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i i 5 RRR er aber) Bee te Bg THE WASHINGTON Tuesday, January 8 1952 POS T ' Service, Appeal Denied by Loyalty Board, farries Disnussal to Truman and MeGrath The Civil Service Loyalty Re- view Board yosterday refused ; to reconsider its decision that! there is “reasonable doubt” of the lovatly of career diplomat, John StewartSacviec. Service's attorney, Charles E. Rhetts, in turn appealed directiy ; to President Truman, Attorney General McGrath and the Civil Service Commission for an “im- partial” review of the entire case. The Review Board, in what would ordinarily be the last word in any loyally case, noti- fied Service yesterday that his motion asking the board to wipe out or reconsider its decision “has been duly considered .. . and has been denied.” Service, one of the State De- partiment’s several Far East ex- perts who came under avy én December 14 after the top loyalty board ruled against him. That overturned six previous clearances by the State Depart- ment's own Loyalty-Security rd. *Rhetts. in his unusual appeal for further review of the case, yesterday poinicd out that on Sunday the newspapers carried j what Senator MeCarthy de- scribed as transcripl excerpts of Loyaliy Review Board meetings held on. Febreary 13 and 14. Hiram Bingham had protested to Secretary of State Acheson that while the State Department missal rate was 6 pereent of the employes challenged. If that statement is accurate. said Rhetts, it shows the board officials are concerned with “achieving a statistical quota of dismissals ...on loyalty grounds.” It reflects, he said, that the board conceives its function to “devise ways and .means of achieving large numbers of dis- missals of employes on loyalty grounds rather than to consider and judge individual cases individual and to the Gover ment in matters of the utmést gravity to both.” “If accurately reported,” said Rhetts, “this revelation obvious- ly brings into grave doubt the fairness of the cntire machinery of the Loyalty Review Board.” “Because no forma! machinery exists for appeals from the Board,” he said, “this appeal is being lodged with the Presi- dent, the Civil Service Commis- sion, and the Attorncy General.” The President, he said, is re- sponsible for assuring that the Program does not work "grave ices to loval and devoted inmwayst AAPUSULCA we citizens”; the Attorney—desaral They showed Board Chairman should have been ealicd on to ma rth INDEXED - {had dismissed no one for loyalty, | in other departments the dis- action’ of the Loyalty Review: . 40" / f dae > ‘determine the Review Board's -power, and Civil Service is the parent bedy directly responsbile for the board. Rheitls ask for an “impar- jtial individual or individuals, inot connected with the Loyalty Review Board, ta review { ¢ en- ;Ure ease, to hold hearings and [take teslimnoy.” He also said i Service should bc furnished with ialt FBI reports which have been filled in his case. Service was cleared on a va- iTicly of charges involving aj- Ieged pro-Communist activities, /but was turned down as a loy- alty risk for supplying classi- former magazine, Amerasia. Service said there was no se- crecy involved, for he said the documents were his own reports which he had a right to declas- Ha fe was a reputable writer, enti ‘to the informalion for “ Bround” use. Sify. said he thought J é fal-2 5797 -4 NOT RECORDED 136 JAN 17 1951 solely upon the evidence in al, . MTs judicial spirit of fairness to sf ot hee dor at ie