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, | : | | : | | : | 7 | | { | | | | | { 4 | j ! | , cess to such reports have themselves been the subject of investigations because of ~ ~ “Ta anticipate questions that may arise, | might here state that | am not a>" constituent of this Senator, nor am f a Catholic, but a Protestant. What better proof can there be of the danger to our country, and of the integrity of the motives ef those seeking fo combat that danger, than the fact that, true to the principles an which our nation was founded, loyal Protestants, Catholics and Jews are fighting shoulder to shoulder for the country and the God they love, and against their com- mon, Godless anemy! Those of you who are not familiar with the workings of the President’s so- called Loyalty Program may wonder why a faithful, security-conscious employe should have found it necessary ta take the action | have. For instance, what about ~ the Federal Bureau of Investigation™ Our wonderful FB! has the authority only to investigate. It can take no action with respect to the damaging information it uf- earths, {ts lips are sealed and its hands are tied After producing seriously deroga- tory reports concerning a subversive employe of the Government, the FBI usually” sees its labors rewarded by a form letter from the Loyalty Review Board stating that, the person in question has been “retained” in his position. Sometimes the FSi in desperation brings the facts to the attention of an assistant attorney general in the hope that the Loyalty Review Board can be induced to give a second look at the ~ case. What does the Board do? At first it became insulted that the FBI should pre- sume to question ifs decisions. Then it decided ta merely ignore such communi-_ cations. . Before you question or condemn the final resort of an American citizen to her representatives in Cangress, and the efforts of the latter to protect you, it should also be brought to your attention that afte- leaving the FBI, its reports of loyalty in- g- vestigations pass through many hands in the Federal agencies. Perhaps you will be surprised to learn that scores of persons on the agency loyalty boards who have ac: derogatory information concerning their own foyalty. The Loyalty Review Board ‘ has made little it any effort ta insure that such persons are, like Caesar’s wife, above suspicion. Furthermore, there are -even cabinet members and their assistants who have been the subjects of loyalty investigation, yet these officials have access to FBI reports. A great cloud of dust has been deliberately stirred up about Senator MeCarthy’s “methods” -—a piece of Daily Worker Propaganda gulped dewn by many people. Just what "'method’’ would you use, my fellaw Americans, if you were personally in possession of an atomic bomb which af any moment might go off and wreck your country? Would you carry it tenderly under your coat, wrapped in cotton, men- tion it in whispers, and ask Stalin’s sympathizers the best way to “prove” that this bomb is in your possession? What could anyone do, but try to tell the people of this country of the danger they are in, try to make them understand what is happening to our nation and our way of life? Would you whisper it? Would vou write it in gentle epistles to the press and the Department of Justice marked hopefully ’R.S.V.P."? Would you, as did members of fhe LRB in their now famous meeting in February, 1951, sit behind closed doors and mumble virtuously in your beards that: “For the past three years the people of the country have rested in a false sense of security that we are down here protecting their interests, when we know darn well that we are not?” No, you would shout it from the housetops, wouldn't vou? But when a United States senator similarly stands up and passes on to you, his fellow countrymen, in an uraent beseeching voice the facts conveved to him, frightened Communist sym- pathizers shriek about his “methods’’ and naive innocents parrot the ery. What other “method” is there by which honest, enlightened Americans, denied# i the proper facts by the head of their own country, can awaken that country to its e? great danger before it is too tate: