United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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Excerpt from United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: United States of America, Appellee, Against Alger Hiss, AppellantThat this conclusion played an important 'part in the Court's own view of the case is evidenced by the fact that approximately one-third of the opinion (op. Pp. 241-9) deals with testimony before the Committee on un-american Activities of the House of Representatives in August, 19-18, ending with extended quotation from the session of August 17.We submit that the Court, partly through failing to take account of appellant's testimony at the House Committee hearing of August 16 with regard to the man whom he had known as George has arrived at and at tributed to the jury a clearly erroneous appraisal of appel lant's House Committee testimony.The only statement in the Court's opinion regarding appellant's testimony of August 16 is (op. P. 242)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.