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. io % 4 2 ae —e C. 3 CO - - Bap, . . yield amhara or serte tn iw Javel to th he Cammuniat rm if iS mboers ve Ves yo aniy ey Oe Unist but who nevertheless are still helping to: shape our ‘toveisa ‘‘policy". Later on he presented to a sub-committee of the Senate &a list of 80 names of persons whose loyalty. files, he.claimed, — ‘ Would suppert hie charges. As a matter of fact, half of the 80 Were no-ljonger, in 1956, employed by the Department of State, and the other half, after FBI investigations, had been cleared for loyalty by the Loyalty-Security Board of the Department. As to these-40 still in the employ of. the Department the 2 Senator had no new information, -- all he had was allegat ona, 3 . biown up and colored by his own imagination, which were contained = fin the loyalty files themselvés and which had been made available by the Department, in 1947, to a Committee of the 30th Congress. To this day, despite all his clamor ebout communists in the - State Devartment, I am not. aware of a single. item of new evidence of digloyalty wuich Senator McCarthy has contributed for the- assistance of the Loyalty-Security- Beard in ite continuing and “continuous efforts ta-pags on all allegations of disloyalty. The Board thought the other day that 1t might have geome help from the Senator. He had alleged on the floor of the Senate that a Department employee was associating with a communist. On inquiry made of the Senator for the name of the. communist, -his- ‘office: repiied -- the Senator had had. the name. in his hand when hs made the Btatement, on @ Slip of paper, but he had lost. ‘the paper. > . Ty ‘@his 1a Mec arthyiem, | -- the making of ‘baseless ‘accusations | ‘regarding the loyaity and integrity of public officers and’ em- | Floyees, by @ pergon Who is himself in high public office and” ho uses hia office at one and the same time as a platform from hich to shout his accusations ani as a screen to protect himself j from action for defamaticn. The purpose of it all is, of course, not the public interest, but political advancement in 4 period or public, tension and excitement. . - ; This bringe me to the second point. “hat Bbout the Lovaltv rings me to the second point. What about Program, designed to prevent infiltration. of government by com- Tintern and, in fact, antedating McCarthyism by two full years? The program was initiated by the. President on March 21, 1947, by Executive Order 9835, but not implemented: until the’ issuance of the puiding directive, on December 17, 1947, by the Loyalty Review Board, established in the Civil Service Commission uncer Seth W. Richardson, -- Republican Assistant Attorney General under Herbert Hoover. The purpose of tne program was 1) .te assure that all emplcyees of the Government are of complete and unawerving loyalty to the United States, 2) to give to the United States maximum rrotection against the infiltration.of disloyal persons, and 3) at the same time to protect the loyal employees of the Government from ‘unfounded accusations. - Even prior’ to the ‘Implementation. of Executive order 9835 the State Department had taken action. Under the so-called - McCarran Rider in the annual appropriation act, the Secretary — of S:ate poaseaged the power of summary dismissal of employees, “whenever he shall deem it necessary or advisable in the interest of the United States". On June 9, 1947, General Marshali, Secretary of State, appointed a Personnel Security Board, to review the records of State Department personnel for termination of ail “security risks". I was appointed Chairman of that Board, which, in December’ 1947, . became the Loyalty-Security Board of the State Department, with the. dipey. of applying both the loyalty standards that had been eet up ty Seth Richardson's Loyalty Re- view Board, and the Securi*y rfinoiples that had been previously nade a part of State Department Regwiations. Already by December fre ® Board had recommended the “eS emissal of ten emproyees as sO ee tls ‘security wee cn ee ee eee neg :* Fe te reap reman ete oe