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gees by re ede oa | ep ene nquisitors Hid The Times-Nerald yesterdqu ‘revealed @_.secrit campaign af landimidation by the Truman Ag- ministration. against a middie- oged woman government emplave | Becatise she was suspected of help- ng “to expose Communists in govern mens. The tale of ruthicss | persecution, based omercly on’ fuspicion is concluded today. BY WILLARD EDWARDS Federal inquisitors did not dis- close the true reason for brow- beating Miss Miriam M. De tags. /52. a lovaliy review board empl junti after seven months of privat “ ftidning and two grand jury sessions. | From January to late July, the iharassinent of Miss DeHaas had ‘Presumably been based on suspl- For Harassing See Peru (0 Bmptoves T M tive Dawyers state that“titte=ese of: rue O lve ithe grand jury as a weapon dy! ‘the executive department, seeking! ' to punish a government employ €.: {ss De Ha could establish a precedent en .dangering the freedom of all fed-: . ‘eral employes. Saved From Inquiry : Under the Constitution, the Davdd Demarest Lloyd. a Wifte legistative, judicial and executive House assistant who reportediy|powers are separate and distinct. ghostwrites some of Mr. Truman’s'In the DeHaas case, the Adminis-: speeches and statements. In a Sen-|tration appears to have used the ate speech Jan. 15, MecCarthy;grand jury system as an tnvesti- (charped that Lloyd was saved|eative arm of the executive from a lovalty inquiry by White department, preparatory to pumni- House pressure. He put ino eh TT action against a civil service record a letter, apparently from'commission employe. the review board files, written by Such employes are supposed to Seth Richardson. former chair. be protected against unfair dis- man, to White House assistant missal thmt many regulations Dawson. Richardson reported that providing for legal counsel, written a loyalty board panel had recom. charges, hearings, appeals and naed that charges be filed: other legal privileges. and afl the files in his caselinterrogators in private MrCarthy reported to the Senate. torney. not informed of her lezal MC LATUILY TEPOTieda tO tne SNA. LOrney, NG IMOrmMta Sl mer seks There were other names on the rights. nor told why she was brine Miss De- against Lloyd. But Lloyd was even-|Haas. the recard shows, had nore: tually cleared without a hearing|of these. She was hauled before; session were locked up in the While Hotuse,!and without notice, denied an at-’ icion that she was the government list, including John Carter Vin- questioned. Two summonses before “leak” in connection with the cnt former chief of the China-a grand jury followed, jPublication of a loyalty review division of the State depariment,| If the methods of the DeHaas board's minutes early this year. janeled in a Senate internal se-.case are followed in the future, it hen. on July 29, during a erill-icurity report last July as iniluen-;was noted, any government ert. fe | | | | jing of the woman employe by Col.ltial in bringing about a chanze Jafies F. Hatcher, chief of the-in United States policy favorable: invpstigation division of the Civil.to Chinese Communists: and John! Seavice commission, the basic mo-|P. Davies ir, a State department! tive behind the long interrogations ‘yeteran, accused of perjury by [WAS made plain. ;the same committee. Shown Loyalty Files 1 Jessup Also Listed Hatcher confronted Miss De-! There was also the name of Am- {Haas with a Hst of loyalty files bassador at Larse Philip C. Jessup,: which. the record showed, had atiaccused by McCarthy of Com-! various times been in her Dogges--munist proclivities, whose app sion during her duties with the/meMt as a United Nations deléfate loyalty board. It contained the: was rejected by a Senate subcom- names of 35 persons, celebrated. mittee JIast year. Mr. Truman in recent loyalty inquiries, includ-. waited until after Congress had!! ing the following: adjourned and sent Jessup to the Phileo Nash, 42, an assistant to Paris conference in defiance of the President Truman in charee of Senate dictum. ‘advising on “minority preblems.”| But it appeared that the reveln- A former lecturer at the University itions concerning the two While Angton in 1941 with the office of. reason for ‘war information which as chim to the White House. Presidential wrath. ned transialed into a campaign of nm a'fright against a woman employe, Senate speech last Jan. 30, --en. suspected of being McCarthy's McCarthy said the loyalty be. -r@) informant. ‘files on Nash showed he had been Miss DeHaas has denied that |Rdcused as a member ef the Com. she gave any inforniation to _atiy impnist party “in clo contact unauthorized person, which woyid! wh the Communist umcerground include McCarthy, but she tole her in, Washington,” McCarthy said the files showed. for the federal] bureau of investien- that -Nash's former home in To- tion. She charged that Hateher ronto had been used by a Cane- then warned her against giultie dian snv ring as a rendezvous in information to the FBI. an aceu- Manan OM faK @ Yenmeer Cus Mb iniGihmalion vO wnt raga, an ACCU the early ‘40s. ” After the White sation later denied by the investl- House loyalty board cleared Nash, gator, McCarthy said, the loyalty review board asked for a hearing bwtitieessions at which she was crilled'’ ald Dawsonehite-Mouse adminis- sel. Miss DeHaas was summonedi jtrative assistant. twice before a federal grand jury. of Toronto, Nash came to Wash-;House aides had been the hiddemr<er? of Col, was denicd the Nash files by Don- at great length, without legal coun., ' She answered all questions readily. i il ptove incurring his superiors’ tanger, who refuses to submit to ‘private grilling in a non-criminal matter, may be thrust before a terand jury and forced to testify lunder pain of imprisonment fer i contempt. HT Ti pene andead tn ie Errand dury is intended VAs Fascertain facts for possible crim. yitval Prosscution but it could be iused, as in the DeHaas case, to oin Samidate and obtain information INeading to grounds for dismissal (from employment. i A_portion of the Lranscript of | Miss DeHaas’ questioning _; bY Hatcher was disclosed in a pupvi- ous article. Additional extraqts. made public here, show the cén- Hatcher over fhe woman employe’s contacts with the FBI. “Do demanded you imply,” ‘Hatcher during the three-hour grill: ing, “that you talked with the FBI about commission business iwhich vou would not disclose with, questioners of confidential reports commission officials? “I did not say,” responded Miss DeHoaas, “that I was talking to the FBI about commission bug) ness. I don't intend to go inlo anv details about my dealings In addition to star chamber | vith the FRI. I think I'm still en- .tiled to that much privacy. | i intend to inform the FEI that. jlend to tell inem that I have beg, ~jealled in by vor without a necond]s ieetcesancd asked whal I've givdh to the FBI. i have been so questioned. I i 7 Tracy \ Laughlin____ Mohr Tele, Rm ___ Hsllaman we ee ne Ot Co MG Dp Qs SEP 26 1952 es Times-Herald 2 Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Compass _—_ od as