Well, there you had it. That was perhaps typical, typical of people in the foreign service, typical of people closely associated with Harvard and other great universities. They couldn’t bear to find one of their own like Hiss being involved in this kind of thing. They considered the Hiss case as being an attack on the whole elite establishment, an attack on the foreign service, an attack on those who were there for the UN, and even an attack on Roosevelt’s foreign policy. Those attitudes were all crap, but that was what I had to fight against.37
