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The Warbler "IT SINGS!" Vol. V No. 1 August 1986 Magazine Journal With Speech "Lessons of the Alger Hiss Case" by Richard M. Nixon

1986Best.-Nr. 015922Berkeley California: The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars. Offered is the August 1986 issue Vol. V No. 1 of "The Warbler 'IT SINGS!'" edited by "Publius Ultracrepidus" possibly founders Paul Seabury or A. Lawrence Chickering later Philip Siegelman and published by The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars out of Berkeley California. Most likely issued once per year a stapled magazine measuring 7" by 8-1/2" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. This issue is devoted to a speech by Richard M. Nixon entitled "Lessons of the Alger Hiss Case" given at the previous year's Pumpkin Papers Irregulars Banquet October 31 1985 - The Warbler writes in part "A fearsome threat to our Irregulars since our Formation has been The Leak. In the years since Formation we have done well to prevent unauthorized persons from being privy to our scholarly activities and this is as it should be. That is until recently. At our last Hallowe'en banquet at the Princeton Club in New York City - a well-attended affair we must admit - a precedent was set which in all candor we trust will not significantly damage our close security" - "On that date the Pumpkin Papers had as honored guest and orator the Honorable Richard M. Nixon. The powerful illuminating and even moving text of President Nixon's remarks are of such a nature that we have decided to devote our entire current issue of THE WARBLER to them." Former President Nixon begins his lengthy remarks: "First I want to express appreciation to all who have said such kind words" - "I was trying to think how to address myself to you. I guess I can just start out by saying Fellow Leakers Tapers and Red Baiters. That covers us all - past present and maybe the future. I became acquainted with this organization from a speech which I received from Bill Casey William J. Casey. He doesn't send me many of his speeches but this one was really a delight. He spoke last year in a place that I speak now not in this room but at least at this meeting. I thought I knew a lot about the Hiss case; but Bill with his usual thoroughness has done a magnificent research job; I learned things that I really didn't know at that time that I was up to speed on it. Then I read a bit about the organization Pumpkin Papers Irregulars - 8 years you've studied!" - "Let me just share with you for a few minutes if I could my own observations about the case." Also in this issue: a reprint of a Letters to the Editor New York Times dated January 9 1986 from Alger Hiss in response to Mr. Nixon's short Opinion Piece also entitled "Lessons of the Alger Hiss Case" printed in that paper the day before January 8 1986. Mr. Hiss writes "I resent in particular Mr. Nixon's insinuation with no basis except Whittaker Chamber's word that my wife engaged in wrongdoing. This seems to me to be of a piece with his practices through the long years since his membership in the House Committee on Un-American activities in 1948." The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars considered by some to be a "secret society" was founded in 1977 in New York City by Paul Seabury and A. Lawrence Chickering to memorialize the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss case venerate Whittaker Chambers as an early American conservative and patriot monitor the latest news on the continuing denials of guilt by Alger Hiss and his supporters and host an annual dinner on or near October 31 of each year - an Annual Observance Halloween Banquet - where they would award the Victor Navasky Prize Mr. Navasky was a long-time defender of Alger Hiss to a notable public figure whom they considered to be the most disloyal American. It is likely that this publication "The Warbler - IT SINGS!" was issued infrequently and most likely annually. Two tiny staple holes where issue was stapled for mailing else Fine. Uncommon if not rare. . Fine. Magazine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1986. The Pumpkin Papers Irregulars unknown

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