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~~ ( : se > rn ore . 5 : 2oo . rorvam was implemented by directive of the Loyaivy nevee of tne Civil Service Commission, the Loyalty Security Board of the Depar'tnent of State has had before it over 500 cases of State Department employees who have been investigated for loyalty by the Fedaral Bureau of Investigation, -- the FBI, -- and_not one case has been found of a present communist working in the state Depart- ment, Over that. period eight employees have been held to. be security rdsks, bub not one of these agmitred present membership in the Communist, Party, nor Was there evidence of present membership. I carnot discuss individual cases, -- a11 I can say is. that some .of these eight had close relatives who: were communists, Bome married communists, and some were alleged to have held sommun iat meetings in their homes and te have had communist affiliations ata remote period in their past. About 40 other employees have elected to resign during the process of investigation and adjudication of loyalty. What might have been found in their cases, had they gone to hearing, of course, I do not know, But this small number -- less than 50 in all -- out of a department of 94,000 employees, -- who have either been held to be security risks or who have for one reason or ancther desired not to face investigation, does not indicate any noticeable infiltration of communists in Government. f "- what. then, 4s all the shouting about: The best and shortest se gy ey eS Se answer I can give you is to ask you to read the articie on “Demagogue MeCarthy, or Weighed in the Balance", -- that appeared in Time Magazine, October 22, 1951. The old saying 1s -- where. there is so much smoke, there must be some fire, There is, however, no excuse for mistaking dust for smoke. The dust in the present case is created by one man, tramping about the nation and making, over and over again, the same baseless and disproved accusations, The one man is able to raise so much dust only betause 1) he is a. Senator of the United States, and 2) he speaks in a loud and. deterriined voice and waves in his hand a bunch of photostats that nobody takes the trouble to examine. so, . On February 9, 2950, after the loyalty program had been two full years under way, Senator McCarthy arose at Wheeling, West Virginia, to say "I have here in my hand a list of 205 -- a list of namés that were made known to.the Secretary of State as being . members of the. Communist Farty and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department," What he had in his hand I do not know, but he had no such list, He may have had a list of 205 employees that Secretary of State Byrnes, almost four years before, on July 27, 1946, had made known to Congress, whose permanent employment had been recommended against by a.State Department sereening committec, and.most of whom by 1950, were no lonzer in the employ of the Department, Senator McCarthy did not again mention the 205 names, -- instead, on Febrpary 20, 1950, on the Senate floor, he claimed to have said on February 9, "I have in my hand 57 cases of in@‘viduals who would appear to be either card- , Loos. " . earrying — - f. Tewalty Review Hoard | 7 | |