There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded from Whittaker Chambers’ fight against communism.
In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and passing secret U.S. government documents from traitorous New Dealers to his Soviet handlers in Washington, D.C. He broke with communism in 1937-38, then joined the staff at Time, where for the next decade he fought a one-man literary Cold War against communism at home and abroad, including an effort to warn the country about the Chinese communists during World War II and after.
