American-cities-125.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Bombing of the Federal building, Chicago, moments after [http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/ 95 Wobblies] were convicted there, 1918. ''Source: National Archives and Records Administration'']]By 1932, Priscilla Hiss had [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html registered as a member] of [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/9.html the Socialist Party],<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, p. 27</ref> and was an active member of American Labor Associates. Alger was becoming "[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html radicalized]," joining (together with [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]])<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0195182553, p. 27</ref> the International Juridical Association (IJA), which "consistently followed the [[Communist Party]] line."<ref>"[http://ia360638.us.archive.org/2/items/reportonnational1950unit/reportonnational1950unit.pdf Report on the National Lawyers Guild, legal bulwark of the Communist Party]," Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, United States Congress (1950), p. 12</ref>

During this period, Hiss' letters to his wife reflected his increasing [[radical|radicalism]]. In 1930, he made a coy reference to the [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE terrorist]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of [http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/ 95 Wobbies] (including Haywood) at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE killing four]. (Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' [Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005] ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (whose leader, "Big Bill" Haywood, had fled the [[U.S.]] for [[Moscow]] where he [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_BHAY.HTM became a trusted adviser] to the [[Bolshevik]] government),<ref>In 1921, Haywood sold out the workers, saying, "I think every genuine labor union in the United States ought to affiliate with the International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions with its central bureau [http://www.marxists.org/archive/eastman/1921/bill-haywood.htm at Moscow]." The ICTIU was a phony "union" created and controlled by the [[Kremlin]] to suppress workers' rights in the Soviet Union.</ref> writing to Priscilla, "[D]id thee call thyself a [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]] with an [[Industrial Workers of the World|I.W.W.]] tongue in thy [[socialist|socialistic]] (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist|Communistic]]') cheek." Suggesting that an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> did not go far enough, Hiss wrote to Priscilla in 1932, “Has thee seen Archibald MacLeish's<ref>MacLeish was a noted [[fellow traveller]]. (David Caute, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=zZ6YqBm3O2wC The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism]'' [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988] ISBN 0300041950, p. 185) The [[OSS]] recorder assigned to document the the drafting of the [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml UN Charter] (over which Hiss presided), would later say MacLeish "[http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf kicked me out]" of the session. Following the [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,799590,00.html death] of [[Laurence Duggan]]&mdash;ten days after Duggan implicated [[Henry Collins|Collins]] and [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]], and [http://www.gutenberg-e.org/osc01/frames/fosc08.html five days] after Hiss' indictment by a grand jury&mdash;MacLeish, a former Librarian of Congress, would dedicate a [http://books.google.com/books?id=KI0ESFOvi5QC&pg=PA403&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 poem] to the late [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18nov_lawrence_duggan.pdf Soviet agent], denouncing "informers" (apparently [[Hede Massing]] and [[Whittaker Chambers]], each of whom had identified Duggan) as liars.</ref> article on [[capitalism]] in last week's ''Saturday Review''? [[Felix Frankfurter|Felix]] says it is soft thinking after Wilson.”<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141. The reference is to Edmund Wilson, then an editor at ''The New Republic'' who embraced Marxism and welcomed the stock market crash of 1929 as a portent of the death of capitalism. In 1932 he voted for Communist Party presidential candidate William Z. Foster and signed a manifesto calling for "a temporary [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/24/030324crat_atlarge dictatorship of the class-conscious workers]."</ref>

During this period, Hiss' letters to his wife reflected his increasing [[radical|radicalism]]. In 1930, he made a coy reference to the [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE terrorist]<ref>Moments after the sentencing of [http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/ 95 Wobbies] (including Haywood) at the Chicago Federal Building in 1918, a bomb ripped through the building, [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9502E2DB1439E13ABC4D53DFBF668383609EDE killing four]. Charles Howard McCormick, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcvhrdr6drgC Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers]'' [Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2005] ISBN 0761831320, pp. 31-31</ref> [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (whose leader, "Big Bill" Haywood, had fled the [[U.S.]] for [[Moscow]] where he [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_BHAY.HTM became a trusted adviser] to the [[Bolshevik]] government),<ref>In 1921, Haywood sold out the workers, saying, "I think every genuine labor union in the United States ought to affiliate with the International Council of Trade and Industrial Unions with its central bureau [http://www.marxists.org/archive/eastman/1921/bill-haywood.htm at Moscow]." The ICTIU was a phony "union" created and controlled by the [[Kremlin]] to suppress workers' rights in the Soviet Union.</ref> writing to Priscilla, "[D]id thee call thyself a [[Industrial Workers of the World|Wobbly]] with an [[Industrial Workers of the World|I.W.W.]] tongue in thy [[socialist|socialistic]] (I couldn't bring myself to write '[[Communist|Communistic]]') cheek." Suggesting that an article questioning the [[legitimacy]] of the existing “[[capitalist]] order”<ref>Archibald MacLeish, “To the Young Men of Wall Street,” ''Saturday Review'', January 16, 1932</ref> did not go far enough, Hiss wrote to Priscilla in 1932, “Has thee seen Archibald MacLeish's<ref>MacLeish was a noted [[fellow traveller]]. (David Caute, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=zZ6YqBm3O2wC The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism]'' [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988] ISBN 0300041950, p. 185) The [[OSS]] recorder assigned to document the the drafting of the [http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml UN Charter] (over which Hiss presided), would later say MacLeish "[http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/lindquist19april90.pdf kicked me out]" of the session. Following the [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,799590,00.html death] of [[Laurence Duggan]]&mdash;ten days after Duggan implicated [[Henry Collins|Collins]] and [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]], and [http://www.gutenberg-e.org/osc01/frames/fosc08.html five days] after Hiss' indictment by a grand jury&mdash;MacLeish, a former Librarian of Congress, would dedicate a [http://books.google.com/books?id=KI0ESFOvi5QC&pg=PA403&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0 poem] to the late [http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/18nov_lawrence_duggan.pdf Soviet agent], denouncing "informers" (apparently [[Hede Massing]] and [[Whittaker Chambers]], each of whom had identified Duggan) as liars.</ref> article on [[capitalism]] in last week's ''Saturday Review''? [[Felix Frankfurter|Felix]] says it is soft thinking after Wilson.”<ref>Tony Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=14B3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The View From Alger's Window]'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2000) ISBN 0375701281, pp. 140-141. The reference is to Edmund Wilson, then an editor at ''The New Republic'' who embraced Marxism and welcomed the stock market crash of 1929 as a portent of the death of capitalism. In 1932 he voted for Communist Party presidential candidate William Z. Foster and signed a manifesto calling for "a temporary [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/24/030324crat_atlarge dictatorship of the class-conscious workers]."</ref>

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