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jguilty or ‘not., t can’t: “read: the ; ‘tbhook.’” | jf SEARCHED see INREYED, a i Sunk eae ree { ~ NOV? S 1960 Furr tAd eee tA acon arene eer ee Ome ete mera! FH TLADELFH TA Divis JON Sunbury Dolly Item at a. water-front: ‘address jn Man- hattan in a: third-floot wallcup: The plate looks: ‘like: ‘the: kind of hide-out that ‘Whittaker Chamb- darker’ days. Fort Hiss.-it is no hidé-out; itis’ all hé ,eatr afford. The mystery of ‘the Alger Hiss personality is: exarhihed in ah ar- ticle in a national magazine. It is a perusual of chamacter allone without an attempt fo- faisé again |: the question of guilt.or ifinocénce|’ which has been battled .ovér. hun- dreds of times and in thousands], of words: inthe decadé- sincé” the last perjury trial, . Hiss ‘himself’ never. speaks. of} The Case, and his, silence is puzzling and sometimes ihfuriat- ing to both his frierids. and’ his enemies,. The detached: abittude that he: has toward - this: decisive event of -his* life has: kept. Alger Hiss a public mystery’ singe his release from thé. Lewisburg ‘fed- eral: prison’.seven -years. ago.’ Accordifig to the magazine, he has .becéme the non-hero of -his own cause, -.He ‘has: conspicuously refused any” martyrdom that would satisfl one camp, and. ob- viously ignored the challenge to “come cléan” that would’ satisfy the other. ~~ - Perhaps ‘the ‘key to: this unusual attiude’ ig the Hiss Legal mind. His .book, “Inthe Cotirt? of Publié Opiriion,” ’ did., little” 46 ~help: his ;cause: because ‘it:‘was {ten} like a ‘lawyer's. brief. When “people ask him, “Did.” ‘you of - didn’t you?" he ‘afiswets, “Read my. hook:’” ‘Then they 86 away: and come: back’ latet -te- say; “L give up. E don’t ‘care Whether You are EDITOR: Harry H. Haddon DATE: +=-121/11/60 EDITION: Detly Pace: 3 coLuMN: 3 TITIE OF. CASE: ALGER ‘bss Aa AIT ZEEE AY AOA EMTS 2 103665