Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1950-04-29
The Loyalty Terror

IL is no longer possible for intelligent people to be-
heve that the various loyalty boards committees and
Seappomted virgilanteS, not DESTROYING the RII
OF Rights and the substance of human dionitv IN +h
united States The record speaks for itself ACCORDING
TO the National Alliance of Postal Employees 80 ner
cent of all persons of dsoyalty in the postal SER
vice, are Negroes and Jews.
. We must weigh the effort of the Washington Court
OF Appeals to discount this fact by claiming that it was
Sneer coincidence that 20 of &c persons who appealed
dlsloyay convictions to it, were Negroes and Jews In
II decision, handed down Monday the court saw no
evidence OF racial discrimination despite the fact that
70 OF the 26 cases before it Negroes or Jewsve
Gods! 80 -
For whatever purpose the Loyalty oaths and boards
were set is obvious that they are accomplishing the
rum OF all democratic procedure What is more it is clear
from the vicious attacks launched in the Senate upon
owen baltimore atomic scientists Dean Acheson and bv
clear implication, the Presdent-hat no one is to be
spared save the most irresponsible priests Of white
supremacy and corporate wealth.
There is greater evil however in the suspension Of
due process of law which lies at the foundation of the
loyalty procedures. The lone dissenter on the Washing
ton Court of Appeals pointed out that the accused had
been denied the right to face their accusers as well as
the right to know the nature and origin of the charges
against them.
Where due process of law is suspended, democracy
is both Stranged and denied the chance of revvng
itself Indeed this appears to be the very thing going
in mdss Liberals led to accept the loyalty
procedures on the grounds that directed only
against communists Enlightened conservatives accepted
the loyalty procedures the grounds that at worse only
known liberals would be caught in the nets.
Now it develops that the divine and conquer techn-
que is happening here Few communists have been found
but many liberals, intelligent conservatives and
lists have been ruined by the the other of
the loyalty terrOrists.
In this the Nation is to be denied the leader
ship of its most enlightened and highly trained citizens
Even scientists who needed by the apostles of war;
not exempt from the persecution of those they seek
to serve.
Suspicion has almost replaced acts grounds for
prosecution for treason Gossip and the headline
have replaced the open trial by jury of the accuseds
peers The FBI is replacing the Writ of Habeas Corpus
combining the functions of judge, prosecutor and ator
ney for the defense
Study carefully the pattern of the loyalty mess and
you find that only Talmadge a Rankin or known
leader of lynch mob hope to be like Caesars wife,
completely above suspicion Only the likes of Gerald L.
K. Smith live in the secure knowledge that home
freedom and reputation not being undermined by
the whispers of dsloyaty.
She is disloyal also-that symbol which holds high
her wavering torch upon the Atlantc-the Statue of
Liberty She would welcome the foreign born, and she
herself is alien from France.