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Communists
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ness of the Governments loyalty
program.
AS he described it last night tt
the Senate, Senator Ferguson saw
in this a part of a Government
secrecy" pattern which had been
developing for some years.
In the current case it revolveo
around the refusal of Government
officials, with the final support Of
President Truman, to reveal any
records regarding LOYALTY checks in
volvirg William w. Remington, key
Commerce Department license eX-
port officer, who had been named
as one of the sources of wartime
secret" information obtained fol
Soviet Russia by the former avoWeo
courier" for Russian spy ring
Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley.
Congress, no less than the Presi.
dent, Senator Ferguson told the
Senate, is charged with the security
Of the Government. z
Congress, like the President. III
went on, must meet the rev
ll,essiaads ~ef OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES sa
e..p.us at housel1A .sss e
sButsf when hearies 10 do So
the President can deny to Congress
the information it needs to legi2.
'ate INTEL" entity Senator. cTgu'
zen said. "tTi.en tie Fre1idcnt l1a;
gene beyond the r-ercoatives Of hi.
oIce and thr-eett-ttr1rss' the very
| foundations of representative gov
eminent"
Eopes for Fair Solution.
Concluding his speech to thu
Senate. Senator Ferguson voicee
hope that some solution fair to bott
the President and the Congress
would be found. He added:
Unless we find way to rein
vigorate Congress power to secure
all the information it needs te
legis,ste properly and intelligently
unless we keep the President within
tcUndS in his attempts TO put an
iron CIV; sin teyveen Congress and
TIE prb.;c bucincss, consti-
tut;enfl and rc-,--cacntst govern
ment will be t.7nefc:nlcd bc-oTe our
very eye~ into centralized, executive
GjctatorTili'r"
In the Remington investigation,
Senator Ferguson said, the investi-
eating Senate group had sought
pertinent facts from the Navy De-
partment, which he said had re-
quested Mr.. Remington to relin-
quish his Navy Reserve Commission;
from the Commerce Department,
where the youthful economist was
placed in an important position
the export of critical ma
terials to foreign countries, and from
the Justice Department, which had
for a long time had been investi-
eating reports of Mr.. Remington
subversive activities.
Each Refused to Comply.
Each of these departments, Sen
ator Ferguson said. had refused to
comply with committee REQUESTS for
on the ground that. 1t
would violate a directive from the
President.
Senator Ferguson said thee in
group was not asking
for confidential sources Of informa-
ton" nor for investigative tech
nique, but that it was only con-
cerned with the question OF "how
and when" checks made upon Mr..
under the loyalty pro-
gram, had been subject to action
by various departments.
The Michigan Senator protested
that not only had the departmental
officials refused to supply the in
formation but that they had been
supported by the press conference
statement of President Truman.
Last Appeal Made To Clark.
While Senator Ferguson was as
sailing the Presidents secrecy as
to suspected communists, his Elk
penditures Subcommittee made q