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State Dept. Chiefs) Seek: F ull He earing BY PAUL BLEACH | Chie} of Our Washikgton Bureau ~ WASHINGTON--President Truman may let the Senate judicl- ary committee have digests of reports on individual State Depart- ment employes whose loyalty has been questioned. That was what Sen. Tydings (D., Md.) was believed to be hint- inf at Monday when he said his investigating subcommittee “hopes” to get essential records withoof subpoena, byt, that he means to a nnn cl get therm. Tydings will start hearings next week on charges by Sen. Mc- Carthy (R., Wis.) that 57 alleged Communists or fellow .travelera are how on the State Depart ment payroll _Both Secretary of State Acheson and John EL Peurtfoy, deputy undersecretary, who conducted F the department loyalty and se curity “purges LENE , since 1947, want sex. TYDINGS a full and complete public hear- ing. They believe the department to be “pure.” They say the McCarthy charges have upset motale among the fiome as well: as foreign em- ployes, A complete alring is nec- essary, they, believe, to Testore that morale. a eee, AcHEsoN WAS cailed for tes- thmony. Tuesday at the closed hearing of ‘a Senate eappropria- tlans subcoromittee studying de- partment requests Yor operating money, ...-* it 1s understood. ‘that. Acheson and Peurifoy would like to throw the gz of ‘hy questioned emplojes McCarthy may name on the\tommittee table. , But, cannot produce records, either on ‘Senate & mittee request or subpoena, pe cause of the President's loyalty the wd 1 tei buderaightiedicn { board procedure directive of March 33, 1948. e ¢e8 ; THAT DIRECTIVE said all files. concerning any employe who had been investigated must be kept confidential. It further said any subpoena or other de mand for those filed should be eferred to the President “for such response as he may deter- mine to be in the public {nterest in the particular case. ” Tt has been common priletice in all government inquiries conducted by the FBI to keep detalls of those reports confi- dential. That }s done to protect sources of information of the FEL .. However, making pubif a sum- mary of findings In any Didivtd- ual case could be ordered by the President. ; + a ar em a t FEB 28 tang W2t522 0 Fr mays me? wl He ‘ ———2 eT = 2 BATE NOT LoL 85 JUL 121950 ee eee suena fee peti et