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"Accorling to the transeript, the pending change in the regulations was one of the topics ‘nder disenssion at the meeting. "At one point, according to the reperted transcript Lawrence , Heloy, the board's executive secretary mentioned that the State Department's loyalty panel menbers took tne attitude that *they?re there to clear the emp ‘ieatve been arguing with them eincec the program atarted,' Meloy said. "Roard member Garrett Hoag was quoted as saying he was 'disturbed about the State Department--thelr remarkable record cf never having fired anybody for disloyalty.' | "He suggested that perhaps the board ought to call President Truman's attention ‘to the fact that tha program simply does net work in that department, and let him worry abent it,' according to the transcript. "Tt ssems to me,' he was qroted as saylag, ‘We assume some responsibility when wo sit back here for threa years and know that the country rests in. false sense cf sacurity,! wHoag added that the public believes ‘we are looking after their interests here when we know darn well that it (the loyalty program) 4@ completely ineffective 4n one of the most important epartments of the Government, ! "Under the terms of Mrs Truman's loyalty program executive order, he said, the Review Board. should not yarely serve as an appelate court but sheuld supervise the whole loyaity program. "Yt 4a quite intended,' he said, *that we shall keep a weather eye on the whole pregram and presumably do something about i+ when we find that there are fallacies oryl ser’messes.! "Bingham then revealod, according te the reported transcript, that he had taken np the State Yepartment!s Ioyalty program with Acheson re2raonatly the previous Friday. ie ae -"t] called his attention te the fact that his board was out of step with all. other agency boarda,! he cait, oyé and not to protect the government, ! - AM