Kent, Luthor, Nixon...and Hiss
rob...@bestweb.net
Richard Nixon (and it sure doesn't look like coincidence), then Clark Kent
must be Alger Hiss. To look for more connections, I'll quote from
http://www-paradigm.asucla.ucla.edu/DB/Issues/95/10.31/view.hiss.html:
The Alger Hiss case: the real trial of the century
Promising career snuffed by 1940s communist trials
By Susan E. Evans
On Aug. 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor from Time
magazine and self-admitted ex-communist, appeared before the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) identifying Alger Hiss and
several other federal officials of having been members of a Communist
cell whose purpose had been to infiltrate the U.S. government....
Before Hiss had time to deny the charges and ever having known a man
by the name of Whittaker Chambers, the story was banner headline news....
Despite the sensation surrounding the case, several HUAC members
proposed dropping the investigation. Arguing against this proposal was
the ambitious, young Republican congressman from California, Richard
Nixon, who convinced the committee to proceed, at least until it could
be determined which of the two men was lying.
Toward that end, a special subcommittee of HUAC, headed by Nixon,
convened on Aug. 7, 1948 to re-examine Chambers. Under intense
scrutiny, Chambers proffered many intimate details of Hiss' personal
affairs in the '30s and claimed that they had been close friends.
Ten days later, Hiss and Chambers finally confronted each other in a
closed session. Face-to-face with his accuser for the first time since
the allegations had been made, Hiss identified Chambers as a freelance
reporter he had once known by the name George Crosley. Nixon seized
this apparent "conflict" in Hiss' testimony, citing it as evidence
that Hiss had been lying all along....
Despite the confidence in which Chambers made his charges, he provided
no concrete evidence to support them. By mid-November the Justice
Department seemed ready to drop the case. Before it did, however,
Chambers played his trump card, delivering to his attorney 65 typed
State Department documents that he claimed to have received from Hiss.
Several nights later, Chambers led two HUAC investigators to a pumpkin
patch on his Maryland farmlands where he produced, from the carcass of
a hollowed-out pumpkin, four rolls of microfilm containing secret
State Department documents that he said had also been secretly passed
to him by Hiss in the 1930s....
In "Smallville" we have Roger Nixon dogging Clark Kent, an extraterrestrial
(Communist) trying to pass as human. Lex has said he wants to be president
of the USA. Lex Luthor, lying, denies he knows reporter Roger Nixon. Lex
advises Nixon to drop the investigation, but Nixon pushes on. The reporter
goes to a farm and uncovers a spaceship (pumpkin).
So Roger Nixon is a combination of Richard Nixon and Whittaker Chambers,
while Alger Hiss is represented partly by Clark Kent and partly by Lex
Luthor. But Lex's ambition to be POTUS also makes him partly Richard Nixon.
Robert