National Affairs: Forked Road

After two trials and almost five years of denying he was a Communist, William W. Remington, handsome, 35-year-old ex-economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce, was sentenced to serve three years in prison for perjury. At almost the same time last week, it was announced that Remington's accuser, onetime Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, had been appointed to the faculty of the College of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic girls' school at Grand Coteau, La.

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