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we MISS r HAAS LOYALTY STAND etters, Donations Pour In fe BY GLYNN HARVEY “T never knew so many people camld be so kind...” Miriam de Haas. whoa lost He! job with the lovelty review bagrd because she took its work serioudly, shuffled thru a sheaf of letters. Mail from other Americans who yead her credo in last Sunday's Times-Herald and had taken the time and trouble to write a tet. ter of appreciation. Miss de Haas smiled wistfully. “I shouldn't say thal, 1 ruess,” she said. “I suppose I always knew people are basically kind, But these, somehow, remove tnat feeling of being so alone.” Donations Inclesed Some of the letters inclosed do-, nations to help defray the cost of. he advertisement in the Times | erald which the suspended clerk | aid for out of her own slim say. ' ngs. For more than 10 years Miriam de Haas served her government, efficiently and enthusiastically, , until she felt compelled to relay! io Sen. Joseph McCarthy pifvy information regarding Commy ist , infiltration In government. From that day, Miss De Haas’! hours a5 & clerk With the Lovally'| Review Board were numbyred— and she knew it. But she b= regrets. LN “T would do it again,” sim firmly, “I have never he misgivings, from the day my decision. I knew tha was doing was the rigi - ene an American, te © other course.” aan C ron . a ere NS Wooo, CARNE. he Sa A singple team with a homespun emotional response. Her sudden projection into the public press has been painfully emtbarrassing to her. Just as the stream of Irtters {rem grateful Americans. some containing little donations. have filed) her with conflicting emotions of humility ghd gratification, Cencern for Moerasity Her personat vendetta against. eds in government service goes back to 1942 when, she said, she began to become aware of the Communist. infiltration. “IT went to Sen. Hiram Jo) son (who died in 1945) to see if he could do anything.” Miss de Haas shrugged. "But he said we cold do nothing. We were allics then, of course (with Russia).” Miriam de Haas’ concern about Communist infiltration in govern- ment is matched by an equal con- cern for the warped morality ol, numerous young government: workers—neither Comununist nor: llaw-travelers—-who are willing i string along with a situation ic tn hey imtalaralbioa vat is, to her, intolerable. “Their education seems to have been completely distorted,” she, exclaimed. "I don't know . ..! old-fashioned patriotism seems | be something shameful. They}e not Communists, mind vq. They're fine young Americans. but they've so afraid—so afraid of being called reactionaries.” The woman who braved the ‘same slut shook her head wonder: ingly, She was educated before \the parlor and classroom inte ectuals began rewriting the di ifionaries and changing the mea‘} nes of words. In her schoolday4., ‘bne pointed out patriotism was, faker seriously. And when she: encountered red she could call by its name. Pov react re fey i" fas one , | Tol ri ithede et. riter described her Lal F star-chambr®, dismissal from gov- ‘ernment service) doesn’t weigh Nichols, too heavily on Miss de Haas. Belmont __* “Tam only one,’ she said sim-' Cl ‘Aly and humbly, “My sacrifice—: *!egg_—___ lif vou could call it that-is a2 Glavin__ ‘small one if it serves my country... ‘i Harbo i Ii was stiggested that a new ministration might open the w ‘to restoring Miss de Haas to h civil service job. She pondere ‘the possibility for a moment, }/e4¥ghlin.___ { "Y don't know,” she sald finally. \Mohr “Qertainly, I would like to have! ‘tHe recerd (of my suspension) ex-: Tele. Rm____ ngnged. It would be a source of Holloman __ idgep satisfaction to me to be vin-|Gandy ;dicated." | She felt that the reelection of ‘Sen. McCarthy was a measure of | ‘Vindication. But she agreed the} ‘dismissal of the charge against, ler would be final vindication, 1 Civt! Service Charge Miss de Haas is charged, not ‘With praviding Sen. McCarthy ‘with information (which is ef- ‘tirely permissible under the civil service Code), but with refusiye ‘to answer questions before a ci wervice board of inquiry. | JThese were questions relating | itp testimony which Miss de Haas! pave before. a grand jury. Testi-. ‘gony which, by its very nature,| i _ confidential. | | ! r) / - 3. Times-Herald 1 & @ i Jf wash Post 5 Wash. News Cry Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N.¥. Compass