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Witness Study Guide

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by Whittaker Chambers
About 45 pages (13,432 words)
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Chapter 5 Underground The First Apparatus Summary and Analysis

Chambers appears at Max Bedacht's office. Bedacht informs Chambers that the Party wants him to work in an underground apparatus. This means he has to leave his job at The New Masses. He travels back to the farm in New Jersey to discuss the situation with Esther. Chambers usually spends the weekdays in the city and the weekends on the farm, since it is too far and too expensive for a daily commute. Esther does not want him to take the underground work; but when Chambers returns to Bedacht, he finds he has no choice. Bedacht takes him to meet John Sherman, who used to be at the Daily Worker. When Sherman disappeared, he became a member of the underground apparatus. Sherman is the one who requested.....

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