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Diplomat [[#refTime11.5.45|Spruille Braden]] said he knew of three separate occasions when the question of Hiss was raised before Roosevelt, including, apparently, once by liberal columnist Dorothy Thompson: "Each time they were completely ignored."<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/interviews.html#B Spruille Braden, Oral Interview], [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/index.html Oral History Research Office], [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Nicholas Murray Butler Library], Columbia University, quoted in Peter Grose, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vjSliiGAx1MC Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain]'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001) ISBN 0618154582, p. 65</ref> Unfortunately, Roosevelt "merely 'scoffed at the charge,'" according to British historian and former diplomat [http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/hon_fellows/dstafford/ David Stafford]: "As a result, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stafford-roosevelt.html no counter-intelligence programme for identifying Communist agents in the federal government was put in place]."

Diplomat [[#refTime11.5.45|Spruille Braden]] said he knew of three separate occasions when the question of Hiss was raised before Roosevelt, including, apparently, once by liberal columnist Dorothy Thompson: "Each time they were completely ignored."<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/interviews.html#B Spruille Braden, Oral Interview], [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/index.html Oral History Research Office], [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Nicholas Murray Butler Library], Columbia University, quoted in Peter Grose, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=vjSliiGAx1MC Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain]'' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001) ISBN 0618154582, p. 65</ref> Unfortunately, Roosevelt "merely 'scoffed at the charge,'" according to British historian and former diplomat [http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/staff/hon_fellows/dstafford/ David Stafford]: "As a result, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/stafford-roosevelt.html no counter-intelligence programme for identifying Communist agents in the federal government was put in place]."

In consequence, Hiss would rise unimpeded through the ranks, in 1944 becoming deputy director of the [[State Department]]'s Office of Special Political Affairs, a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>[[#refDallas45|Dallas 1945]]: 412</ref> In August, he [[#refLinder03|would organize]] the [http://secint50.un.org/aboutun/charter/history/dumbarton.shtml 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 [[#refWhalen48|executive]] [[#refTime2.13.50|secretary]], presiding over<ref>[[#refYUNHiss|YUN Hiss]]: 8 (PDF 9)</ref> the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter.

In consequence, Hiss would rise unimpeded through the ranks, in 1944 becoming deputy director of the [[State Department]]'s Office of Special Political Affairs, a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>[[#refDallas05|Dallas 2005]]: 412</ref> In August, he [[#refLinder03|would organize]] the [http://secint50.un.org/aboutun/charter/history/dumbarton.shtml 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 [[#refWhalen48|executive]] [[#refTime2.13.50|secretary]], presiding over<ref>[[#refYUNHiss|YUN Hiss]]: 8 (PDF 9)</ref> the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter.

Berle, in contrast, found his [[State Department]] career soon over. By 1948 he would be serving as chairman of [[New York]]'s Liberal Party, working for the reelection of [[President]] [[Harry Truman]]. 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:

Berle, in contrast, found his [[State Department]] career soon over. By 1948 he would be serving as chairman of [[New York]]'s Liberal Party, working for the reelection of [[President]] [[Harry Truman]]. 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: