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The house of Chambers ... and the assault of the local bureaucrats.(PEOPLE & PLACES)(Whittaker Chambers )(In memoriam)
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August 27, 2007|
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ON the night he tried to kill himself, Whittaker Chambers wrote a letter to his two children. It did not include a detailed account of the Alger Hiss spy case, which had driven Chambers to what he called "spiritual exhaustion." Instead, the letter contained simple fatherly advice: "I urged them," he said, "never to leave the land."
Chambers was thinking of Pipe Creek Farm, in Westminster, Md.--the family home since the 1930s and the site of the famous Pumpkin Papers incident. He lived to see it again: He botched the suicide and decided to continue testifying against ...
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