his clerk. Following these positions he joined Roosevelt's administration and worked in several departments including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, the Nye Committee, the Justice Department, and The State Department. He helped in the committee that was the founder of the United Nations and traveled to Yalta with the delegation that brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, which led to him becoming the temporary secretary general of the United Nations . His last well known and high profile job before he was accused and stood trial was as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was well known and his name was at one time a banner of the ideals of what Americans stand for.
The person who started the process that accused Hiss of being a Communist was Whittaker Chambers. Hiss, a well educated and a true certified gentleman in the United States, had an excellent background, while Chambers was almost the opposite. Chambers went Columbia University and was forced to leave school after writing a play, which was deemed blasphemous. He was fired from the New York public library after he was caught stealing books. He worked for several Communist publications as a writer. He later worked with the Communist underground collecting information and delivering it to the Soviet connections he dealt with. The end of the 1930's brought with it a change of opinion and beliefs for Chambers. Stalin's purge trials caused Chambers to leave the underground. To Chambers, these trials were against what he believed the party stood for. He turned sharply away from the Communist ideas and practices and became a devout Christian fighting against the proliferation of the Co!
mmunist culture in America. This change brought him to Time magazine where he became one of the senior editors .
The signing of the Non-Agression Pact between Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939 was an event that put into place feelings of inse...