![]() In general, thir legislatian nil1 prohibit the award or grant. The purpo~e of this IeLiiIarion IS TO prahlblt Federal snnultm or retired pay to per~anr aha commit offenses which I" effect e~nsfi~ute ![]() Ment is clearly set forth in the report an the bill ahlch became the Hias Act: 8547,and BliO Betow the H w s e Commtfier on Past Once ad Civil Srrvioe, 88d Cang., 2d Seal. 1950) A motion far B new trial wasĭenied in United States Y. 'Hirs was tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Cnflniihed Storr of Aizer Hiss 11968) Paris Office, Headquarters United States Army, Communications Zone, Europe LL.B, Loyala University (Sew Orleans) Member of the Louisiana Bar. The reader should carefully note that thli article vas uriffen p n ~ r to the pssnage of the amendments to the Hian Act in the firs J ~ S P I D ~ of the 87th Cangre~~. The opinions and ~ondusion~ presented herein are those of the author and do not neewsmiiy representthe WBI of The Judge Advocate General's School or any other governmental agenes [Ediior's Sote. Army, Charlatterville, Virginia, while the author was B member of the Kinth Career Course. This senti'This article WBP adapted from B theais presented to The Judge Advocate General's School. A majority of Congress was apparently united in the belief that it was intolerable to grant retirement benefits to federal officers and employees who brake faith with the Government. If it were not for the Hiis Act, Alger Hiss would have eventually become eligible for an annuity based upon his past federal service.5 It was this possibility that seems to have triggered the congressional activity which resulted in enactment of the act. and that neither he nor his wife had turned oyer any documents of the federal government to Chambers or any other unauthorized person.* When that testimony, which related to a period during which he was in the service of the federal government, was proved false, his con.iction for perjury resulted. Public Law i69 of the Eighty-third Congress was enacted on September 1, 1954.l It was a direct outgrowth of the famous Alger Hiss case,' and thereby became known as the Hiss Act.Īleer Hiss was convicted in federal court on January 21, 19E0, an two counts of perjury.' He preriously had testified before a federal grand jury in December of 1948 that he had not seen the farmer Communist Whittaker Chambers after July 1, 1937.
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