1934, when Chambers started working with the Ware Group (according to Cantwell's papers), Cantwell accompanied him; about this time, Chambers let Cantwell know that he was using the alias "Lloyd Cantwell" in Baltimore. Biographer Seyersted notes that in his 1952 memoir Witness, Chambers may have changed dates for his first meetings in Washington for the Ware Group to June and later in order to protect Cantwell. Cantwell helped get Whittaker Chambers a job at Time magazine, as Chambers recounted in his memoirs: The morning mail brought a letter from my friend, Robert Cantwell, the author of Laugh and Lie Down, and later, the biographer of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Cantwell was then one of the editors of Time magazine... But his letter... urged me to go to New York at once. As sometimes happens at Time, several jobs were suddenly open. Cantwell thought that I might get one of them... Cantwell thought I should try for a book reviewer's job. I wrote several trial reviews. A few days later, Time hired me. Chambers had used the alias "Lloyd Cantwell" during his time in the Soviet underground, including the formation of the American Feature Writers Syndicate with comrade John Loomis Sherman (using the alias Charles Francis Chase) and literary agent Maxim Lieber. During the Hiss Case, Cantwell's name came up, and he found himself under FBI surveillance. When Chambers published his memoirs, Cantwell wrote a negative review. Cantwell's mental breakdown in 1941 plus Chambers' use of his surname in the 1930s may well have led the Hiss defense team to conflate the two Cantwells and thus question Chambers' own sanity. ("Is he a man of sanity?" Hiss publicly questioned as early as August 25, 1948.) In later years, Cantwell would express skepticism that Chambers even was in the underground; at others, he would express great fear of Soviet retribution (for Chambers' defection–and Cantwell's role in it?). WorksOriginal works: "Hanging by My Thumbs" in The New American Caravan (1931) Laugh and Lie Down (1931) Land of Plenty (1934, 1971) "The Hills around Centralia" in Proletarian Literature in the United States: An Anthology (1935) Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years (1948, 1971) Famous American Men of Letters, illustrated by Gerald McCann (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956) Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer: A Biography, decorated by Robert Ball (1961) Real McCoy: The Life and Times of Norman Selby (1971) Hidden Northwest (1972)Editorial works: The Humorous Side of