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Unsuitable for the Government
‘ By PETER EDSON
. NBA Washingion Correspondent
WASHINGTON—This isn’t Hallowe’en by seven
months, though all the witch-hunts now going on
in Washington might make you think so. The town
is spy crazy. .
The latest coal oil to be poured on the flesh and
soul-searing flames of this inquisition is bound to
come from a footnote on page 498 of the hearings
on the Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill, justi
made public in the House. At the reguest of Re-~
publican Congressman Richard B. Wigglesworth of
Milton, Mass., State Deparunent Budget Officer
Harry M. Kurth has here inserted a statement
showi};g that, as of mid-March, a recheck on the
personpel records of 3000 employes recently trans
ferred to the State Department from war agencies
demonstrated 243 “unsuitable for continued em
ploynignt in the State Department.”
This statéement probably needs a little amplify
ing if it is not to cause a lot of hysteria.
At the end of the war, what was left of several,
war agencies was dumped in the State Department
lap’ for absorption or liquidation. From the Office
of War Information, the Office of Inter-American
Affairs, the Foreign Economic Administration, the
Army and Navy Intelligence services, and the Of=-
fice of Liquidation for surplus property came 11,-
000 war-time employes. About half were overseas
and half in the United States. This number has
already been cut to about 4400, and it will be fur
ther reduced, so that the entire State Department
payroll next year will number around 3800 em
ployes. 5
NO SPIES OR COMMUNISTS
NECESSARILY INVOLVED -
'):he 7000 or more who resigned or who were let
out in this curtailment were given the equivalent
of honorable discharges. Their war jobs had folded,
and the government had no further need of their
gervices, There is nothing against their records.
The 4000 or more who' were rotained were then
subjected to a double check. A security screening
committee was appointed to review every em
ploye's record. The committee’s membership has
not been announced, so as to protect it from in
fluence. The job of rechecking is now only three
fourths done, with the above-mentioned result that
243 war-time employes have been shown the door.
It is.nut to inferred that all ‘or any of the 243
were necessarily Commies, spies, or worse. They!
were just found ‘“unsuitable for government ser-‘
vice.” During the war many of these people were
employed because they had special knowledge of
some foreign language or country. In the rush of‘
the war, the Civil Service Commission was not
able to check every record. That is what the re
check was for. |
In a few of the cases, character references were
not good enough. False statements on applications
ruled out a few more. Moral turpitude was in
volved in some dismissals. And, of course, ques
tionable loyalty got others.
40 PER CENT HAD BAD RECORDS |
No breakdown on the 242 cases is being an
nounced, but, rouyghly, 30 per cent were aliens, 30
per cent had not been naturalized for 15 years, so
were ineligible for foreign service, and 40 per cent
had derogatory reports in their records. This last
might include anything from having a criminal
past to being a Red.
The point is that anyone who works for the gov
ernment must be 100 per cent above suspicion. Let
it be known that a government employe ever did
any}}mg unusual, like fan dancing or holding cult
‘meetings in his home, and out he must go. v
It is this mania for dead-level normalcy that is
‘responsible for much of the spy hysteria in Wash
ington today. ;
i I&’:’explaips why the House Judiciary Committee
‘has been authorized to reopen the case against
i ml State Department people who were accused
fi;year of possessing secret documents without
‘authorization, even though g federal grand jury
_dismissed the charges against them.
L It explains why Chief Counsel Ernie Adamson
if the House Un-American Committee is in Oak
lge, Tenn., investaigating the records of atomic
Waiting For “The Word"
" On Governor’s Race
Among the Marines there is a saying, waiting
for “the Word” which means waiting for the “of
ficial dope.” Those of us who wanted Ellis Arnail
to succeed himself as Governor have been, since
January, waiting for “the word” on the choice of
a “People’s Candidate” for Governor. So far, the
people have not given “the word.”
Many ouistanding Georgians have been proposed
for the Governarship within the ‘last two or three
months but judging by the actions of Governor
Arnall himself he does not interpret the reaction
of the people to their profiered candidacies as
meriting sending out “the word.”
Meanwhile, two former Governors are doing
the spade work necessary for winning a race for
Governor. They are, to use an expression of one
of the aspirants for Governor, “psychological can
didates,” both with followings of formidable pro
portions.
We do not pretend to know whom the people
will choose as their candidate, nor do we yet know
for whom we will vote, but the fact is, sad as it
may seem to some, the race of today is between
former Governors E. D. Rivers and Eugene Tal
madge. -
Indeed, the size of the shadows cast by the
phantom-like movements of these two “psychologi
cal candidates” must intrigue if it does not baffle
students of political psychology.
National Air Policy
American aviation remained at a standstill for
seven years after World War I, while Europe soared
far above and beyond us. Then, in 1925, came the
report of the Morrow Board, which co-ordinated
the 24 aviation investigations and reports made
since 1918, added its own recommendations, and
presented them in a coherent pattern which be
came the legislative framework for our belated ad
vance in air commerce and air power.
That power reached its peak, of course, during
the last four years, through broad authorities and
immense expenditures under the War Powers Acts.
But now, nearly a year after V-E Day, we are in
a position not unlike that of 1919. We still have
a national air policy based on the Morrow Board
recommendations. In the light of 20 years’ ad
vancement, it is not much better than the nothing
of the seven lean years after Armistice Day. |
There is one cheerful prospect, however. In
about a month hearings are scheduled to begin
on the so-called Mitchell Bill, which would es~
tablisn a National Air Policy Board of nine mem-i
bers appointed by the President. 4
The bill’s author, Sen. Hugh Mitchell of Wash-!
ington, would have this board report within three
months on the questions which seem to be most
urgent and vital to our aviation future. ¥ ‘
Among them would be the government's poli-'
cies toward technical progress in air transporta
tion, the size of our peacetime air forces and their
co-ordination with government agencies related to 6
aviation and transportation, the maintenance of a
balanced and expansible. aircraft production, the
relation of civil to military aircraft industry, the
adaptation of wartime improvements to existing
modes of air transportation, and, finally, the co
ordination, strengthening, and preservation of all
types of the nation’s commercial transportation.
That's a large and jaw-breaking order, but it
needs filling. There are plenty of varied aviation
reports available today, as there were after World
War I. But again they require tying together. The
single voice or experience of any one government
agency, branch of service, or division of industry
cannot begin to give the whole picture.
Our need of a new, intelligent national air policy
is tremendous. Much has been said about the fact
that our present military aircraft are obsolete. But
our research and technological equipment is like
wise obsolete. This is a day of revolutionary ad
vancement in aviation. This country must start
from scratch, know where it's going, get on the
way, and be sure of getting there. :
The Mitchell Bill locks as if would be able to
give us the needed start. It may be hoped that
Congress will give it the careful consideration that
its important subject matter deserves,
Delay and the Draft
Enlistments have failed to bring our peacetime
Army to the size that our national strength, posi
tion, and safety seem to require. This has been
pointed out to Congress and to the public by most
of our top military men, and it has been clearly
implied by the Secretaries’of State, War, and Navy.
Their agvice and warnings have pointed toward
one ‘unpleasant but inescapable solution—exten
sion of the draft.
Yet Congress continues to temporize and dodge
the issue. The latest delay is the Senate Military
Affairs Committee’s decision to hold two weeks
of public hearings on extension of Selective Ser
vice, which expires May 15.
It is difficult to see what these hearings can ac
complish, beyond the delay itself. Certainly, oppo
sition to draft extension can be found. The con
tinued calling up of young men, even in relatively
small numbers, is painful and unpopular. But
when all the objections are in, it is likely that the
necessity, as ‘set forth in expert testimony, will
remain.
And worse than the delay, it seems to us, is the
way that congressional opinion has shifted with
shifting international currents. .When tension with
Russia was highest, a year's extension of the draft
seemed a foregone conclusion. After Prime Min-~
ister Stalin’s conciliatory statement, the temporiz
ing was resumed.
We cannot ‘trim our military requirement to the
unpredictable changes in Russian policy. The size
’of our Army is a long-term consideration. It must
take into account the fact that there will be many
disturbances and tensions for some time to come.
It cannot shrink or expand as Mr. Stalin coos ot
biusters.
If we Americans believe .in freedom and the
democratic way of life, then we must be strong
and stand up for it all over the world.—Rep. Fran
ces P. Bolton (R.) of Ohio.
You can’t give returns to management alone, you
can’'t give it to the salesman alone, and you can’t
give it to labor alone. If any one of them doesn’t
get a share of the effort they put into producting
more, then you won’t get more production.—Under
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XXIII Rovg
Ann, in sweater, ond slacks,
was basking in the sunroom, re
veling in tae gleams of sunshine.
Outside, everything was fresh
and green, new-washed by a be
lated spring showcr It had been
just a small shower, too brief and
light to do any damage to.the
rew wing ol the any house, now
well under way.
Ann had set to work planning
an addition right aiter Jock and
Nina’s overnight visit. She saw
then that the wous2 really was
too small. Now she poreq oOver
her papers, oblivious to--the
sound of hammering. - :
- “Hi, darling,” she ~murmurell
to Colin, as he caaie inte the
‘room. ;
~ He pulled a footsiool over be
side mer, and sat down.
Absently, she groped for his
bang and gave it a brief affec..
tionate snueeze. “Livod, an ‘
gon’t you think—" A
“Ann,” Colin said, a curious
urgency in his voice
She looked up, then, and saw
his face, grave and « little wo~-
ried. ‘What .ig it, honey? Don’t
| tell me they’ve skippela divident
'and we have to stop work on the
house!”
He smiled then, and hugged
her briefly. “My darling wife
and her single-track mind! No
money is the least of my WO~
ries.” A
“What ig it. then’’
He seemed to find it a little
difficult to continue, and hesi
tated. “Woula you mind aw;fu.lly
if T went away for a while?”"
Ann said, grinnirg, “Den’t tell
me 1 have a rival!” !
“Um huh. Her name¢ is Julie
and she can't seem tp get BOlng
amidst all the hullabaloo, Seri
cusly, Ann, I can’t seem. {o write
in tae middle of all this tumult,
end it seems curiously ‘important
to me—more so than. anythin:
've ever done, somehow.”
Ann looked conscience-strick
en “Darling, I had no “‘idea iv
aisturb you. Sort of silly of me,
too, 1 suppose—if you can’t evei
write with me in the room. And
T haven’t paid any attentibn to
what you’re doing. fs it a new
rovel. Colin? May 1 read it?”
“It's a new novea — a rataer
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If the Truth Were Known
lbri_e{ one, I think [ don’t want
you to read it—not yet, anyway.
{sut I taought I'q go up to my
chack in the mountairs and real
1y work on it. That :s, of course,
if you don’t minc.”
‘H‘l:!E)'wmlong would you be
gone?vy. . :
“A couple of mcnths perhaps.
No longer. You could get Susiz
to- come stay with you—l
youldn’t want you tc be alone.”
“Al] right” Apn said.
~ “You don’t mind, do you?”
She smiled brigatly. ‘Of course
not. I'll have a lovely time. I'll
set my hair in ping and' cover
my face with tissue (ream every
wight.”
¢ 5 “Which you’ve ‘been simply
Nearnine. to dn all along?”
# “Could hardly stand it.” she
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softly.
She wrinkled up aer nose at
him. ‘Angel!” she said. and lean
ed forward to kiss him.
Ann finished her weekly bud
2Zet of news to Colin, and signed
it “Your Ann.” Then she added
a postscript. “It’s incrcdible how
much T mise my ausband.® An:i
that, she reflected, .wag literally
true. Perhaps this had been A 2
smart mave on Colin’g part, in
mare woavs than one. She ad
dressed the envelope .sealed and
stamped iy, put on & Jacket and
started her walk to town to mail
it. One mail a week to tae ran
ger station. She’d gel a letter
from Colin tomorrow or the next
day. !
Ag she passed the Home, she
rangpt a glimnse of Mrs. Christ
mas in the side garden, so turn
ea 'in. ‘Hullo, lady!” she called.
“How are you .anc all the cail
gren.” . S
“Good 'mornin’, Aunn dearie’
Mrs. Christmas said. ‘You're
lookin’* mighty blovrain’ this
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!momin‘. What do yow hear from
that husband of yows?”
“Nothing uniii Wwinorrow-—ne
qoesii’t wrile me very muci these
days. Can’t spare the time from
hic dariing Julie.”
Mrs. Christmgs looked startled.
“What’s that you say'” >
“Don’t be alarmed—Julie isn’t
flesh and blood. She's the he
rcine of his new story,” Ann ex
plained.
‘Are you going dcwn to get tae
mail?”
“Yes. And see the doctor,” she
added. !/ .
“You ain’t sick are you?”
“Of course not. I'm stwell. As
|a maiter of fact,” she added, in
12 sudden burst of confidence
ll‘m pretty sure I'm going tv
have a baby, and I want to find
‘uut definitely.”
“Well!” said Mrs. Christmas.
“Does Mr. Colin' koow?”
Ann shook her head. “And
ycu needn’t thingk I'm going tc
tell him, and twiave him come
rushing back here and maybe
ruin his perfectly good book.”
The old lady noddecd her head
slowly. ‘After all, it ain’t ‘'much
to do with him now,” she mur.
mured.
“That’s the way I felt aboat it
—vou’re a lady aftier my ‘own
Feart. Susie wag all for getting
bim right back heve”
“Susie?” Mrs. Christmas said,
really startled this 7ime.
Ann nodded. “She’s living wita
me now, you know.” Which, she
thought as she made it, was a
clightly absurd remark. Who
would know that betler taan the
matron of the Home?
“You mean you foid Susie?”
“Why not? Susie’s nearly: 1&.
ond we can scarcely expect her
still to believe that babies are
fourd under gooseberry bushes.
T have to go now. I have an ap
pointment—which doesn’'t mean
a taing, of course, hnt 1 like to
make a gesture of keeping it
anvwayv.'
l She waved gaily as she less.
(To Be Continued
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