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tn tes re ers sce tee 7 this notice. However, Miss de Haas told a reporter today she had sent the commission a letter confidential information from the Loyalty Review Board.” ~~ Miss de Haas closed her letter with this slatement: “Yes, my fel- ee Loyalty Ex-Aid Says She Gaver: resignation, effective as of last low Americans, I have given out: Friday. The commissioner an-linformation concerning the infil- nounced latey today that her res-jtration of Communists into the ignation had been accepted. government of our beloved country Miss de Hans is fifty-two veqys/45 8 last desperate expedient of McCarthy Data Worker's : old and a }jawyer. Her job with alerting ihe citizenry. I gave it out Suspended * ke s Ad the Loyalty Review Board paid/deliberately, hopefully and prayer- Tells of Her Secing That!s7.300 a year. Her duties com-|fully. of my own volition, without . prised analyzing and evaluating|reauest, pressure or acknowledge-i He Got Reports on Reds evidence relating to the loyalty of}ment from any one. j WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (M— Federal employees. She had been! “I am glad that I was in posses-' ws ‘ ee “|with the government since 1940./sion of information that might! Miriam de Haas, former employee Earlier, she was a Southern Pres-/help our country and grateful that of the government’s Lovalty Re-|b}‘erian Church missionary tolit has been made public. My only view Board, says she has “given Korea. She is a, native of Rut-jregret is that I have not been able wat information concerning the ledge, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb.to do more to arouse you to the infiltration of Communists inte the Says She Paid for Ad danger our country isin, government” and has “seen to if’! The advertisement in “The| 1 this be Lreason, make the that the information reached Sen.|Times-Herald” ran three columns,|™05* of it Joseph R, McCarthy, R.. Wis. page length, and cost $648, Miss McCarthy's Comment “The Washington Timcs-Herald"|de Haas said. She fold a reporter} At Appleton, Wis., his home published as an advertisement alher decision to publish it was|town. Sen, McCarthy said that “I letter from Miss de Haas, ad-|reached on her own and that shejunderstand now that some of the firessed “To My Dear Fellow Amer-jalone had paid for it. information I had came indirectly feans' which said: Since it appeared, she said. shejfrom Miss De Haas.” 1 did not know Sen. McCartiy./has had numerous telephone calls} ‘I never met her.” the Senator he had no reason to know the|from “one good, kind patriot after/said. “and I frankly was unaware source of his information. and hejanother” and many offered tolat the time that the information is of course unaware that I amlhelp pay for the ad. was coming from her. I do have making this statement... .” Asked whether she had heardjother sources of information." “Devastatingly True’ any work from Sen. MecCarthy,| The reason Miss De Haas lost “The evidence he has passed anjMiss De Haas said she had net, {her job, Sen. McCarthy added, to you has never been successfully Denied by McCarthy was that “she was trying to ex- controverted. and could not be.) At the time she was su pose Communists. j : 5 suspended,| © 1 ays . because the information I suppliedisen, McCarthy said that Miss deltneq cred Cea hag e ee Gov sath 4 cote €, coca ie Haas “positively gave me no in-lsnig “She was one of the really “from sources described by our Fed-[crmation” and added the com-lood, loyal Americans in the d from sources described by our Fed-lment that the Civil Service Com- , JOvas s e de eral Bureau of Investigation aS/mission has “hanged the wrong partment. Cee reliable, : ” ; . erson. “From my reading of his Senate P The letter Miiss d speeches and other statements Ij,,.) 7° .'¢? Milss de Haas pub- know that his repetition of that information directly to @ct given information has been accurate and Carthy bub aivectly “wo sn Mc- exact. ‘ yey { : ave seen fhe pup pas eenereovens rote to it tha pertinent information scratched the surface of evidence we made avallable to him as well of communism in our government."{? $£9 otner members of Congress. Miss de Haas Was suspended The Justice Denartment declinsa Miss Haa suspended ustice Department declined Sept. 4 as an examiner for thelany comment on her Jette Loyaity Review Board—the jopjto note that 4 Brand juryis inquir- agency in the government's 7 nt athe question ofJe gram aimed at rooting out sub- versive employees. Her suspension in ee re ee Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont _ Cle ge Glavin Harho Rosen Tracy Laughlin ___ Mohr___ Winterrowd — Tele. Rm, __ Holloman___ Gandy ] i v ff was on suspicion of leaking confi- Times-Herald dential information, On Oct. 24, the Civi) Service Pash, Post Commission gave her notice of pro- posed dismissal. meaning she Lod — would be dismissed unless she Wash. News — could show cause why she should! not be. . t Sreter inti Nov. 6 to YEP To} Wash. Sear ~~ N.Y. Herald Tribute ___ N.Y. Mirror —_. _. N.Y. Compass — y H Hs 1 , —_—— fo ~ Date: