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bonis $. against diplomats and ect at Pics. thet De- : of uncertain loyalty? - - Senator McCarthy insists i partment claims a perfect record f for loyaity, ” ‘cannot find any. Communist em, ployed, li re-. fuses to take ony blame, for loss of Chine to we * ment Lak 6 4 An Es “Secret fais ‘Reveal Criticism | By Weed 7 or_for other die : bialsa where ¢ questions of loyalty. fave been ralsed, - a, Secret iminutes of the Loyalty Review Boor . th he. Bel Service Commission, revealed iri he i e by Senator McCarthy; ii vé.an aps. by Board members, Here < are several ; from a meeting on Feb. 13 arid 14, 19812 =" Departments, p a : ae enty “ial. just” a “year ago, ‘the s foyalty procedures of the Government B were under, at ack in Congress. Not a Ps single employe of the. Department of *” State, Had been fired on the grotind of disloyalty by, its uwn Loyalty: . Board, though some een ousted after this Board found then “unfit.” Others: re- Sag “ceagonable doubt” “Bised. ‘concerning their loyalty, «> ‘The. Board that hag Bil § say. ‘fn pass- ing upon loyalty of Goverment vorkers met ini February, of last year, It then had a new chairman, Hicart Hingham, a former Republican Senator from necticut. Bingham brought.up.the ques- tion of changing the rules to Bermit dis- signed under investigation, — far 7 other olfcials in highly “sensitive”. ‘pon: fons required unquestioned proof of loy alty before they could be remoy “loyalty” risks, In Congreas,, and Yh th pressure wus building. for ia thange in the White Houde: standards to permit, dismissal of employes » w nere DEAN ACHESON, SECRETARY OF STATE Con- - " partmerit, ‘as you know, removed. He eaid tHal § | Secretary Stag Dean Acheson. fay the change. °¢ J “t think it fs fait to’ say,” Chis Bingham observed, “that the State ‘Del as the worst record of any pases in the action of its Loyalty Boa The Joyalt Board, in all the cased at. have, beer “ reasdriable doubt”, “existed cont ming their: loyalty, The chairman 5 aid - wis informed that if th resident would change the staridard to One of,.“reason- able doubt"—which President,; Roosevelt had used during thé war—it would double | the @ number of individuia who eguld be considered id. the. State : De partmentsé not—fdund— en uly tudes our “toles. it is the! on . which hag actes that. ways": a Pot hen followed this discussion dmiops Board members as revealed by rida Pf ' hitherto secret# Chairman Bingham! ths situ ’ with regard to a few of the cases that J have had the opportunity of _studyitigl has led me to the belief that we should] change [the rule]. For instance, in they ate Dep is a—case ofa man who might be said to be a ritherd f “weak” sister. There is no evidence that he is a Communist,’ flis wife, on thea . other hand, who {s not in the State De partment, has a very close dssociationg with Communists. She, at one time, saw™ . a good deal of them jn the days before§ ’ they went underground {jn Washington “t came to this cohclusion:. that, living with his wife, he was undoubtedly loyal to this wife; and, from all the evidence, am he could not be loyal to his wife and at@il the same time be loyal to the U.S. Gove emment {n the sense in which I think loyalty deserves to be used. There 8 10 way in which you ean get him out ofa the Government service under the pres- ent rule, but you can certainly have reu- @ sonable doubt as to his loyalty .. "§ Garrett 5. Hoag, Board member: % . As far as the State Department is te ~Harrts & Beink He reassured the chairman concemed, [ don't understand their posi- tion at all, because although thelr hoard 3m kas not held their people ineligible un- 3 der the loyalty test, who shoul - U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPQRT a