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Prosecution "Witnesses / 47
Mrs. Hiss visited us there for ten days. I'm not sure in what part of the summer. That fall we stayed at the Hisses' home for a few days. I thought I might be going to Europe and my wife and child would stay with them. I didn't go, though.
Sometime around Christmas 1937 they visited us at our house at Mount Royal Terrace in Baltimore.
Chambers gave many other details of social times with Hiss and his wife to prove how friendly he and his wife were with them. He described in great detail the outsides and insides of their four homes. He told of gifts the Hisses had given him—a dining-room table, an armchair, and a chest of drawers. Chambers's voice was soft and flat as he gave detail after detail. He spoke calmly, and some of the reporters thought he seemed emotionally detached from his words.
Chambers described a trip to New Hampshire in August 1937. The prosecution believed this trip proved he had seen Hiss in 1937.
Q. Did you ever take any other trips together? A* Yes. On August 9, 1937, we went to Peterborough, New Hampshire, so I could see another agent, Harry Dexter White, who was the assistant secretary of the Treasury. We drove up to White's driveway.
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