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- oo age te pied EES 4 * i at wens] page PEN Utena” 7 ose: mpyaily Files.: 7 9 Prestiént Trauma» has not omy’ "#oecon bu precedent going back in President Washington’ 5 day. on his side in): refusal tovtarm” over to congressional committees the secret files of the executive branch. Both Washington and Jackson rejected such demands as an tnconstitutional invasion of fhe authority ef the executive department, But we are not so much interested in prece- dent as in logic, retative to the demand by Sen- sior Joseph McCarthy and others in congress that they be given the secret reports of the FBI on all state department employes, Obviously, Senator McCarthy hopes by that means to stub- stantiate his as yet unsubstantiated charges of disloyalty against Owen J. Lattimore and other stale department associates, Or, perhaps, to pick up at Jeast one hot trail for his political paper chitse, ‘Bre members of congress who are makin ¥ ae t noise about Communicte and hé ve é eniok TS Ae AMUSE GHG Spies, Who n throwing mud and assassinating e agt T. “under the protection of congressional nbinit iffigrom libel suits, could not be trusted to irbatthe loyalty files in a confidential manner. When the FBI investigates a government em- ploye or official, it takes all kinds of statements from many kinds of people with varying motives. The leyalty board shakes down the reports to fet at the teuth, Ta exnace ne truig. 26 expose all these confiden- tial statements to congressional crusaders would lead to the worst sort of mess. Nine tenths of the motive behind these Red witch-burnings is the discrediting of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Truman adminis- tration. Mr. Acheson made a grave errot—it error it was—in proclaiming his personal loyalty to Alger Hiss, who stands convicted of disloyalty to the United States. Bit ve epee eT due ed Malet, aeeeeo, HL OLE WUT position ‘has suffered as a consequence of thé bitter attacks leveled against him and the state department. Henry L, Stimson, Republican elder statesman who served as secretary of war and secrelary’ of state, points out that the “noisy antk’ of a few ready have spattered mud u upin {ndividuals nf : tices integrity.” nin ut