Pumpkin Papers

Moviefone mixes Whittaker Chambers into Hollywood’s Cold War

David Chambers — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:52:44 +0000

Did Whittaker Chambers suffer from a paranoid image of the Cold War?

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Red Conspirator, by Thomas Sakmyster

David Chambers — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:15:36 +0000

From August 3, 1948, until today, America has had to wait to learn more about the head of Soviet espionage in Washington during the 1930s.

On that day, Whittaker Chambers (my grandfather) told the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) under subpoena…

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Chambers on Reinsch on Chambers

David Chambers — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:30:59 +0000

…I would go further. More than muffling Whittaker Chambers’s intellectual thought, Reinsch strangles it. He narrows Chambers’s vistas to his own private passion: conversion passages in Witness (page 83). Fixation aside, nothing is new… Reinsch ditches insight for personal bias.

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(Reprint from “Letters: Muffled—or Strangled?,” published in the January 2011 issue of The New Criterion)

Whittaker Chambers, by Richard Reinsch

David Chambers — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:44:27 +0000

Reinsch’s treatment falls short… Where Chambers writes with passion and palpability, Reinsch offers fuzz. His prose muffles the screams…

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