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5 giorni fa · In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a high-level State Department official, was convicted of perjury. Hiss was in effect found guilty of espionage; the statute of limitations had run out for that crime, but he was convicted of having perjured himself when he denied that charge in earlier testimony before the HUAC.
2 giorni fa · HUAC is best known for its investigations of Alger Hiss and the Hollywood film industry, which led to the blacklisting of hundreds of actors, writers, and directors.
20 giu 2024 · The rollercoaster for Alger Hiss from June 26, 1945 through Thursday March 22, 1951, must have been electric. Here is Hiss in June 1945, at the bottom right, sitting as the United Nations Secretary General, at the same table as the U.S. President, arguably as his equal as a head of state.
20 giu 2024 · Congress and the American public widely supported anticommunist security measures in 1948 and 1950, due to contemporary anxieties after the rise of Communist China, the Korean War, and the Alger Hiss trial, among other factors.
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- Joseph McCarthy framed the Cold War ideological struggle in terms of Christian morality and immoral “communistic atheism.” Throughout the early 195...
- In 1953 Joseph McCarthy accused the U.S. Army of harbouring communist subversives. The Army then submitted a report alleging that McCarthy’s attorn...
2 giorni fa · Wallace was further damaged days after the convention when Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that several government officials associated with Wallace (including Alger Hiss and John Abt) were Communist infiltrators.
24 giu 2024 · McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.
20 giu 2024 · HUAC’s most celebrated case, however, did not involve an entertainment industry figure but instead Alger Hiss, a former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his involvement with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of having participated in a communist spy ring.
