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Embarrassment mounted among Hiss partisans as weeks dragged by with no suit filed.<ref>[[#refHK06|Haynes, Klehr 2006]]: 103</ref> The New York ''Daily News'' asked, "Well Alger, where's that suit?"<ref>[[#refChambers52|Chambers 1952]]: 281. Cf. Lloyd Chiasson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LBC1QaeWyDAC The press on trial: crimes and trials as media events]'' (ABC-CLIO, 1997) ISBN 0275959368, p. 137</ref> Even the ''Washington Post''—"the most implacable of the pro-Hiss newspapers," according to Chambers<ref>[[#refChambers52|Chambers 1952]]: 710. "The ''Post''... seemed to redouble its pro-Hiss efforts as the goal of finding him legally guiltless was receding." Marvin N. Olasky, "[http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED285187.pdf Liberal Boosterism and Conservative Distancing: Newspaper Coverage of the Chambers-Hiss Affair, 1948-1950]," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (70th, San Antonio, TX, August 1-4, 1987), p. 13</ref>—began to have doubts,<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 162</ref> writing:
Embarrassment mounted among Hiss partisans as weeks dragged by with no suit filed.<ref>[[#refHK06|Haynes, Klehr 2006]]: 103</ref> The New York ''Daily News'' asked, "Well Alger, where's that suit?"<ref>[[#refChambers52|Chambers 1952]]: 281. Cf. Lloyd Chiasson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=LBC1QaeWyDAC The press on trial: crimes and trials as media events]'' (ABC-CLIO, 1997) ISBN 0275959368, p. 137</ref> Even the ''Washington Post''—"the most implacable of the pro-Hiss newspapers," according to Chambers<ref>[[#refChambers52|Chambers 1952]]: 710. "The ''Post''... seemed to redouble its pro-Hiss efforts as the goal of finding him legally guiltless was receding." Marvin N. Olasky, "[http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED285187.pdf Liberal Boosterism and Conservative Distancing: Newspaper Coverage of the Chambers-Hiss Affair, 1948-1950]," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (70th, San Antonio, TX, August 1-4, 1987), p. 13</ref>—began to have doubts,<ref>[[#refWeinstein78|Weinstein 1978]]: 162</ref> writing:
{{cquote|As yet, no formal action to initiate a suit for slander has publicly been taken by Mr. Hiss ... Mr. Hiss himself has created a situation in which he is obliged to [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,888461,00.html put up or shut up] ... Mr. Hiss has left himself no alternative. And each day of delay in making it known that he will avail himself of the opportunity Mr. Chambers has accorded him does incalculable damage to his reputation.}}
{{cquote|As yet, no formal action to initiate a suit for slander has publicly been taken by Mr. Hiss ... Mr. Hiss himself has created a situation in which he is obliged to put up or shut up ... Mr. Hiss has left himself no alternative. And each day of delay in making it known that he will avail himself of the opportunity Mr. Chambers has accorded him does incalculable damage to his reputation.<ref>Chalmers McGeagh Roberts, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=SRhlAAAAMAAJ The Washington post: the first 100 years]'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1977) ISBN 0395258545, p. 277</ref>}}
Finally, [[#refChronology|after a month]], Hiss filed his long-threatened slander suit against Chambers.
Finally, [[#refChronology|after a month]], Hiss filed his long-threatened slander suit against Chambers.