Given what we now know about the nature of the Soviet threat that we did not know when this book was written it is easy to see how Mr. Hiss could have attracted a following of sympathizers to his claims of injustice. This book is well written but, in light of now-available KGB documents and Venona intercepts, Mr. Hiss's "Woe is me!" tale of conspiracy and "forgery by typewriter" ring pretty hollow when compared to the woe that was visited upon millions of innocents who lived their entire lives never knowing the freedom that their heirs now enjoy in a free, democratic Europe. Mr. Hiss and those who shared his world view must bear in eternity the guilt recompense an individual who would enslave a continent.