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Hace 4 días · The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers. Hiss was convicted and sent to prison, with the anti-communists gaining a powerful political weapon.
Hace 3 días · Whittaker Chambers—an American ex-Communist who became famous for his cooperation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he implicated Alger Hiss—published an anti-communist memoir, Witness, in 1952. It became "the principal rallying cry of anti-Communist conservatives".
Hace 3 días · The Regency of Algiers (Arabic: دولة الجزائر, romanized: Dawlat al-Jaza'ir) was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire during the early modern period, located on the Barbary Coast of North Africa from 1516 to 1830. Founded by the corsair brothers Aruj and Hayreddin Barbarossa (Also known as Oruç and Khayr ad-Din), the Regency was a formidable pirate base ...
Hace 1 día · On the domestic front, the ‘Age of Suspicion’ was beginning. Elizabeth Bentley, a former courier for Soviet intelligence, named thirty-seven former government officials as Soviet spies. Whitaker Chambers named Alger hiss… as a communist and Soviet spy… An atmosphere of suspicion had been created.
Hace 1 día · - Alger Hiss: High-ranking official accused of being a communist sympathizer. - Ronald Reagan: Actor and future president, testified before HUAC as a "friendly witness." Dates: - 1950: McCarthy delivers a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, fueling anti-communist sentiments. - 1952: Election of Eisenhower as President.
Hace 5 días · Voilà qui traduit l’indigence politique d’un Roosevelt physiquement et mentalement diminué, circonvenu par des conseillers traîtres comme Alger Hiss et Hopkins, et d’un Churchill, qui, au dire de son médecin Lord Moran, était déjà profondément éthylique…
Hace 5 días · France-Algérie : le casse-tête de la restitution des sabres de l’émir Abdelkader. Clé de la réconciliation mémorielle entre les deux pays, la demande d’Alger de récupérer des biens du ...
