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114 / THE ALOER HISS TRIAL
Monday, December 19, 1949
Witness: Malcolm Cowley
Direct Examination by the Defense
Cowley was a writer. The defense believed his testimony showed that Chambers constantly lied.
CJ. Tell us about seeing Chambers on December 13, 1940.
A. We met in a restaurant. He was wearing gray clothes and a dirty shirt. Both looked like they had been slept in. His teeth were in very bad condition. One or more was missing. He was writing an article for Time magazine about writers who had been sympathetic to communism. We talked briefly about the article. He mentioned Communists he knew in the federal government. I had never heard of any of them. Then he mentioned Francis B. Sayre. I said, "Sayre, President Wilson's son-in-law?" And he said, "Yes." Then I said, "But he's the high commissioner to the Philippines." He said, "Yes, that's him. He was the head of a Communist underground group in the State Department." He never mentioned Hiss.
Cowley showed his diary. It contained notes he had written right after that meeting.
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