Publication of Max Frankel’s superb article on G. Edward White’s “Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars” (Sunday Feb.29) may be the closest the New York Times will come to apologizing for its devotion to Alger Hiss, lugubriously lighting a candle for him on every birthday until his death, grasping at spurious posthumous evidence for his innocence, and as late as November 1992 running Christopher Lehman-Haupt’s morally acrobatic obituary of Herbert Aptheker. During the Jubilee Year of 2000 after the Pope had made florid apologies for various crusaders and inquisitors long long dead, the New York Times editorial of May 14 demanded that he also apologize for the Church’s teachings on contraception, abortion, ordination of women, and homosexuality, thus requiring the virtuous to apologize for virtue. If the Grey Lady persists in denying natural law, she at least should apologize for denying history, and finally admit the treason of Hiss.