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80 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Thursday, December 8-Friday, December 9, 1949
Witness: Julian Wadleigh
Direct Examination by the Prosecution
Wadleigh was a slim, brown-haired man with horn-rimmed glasses. He spoke with an accent that he had acquired when he studied economics in England at Oxford University and the University of London. Wadleigh claimed that from late 1935 to March 1938, he passed to Chambers documents from his department. He never became an official member of the party; he called himself a voluntary collaborator. He said he turned over documents to the Soviets because they were the only world power at that time actively against Hitler and Nazi Germany.
One at a time, the prosecutor handed Wadleigh each of the forty-seven documents and asked:
Q. Did you ever give these to Chambers?
A* My best recollection is that I did not. But it was
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