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Fd Ne ibe ile nants — MERE I as Mera tare stn My Ar . oh thy valty review boaid meeting Jast | February. made available yester- idayv by Sen. McCarthy (R) of Wis- jeonsin, disclosed sharp criticism 1) ae ‘Loyalty Unit Records Rip State Dept. [Ry Asencleded Press] 1 Excerpts from minutes of a loy- of the State department’s han- dling of its emplove loyalty pro gram. 3l One member af the board, Gar-| rett Hoag of Boston. said the pro-| eram in the State department had) been ‘completely ineffective.” The State department, he said, had the, j“remarkable record of never hav-j , ing fired anybody” on loyalty | ground@s i The minutes also showed that. board chairman Hiram Bingham. fone of the 25 board members. a & er cae said he had called the situation: to the attention of Secretary of State Acheson just a few days, earlier and felt it would be taken!| care of. “The secretary of state was very much impressed by what I said.” ‘Bingham told his fellow board. “members. “He received my _ re- ‘marks ygry kindly.” ee Bingham Silent Yesterday. Bingham said h “would prefer not to make anv comment” on the sitration. He ‘said he is under instructions from : the Civil Serviec commission not: ‘to talk abont operation of the | -lovally program in the various‘ ‘government departments. | The review board is the top! jarency under the program set up iby President Truman in 1947 to | weed disloyal employes out of the rovernment. It passes on the: findings of departmental loyalty) ‘boards. —— -nemiking parts of the minutes | of the loyaliy review board's mect-: ines on Feb. 13 and 14, 1951,) available to newsmen. McCarthy | said he vouched for their authen- | ‘tteity. He did not say how he | ‘obtained them. } \ Bineham. noting that minutes ' ,af the board's meetings are con- ‘fidential, said “I can’t imagine -~how anyone could have got hold ‘of them” except possibly from 1 we” ane nae 952 5 ' MeCarihy Asked Probe_ McCart] - has accuse ne State department of harboring ‘Communists and Re sympa-| bhizers. The Democratic majority | .of a Senate forcign relations sub-: ‘committee, after a lengthy inves. tigation in 1950, dismissed his | [charges as "a fraud and @ hoax." ‘McCarthy retorted that the probe twas a “whitewash.” The transcript of the loyalty jreview board meetings supplied by iMecCarthy dealt largely with a ‘proposed change in the standard ‘so, by the President's executive, order for Lhe dismissal of lederal_ : pmoployes. It originally required a findine| ithat there was reasonable ground, to believe an employe disloyal at, the time. The minutes showed the board veted 13 to 5 to recommend that the standard be changed to; require only a “reasonable doubt”: ‘about an employe’s loyalty. H President Truman issued an’ ‘order on April 28 last year putt&ig, lthis hange into effect. Acheson In Favor Bingham told the board in F ‘Tuary that the State department] jwas anxious to have the chanee; ‘made and that Acheson "was very heartily in favor of it.” i He also saint be had been told! by many peopic in the government | that if the change were made to: permit dismissals on the basis’ of “reasonable doubt” of loyalty. | “it will about double the number’ of cases that can be thrown out which cannot be thiown out now.” | Only last month the State de-' partment announced the dis-' _missal of career diplomat John | Stewart Service after a ruling by | the loyalty review board under} ithe tightened standard that there was “a reasonable doubt" of his lovalty. The order reversed previous clearances given Service by the State department's own loyally hoard. The review board based its findine of whag it called Serv-| lice’s “intentional and unauthor- ized disclosure” of confidential in- formation in 1945 to a left-wing mapazine editor. Service called the board's ac- tion an injusticc and has asked it to reconsider its ruling. ss ites erat —_—— we ee ; + ain a x NOT RECORDED 136 JA ET 1951 ae) Tolson_ Ladd Clege a Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Alden . Belmont Laughlin Mohr Tele. Neagse Gandy Room__. Pag: Times-Herala _/ Wash. Fost Wash. NewS __. Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror ie Date: Janvary 5