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Morally, if not legally, it was up to Alger Hiss to prove that there ever was such a person as George Crosley. This week the committee would have Chambers and Hiss confront each other in public. But the committee had a greater responsibility than merely permitting the public to compare two stories. By all the means at its command, it had to find out—and tell the people—which story was true.
-Alger Hiss is Mrs. Hiss's second husband. As Priscilla Hobson, she was a TIME copy chief in 1927 and 1928.