Whittaker Chambers and Esther Schemitz | Thread profile

Quote: Originally Posted by Pennsylvania_Dutch If you look at the Venona transcripts, you will see that they are NO smoking gun as far as Hiss is concerned. Pure speculation, maybe Cordell Hull really was a commie spy... Moynihan was just another Irish catholic BLOWHARD in my opinion...maybe he had gay sex with Chambers? Oh, I'd say it's a smoking gun. They have a message that describes a spy asset named "Ales" (which I...

One more thing: Tanenhaus appeared on C-SPAN's "Booknotes" program back in the late '90s to discuss his then-new biography. That may be where I heard the bathroom-cruising stuff. (Brian Lamb seems to have a prurient streak!)

Quote: Originally Posted by okieredust I think this sheds some light on things. I suspect Derbyshire speaks for WFB too. Quote: National Review wants to get certain ideas out to the U.S. public—ideas about economics, politics, law, religion, science, history, the arts, and more. To do that, the magazine needs standing in our broad cultural milieu. It needs status. That’s hard at the best of times for a conservative publication.4 Comments...

Chambers was a liar, and the type of moral weakling who bites the very hand that fed him. If Alger Hiss had blown Chambers off the way most people treat panhandlers & beggars there would have been no book for Chambers to write.

Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Yannis Hiss was, as far as I can tell, a gentile. Not sure about his wife . Of the very worst sort - a Quaker.

Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Yannis Chambers repeats many times that it wasn't the people that were evil so much as it was Communism that was evil and corrupted those who got involved with it. I'd say that it's really the Talmud that is evil, and Communism is merely one of its many evil expressions. Well, you may have seen me arguing that while Talmudists eventually entered the Communist scene in huge numbers, it had...

So many "big-name conservatives" are married to Jews that the conservative movement could be called "hopelessly tainted/corrupted." ---------------------

One of the ways the Trotskyite took over the conservative movement was the Cold War where everything was concentrated on being anti Soviet Union. Yet by this time the Soviets had become much more nationalistic and the internationalist Trotskyites had already broken with them. So the Trotskyites had no problem joining in the hate the Soviet Union bandwagon since they hated it themselves. Especially since they could shift the direction toward...

Sobran seems to think Buckley was just plain skeert. Of what isn't all that clear, although Sobran implies that WFB was afraid of losing the celebrity status and lifestyle granted him by his Zionist associations... http://www.federationofstates.org/buckley.htm How I Was Fired By Bill Buckley by Joseph Sobran In October 1993 I was fired by National Review, the magazine I'd written for since 1972. It wasn't unexpected. Bill...