Posted on 03/04/2013 8:03:16 AM PST by Shery
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific--and all his men Look'd at each other wild a wild surmise-- Silent, upon a peak in Darien. ---John Keats, from On First looking into Chapman's Homer
A few days before I wrote these words, opened for the first time Whittaker Chambers' WITNESS. It is his account of the Alger Hiss espionage case. And, as Chambers says, "all the props of an espionage case are there--foreign agents, household traitors, stolen documents, microfilm, furtive meetings, secret hideaways, phony names, an informer....
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Whittaker Chambers is THE forgotten hero of the Cold War.
He wrote Witness in despair that the Soviets & their allies foreign & domestic were winning.
Alger Hiss & his Ivy League friends resemble the gungrabbers of today through their sheer arrogance and perceived intellectual superiority to the `unwashed masses’ whom they seek to rule. That much hasn’t changed.
The USSR is gone, but the ghost of the Communist Party lives on in the heads of our professorial & political elites. And like the communists, our elites long to say with force backing up their command,
“No, citizen, you can’t have those things. You must give them to the state.”
A college professor dying of cancer introduced our freshman history class to Whittaker Chambers in 1955. Every student in high school and college should read “Witness.” There are forums each year on C-Span about him.
A college professor dying of cancer introduced our freshman history class to Whittaker Chambers in 1955. Every student in high school and college should read “Witness.” There are forums each year on C-Span about him.
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