Evening star., 1947-11-06
Loyalty Review Board
Likely 10 Get 1OCases
From Marshall First
By Joseph Young

The security risks" firings o1
10 State Department employees
probably will be among the first
cases to be handled by the new
Federal Loyalty Review Board
Secretary of State Marshall an
nounced at a press conference late
yesterday that the department will
make available to the review board
its records on employees dismissed
as bad security risks"
THE department will make avail
able to the Civil Service Commission
or to the review board its files with
respect to any employe appealing to
the commission or to the board,
Gen. Marshall said. ANY informa-
ton in that file fully under the con-
troll of the department may be made
available to the employe as specific
charges. Security clearance of any
other material in the file will be the
responsibility of the commission OF
the board
1t was not made clear just when
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the loyalty board, the membership
of which is expected to be an
nounced within the next few days
Secrets Called Other Agencies.
Secretary Marshall said some Of
the papers in the cases were the
secrets of other agencies which the
State Department at present hasn't
the right to make public.
There has been considerable
criticism recently of the failure tc
acquaint the dismissed employees
with the charges against them, ano
failure to receive a full hearing.
Counsel for the employees has
asked the department to give the
employees full hearings or permit the
workers to resign.
Meanwhile, the Veterans Admin
istration announced that its loyalty
investigation has resulted in two
designations during the past month
| Although no f1rings were involved
there were "a couple of quick resig-
nations in the central Office here
VA said. 7@. -'~.s,o' ~
In a Chicago radio speech last
night, Chairman Rees of the House
Civil Service Committee renewed
his charge that the present loyalty
program is ineffective.
To support his charges, Mr.. Rees
cited the case of a woman employe
who, he said. was married to q
known Communist and had had
her loyalty questioned by. II COM
petent witnesses" during an FBl
investigation.
The woman was cleared and re-
ceived official apologies because
she had been investigated, Mr. Rees
asserted.
"She was shown to have had men,
bership in at least three active Com
munist-fro organizations, and a
police department has her name on
a list of persons signing Communist
Party petitions, the Kansan de-
clared
Official Goes to Germany.
Despite the fact that the FBl
turned the material over to the de-
partment in which she was en-
ployed, the personnel director there
cleared the employe by stating to an
Interdepartmental Loyalty Board
that the only possible conclusion
from the investigation is that the
employe has clear record and that
no suspicion attaches to her" he
continued.
subsequently, the personnel di-
rector was detailed to the job of tor
personnel adviser to Gen. Lucious D
Clay, who is presently charged with
the responsibility of conducting civil
affairs in the American zone in &C.
cupied Germany" Mr.. Rees declared
Il wonder to what extent Gen. Clay's
personnel adviser is approving Com
munist sympathizers in the Ameri-
can zone of occupation
City families in the Pacific and
North Atlantic regions of the United
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