environment. The sum total of all surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things, which provide conditions for development and growth as well as of danger and damage.
Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949â1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957â1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
What was Alger Hiss accused of? After two trials during 1949, a jury found Alger Hiss, a former high-ranking State Department official, accused of by Whittaker Chambers in August 1948 of being a communist anâ¦d Soviet spy, guilty on two counts of perjury.