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Defense "Witnesses / 117
Q* When did you first meet Whittaker Chambers? A* Sometime in late December 1934 or early January 1935, he came to my office. I was working for the Senate Nye Committee. He said he was writing articles on our munitions investigation. He asked me questions. I suggested he look at some of our written material. About two weeks later, he came back and read through these documents. They were all public information. A couple of weeks later he telephoned and asked to meet again. We met for lunch. I often did that when people wanted to talk to me. Three weeks later, he told me he was planning to come to Washington with his family but didn't have a place to stay. I was moving and had an old apartment on my hands for two or three months. I hadn't intended to sublease it. In fact I had already told the electric company to disconnect the lights as of May 1, 1935. But when he mentioned it, I suggested he take the apartment and pay me $60 a month to cover my costs. He agreed. The day he was supposed to move in, he telephoned me up and told me that his furnishings were delayed. I offered to put him up until his furniture arrived. It turned out he stayed three nights because the van didn't arrive.
Hiss denied Chambers's story of the trip to Peterborough. He testified that he had been in Chestertown, Maryland, from the middle of
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