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Rewitness

Witness By Whittaker Chambers Gateway, 808 pp., $6.95 Apart from the praiseworthiness of Henry Regnery’s initiative, what is the meaning of re-publishing Whittaker Chambers’ Witness a quarter of a century after the fact? One can probably dismiss as coincidence the simultaneous appearance of an exemplary piece of research, by Allen Weinstein, into the problem of Hiss’s guilt. Other, similar efforts may still be in store, for we do feel a periodic urge to rehash this case.

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Rewitness

Witness By Whittaker Chambers Gateway, 808 pp., $6.95 Apart from the praiseworthiness of Henry Regnery’s initiative, what is the meaning of re-publishing Whittaker Chambers’ Witness a quarter of a century after the fact? One can probably dismiss as coincidence the simultaneous appearance of an exemplary piece of research, by Allen Weinstein, into the problem of Hiss’s guilt. Other, similar efforts may still be in store, for we do feel a periodic urge to rehash this case.