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Tie 61 Files —— The President's decision to let the Ty- dings Subcommittee se see e State 1 Department loyalty Ty files re reflects, ¥ no ‘doubt, a conviction that these files will ‘show T fT o carelessness in in respect of Séci will at last. silence | Senator “McCarthy's s howing. Even 1 assuming, as we do, that, the Tresidentis right in his conviction, “the hope unlikely to be realized. If “Senator Melarthy and the little clique of colleagues thal” has ralfied is “his dubious standard wore ‘open to reason, he would Cnave been silenced eed Tong _AgO. so, Whalever the files “con- tain, ; they “will n nol satisfy Senator or McCarthy, ity “and a hope that they invent new xcuses for nen. The files to be made available to th whcomm 'Llee are not the so- called “ray ahs chai gts and few being unable to substantiate us” f1e Wilk FEDY reports is, Diselosure of of “them is there: fore. Apen to many ny of t the | same objections that the President jent_expressed so_vigorously les3_ than a! a forinight ago in_bis address to, tha Federal Rar Association. Anica “The nreser- ear AsoeCau aa Pp: ee vation of the slrictest confidence with re- spect to loyalty files is the singie most im- portant element in operating a loyalty pro- piam which provides effective security for the Government and jusuice for the indi- vidual employe,” he said... “Opening these files would reveal FBI proces rocedures and fiethods. It might reveal highly secret in- Ton ¥ “vital ‘to our “national security and ions, “Disclosures of “these. ff “Fics would. Tesull_in scriows in- justire to to to the. “reputation — of many in innocent pers 8005." ee er degree of the FBI 3 reports i contained in in the State Department_files. Information conveyed jn them could well be of such a nature aS to make the source apparent or to reveal the techniques by which it was procured. It does not seem to us that this danger is appreciably altered by the Presi- dent’s belated discovery that the files in question were shown to four congressional committees two years ago. The more they are shown, the greater is ihe risk of leakage. —_— v + _ we eed _ fe } é t a -———-_., “The siittest confidence will be mremrrient on the members of the subcommittee. Tolson t w Ladd = - Geng (-“earvén Ni choy ; Rosen Tracy Harbo “ Belmont_“ Mobr Tele. Nenge Gandy 4 Room this is observed, Senator McCar thy will not ye ‘ be privy to the contents of the files. Before- this appears in print he will doubtless have complained that the President’s action deprives him of ihe means to prove his points. He has already taised a clamor that the be given access to FBI files. A And 1 this in ‘spile of the f fact that he himself declared i ‘his Senate sp speech of February 20: “When call Tor a disloyalty file I do not mean tha Yam calling t of the source of information. | ‘pubtiethe Source oF the infomiahon.” ‘The only hope that the President's sur- render of the vital State Department docu- ments can prove genuinely effective lies in the possibility that the Senate of the United (States, including members of Senator M Carthy’s own party, will decide to put a end at last fo his exceedingly dangerou: byuffooner Y; / f » ~ ‘ na Page _Y Times-Herald ___ \e 7" ‘- ae “ae gs BS Wash. Post B- eet Wash. News —— Wash. Star ___ N.Y. Mirror Date: pay = '¢ 1950