(Jay David) Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) was an American journalist who had formerly been a Communist agent.
He recanted and defected to the West. Whittaker Chambers stated:
<Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor.
External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.> 1901WC001
<Humanism is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods."> 1901WC002
(Jay David) Whittaker Chambers warned:
<In proportion as Americans let go of faith in the absolute power of God, they accepted the belief in the all powerful state. This is true of peoples, of nations, for their idea of God determines the form of their civil, political, religious and social institutions.> 1901WC003
In his book, Witness, (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers:
<Communism is what happens when, in the name of mind, men free themselves from God. Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways.
Faith is the central problem of this age. The crisis of the western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies.
Without the soul there is no justification for freedom.> 1901WC004
In the book, Endangered Speeches-How the ACLU, IRS & LBJ Threaten Extinction of Free Speech (Amerisearch, 2009), William J. Federer wrote:
<Whittaker Chambers began attending New York's Columbia University in 1921.
In 1924, he read Lenin's Soviets at Work (1919) and in 1925 joined the Communist Party USA.
He wrote and edited the Communist publications The Daily Worker newspaper and The New Masses magazine. He translated from German into English the 1923 book Bambi, ein Leben im Walde (Bambi, A Life in the Woods), which Walt Disney Productions turned into an animated film in 1942, though much less dark and brutal than the book.
By 1932, Whittaker Chambers had joined the Communist underground and lived a life of espionage, working with spies in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration, smuggling documents to Communists.
When several fellows spies were found murdered after Stalin had begun his Great Purge, which killed millions in the U.S.S.R., Chambers went into hiding in 1937.
In 1939, Chambers joined the staff of TIME Magazine and eventually rose to be a senior editor. After another Soviet spy who defected, Walter Krivitsky, was found murdered in 1941, Whittaker Chambers decided to meet with the FBI in 1942.
The FBI did not take him seriously until another spy, Elizabeth Bentley defected in 1945 and corroborated Chambers' story.
In 1948, Whittaker Chambers testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming 18 current and former goverment employees as Communist spies or sympathizers, including Alger Hiss...
Alger Hiss received a law degree from Harvard, where he was the protege' of ACLU attorney Felix Frankfurter, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1936, Alger Hiss went to work for the U.S. State Department during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal Administration. Alger Hiss had been at the secret Yalta Conference, February 4 to February 11, 1945, where Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin divided up post-war Europe.
The Yalta Conference determined which countries of Europe would be free and which would be Communist. In 1945, Alger Hiss was secretary general of the United Nations Conference on International Organization, where he helped write the United Nations' Charter.
Alger Hiss then served as United Nations Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs.
Regarding the United Nations, President Dwight Eisenhower told the Annual Convention of the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 10, 1963:
"From its foundation the United Nations has seemed to be two distinct things to the two worlds divided by the iron curtain...To the free world it has seemed that it should be a constructive forum for free distribution of the world's problems, an effective agency for helping to solve those problems peacefully... To the Communist world it has been a convenient sounding board for their propaganda, a weapon to be exploited in spreading disunity and confusion."
In 1946, Alger Hiss became President of the globalist Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a 501(c)3 Foundation.
On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, who had defected from being a Communist spy, accused Alger Hiss of also being a Communist spy, with the role of promoting Communist policies in FDR's New Deal Government.
Based on Chamber's accusation, and testimony of other defected Communist spies, Elizabeth Bentley, Igor Gouzenko and Hede Massing, Alger Hiss was tried and convicted of perjury in a very public trial on January 25, 1950.
Testimony in 1952 from defected Communist spy, Nathaniel Weyl, a 1985 book by KGB Oleg Gordievsky, and Hungarian Communist records discovered in 1992 of spy Noel Field, corroborated Whittaker Chambers' accounts.> 1901WC005
On March 20, 1981, at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan stated:
<Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. That's why the Marxist vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith-the second oldest in the world-first proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words..."Ye shall be as gods." The crisis of the Western world, Whittaker Chambers reminded us, exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.> 1901WC006
Ronald Reagan remarked at a Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC, February 26, 1982:
<Whittaker Chambers...sought idealism in communism and found only disillusionment... He wrote, "For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether in the struggle civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. It is our fate to live upon that turning point in history.> 1901WC007
Ronald Reagan remarked at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, March 8, 1983:
<Whittaker Chambers...wrote that the crisis of the Western World exists to the degree...it collaborates in communism's attempt to make man stand alone without God... I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history.> 1901WC008
Ronald Reagan remarked at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, February 6, 1984:
<An editor of TIME magazine, Whittaker Chambers, in public testimony in 1948 named former high U.S. Government officials as spies. He was not believed at first, but the...overwhelming evidence led a jury to convict one of those former officials of perjury.
In Chambers' autobiography, "Witness," he added a sequel. Chambers marked the beginning of his personal journey away from communism on the day that he was suddenly struck by the sight of his infant daughter's ear as she sat there having breakfast...
He said, he realized that such intricacy, such precision could be no accident, no freak of nature... He didn't know it at the time, in that moment, God-the finger of God had touched his forehead. And that is why Chambers would write that faith, not economics, is the central problem of our age...
The western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem, he said, but only provided that its faith in God... is as great as communism's belief in material power.> 1901WC009
Ronald Reagan remarked at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Columbus, Ohio, March 6, 1984:
<Whittaker Chambers understood the struggle between totalitarianism and the West.
He, himself, had turned to communism out of a sense of idealism in which he thought that might be the answer. And then he wrote, all the great visions of the free world "have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of man without God."...
When men try to live in a world without God, it's only too easy for them to forget the rights that God bestows-too easy to suppress freedom of speech, to build walls to keep their countrymen in, to jail dissidents, and to put great thinkers in mental wards.> 1901WC010
After his death, Whittaker Chambers was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan. At the Presentation Ceremony, March 26, 1984, Ronald Reagan remarked:
<The Medal of Freedom is designed not to honor individuals for single acts of bravery, but instead, to acknowledge lifetime accomplishments that have changed the face and the soul of our country...
At a critical moment in our Nation's history, Whittaker Chambers stood alone against the brooding terrors of our age. Consummate intellectual, writer of moving majestic prose, and witness to the truth, he became the focus of a momentous controversy in American history that symbolized our century's epic struggle between freedom and totalitarianism, a controversy in which the solitary figure of Whittaker Chambers personified the mystery of human redemption in the face of evil and suffering.
As long as humanity speaks of virtue and dreams of freedom, the life and writings of Whittaker Chambers will ennoble and inspire.> 1901WC011
Ronald Reagan remarked to Administration Officials on Domestic Policy, December 13, 1988:
<Whittaker Chambers once wrote that, in his words, "Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies."> 1901WC012
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1901WC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers, (1901-1961), American journalist and recanted Communist agent. Whittaker Chambers, Witness (New York: Random House, 1952), p. 16. John Eidsmoe, God & Caesar-Christian Faith & Political Action (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, a Division of Good News Publishers, 1984), p. 85.
1901WC002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers, Robert Flood, The Rebirth of America (Philadelphia: Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986), p. 90.
1901WC003. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers, Whittaker Chambers, Witness (NY: Random House, 1952), p. 17. Russ Walton, One Nation Under God (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1993), p. 49.
1901WC004. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers, Whittaker Chambers, Witness (NY: Random House, 1952). Russ Walton, One Nation Under God (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1993), p. 50.
1901WC005. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Jay David) Whittaker Chambers. William J. Federer, Endangered Speeches-How the ACLU, IRS & LBJ Threaten Extinction of Free Speech (St. Louis, MO: Amerisearch, Inc., 2009).
1901WC006. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, March 20, 1981, at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC.
1901WC007. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, February 26, 1982, remarked at a Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, DC.
1901WC008. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, March 8, 1983, remarked at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida.
1901WC009. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, February 6, 1984, remarked at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois.
1901WC010. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, March 6, 1984, remarked at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Columbus, Ohio.
1901WC011. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, March 26, 1984, awarding posthumously the Medal of Freedom to Whittaker Chambers.
1901WC012. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Ronald Reagan, December 13, 1988, remarked to Administration Officials on Domestic Policy.