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ss ya oN i ~ oN! J we re .e oN » / > aa Vi s ‘ iN We 6 anrmenr oF stave a _ Pm mM -& wot 2 vos. 4 FOR WWE PRESS. to, o6e = rad GAUTION - FUTURE RELEASE - FOR RELEASE AT 8:00 P.M., E.S,7., THURSDAY, OCTOBER -25, 1951, iv ow "NOT 10_BE PREVIOUSLY SST SRD RUSTED -FROR-OR USED QUOTED FROM OR USED Tv aNY WAY. SCCCCSCSCSCS—SCSCSCSSS— ADDRESS BY GENERAL CONRAD e/SnoM, CHAIRMAN OF THE LOYALTY SECURITY BOARD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, BEFORE THE - MONTHLY MEETING OF THS-RU BETA EPSILON LEGAL FRATERNITY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, LEE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C., AT 6;00 P.M., £.3.1T., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1951 . a ‘Communists in Government and the Loyalty Program t have been asked to speak on the ealleratiscn, widely broad- cast in the United States, -- that the 3 tes Government has been infiltrated by communiets_and commu zers, -- afid on the remedy devised to prevent infiltration of the govern- ment by communists -- e President's Ioyalty program. —. a a a : . The subject matter has a three-fold interest for. lawyersrin- training: lst) lawyers as citizens are interested in. the allega- tion itself, Is it a fact that there are communists in government, and, if not, what ls this "McCarthyisu” that tirelessly proclaims that thete aré communists in government; 2nd) Lawyers are - ~~ interested-in the remedy, as a legal device for determining thet government employees are not communists or communist sympathizers, . “- or, in a broader sense, are not disloyal persons or security risks. Is the device an infringement on American Constitutional -. guarantees? 3rd) Lawyers are interested in the allegation and the remedy taken together, in their joint effect on the freedom of thought and action which is at once our American heritage and the touchstone of democracy, Is freedom of thought and action being ~ . stifled through fear or unjust accusation on the one hand and of .- — ineligibility for government employment on-the other hand, I So shail try to make a brief contribution to all three aspects of the: ~ + subject, — . . coe Under the first head, the truth of the allegation, I can speak’ only for the Department of State and for the period T9047 to the .- — present, the period of-my participation in the loyalty and 7 security program, but for that Department and for that period, I. .- «= can say configéntly that there are no }mown communists in oe Government, /If there are any secret communists, -- communists who... ~ join nod communist fronts and speak no communist sentiments, \-- ©." - of course I cannot Bay,-for they_are not known, The Hiss case and -'. the case of Judit oplon in. the Department of Justice have done ‘< more harm in teriis of public confidence than any harm Hiss or * { Coplon ever did in the delivery of classified papers. Both worked - \, in absolute secrecy -- their best friends were ignorant of their ng after their acts were discovered./ But a swallow does not make a ; summer, -- neither do these two dases make out an inf}}trat f308 Govesnrent by Conmuntats. ' i : he . ‘ . mnt D + vs.) acts, Neither would have_keen ap But by Government for a day \ net eee rabeos ba coms! : ¥: “bership in @ Party wi a evervhrow ofthe Con- “Ary 5 f Btitutional form of Gov: gnited States. In other \ ae worda, 1¢ has been unl: - “te employ a Communist in ~ we Goypynment. Since Dec? : '+.. \ *) hen the President's loyal « Sines Augue . etesa, +* _Avesep hy ™~ : oe ~ - ¥