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Nixon
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NOiltitlucu cIUM cISt RAGE
official, who denied he passed any
confidential papers to Mr.. Cham
bers. has been convicted of per-
jury and sentenced to five years
imprisonment. He has appealed
In stating that Hiss would have
been cleared under the present
loyalty check system, Mr.. Nixon
explained:
1.-THE loyalty checks are based
primarily on open Affiliations with
Communist front organizations
Underground Communists and
espionage agents have no open
Affiliations, and 1t is therefore al
most impossible to apprehend
them through a routine loyalty
investigation under the President
order"
Would Change Approach.
He recommended serious con-
sideration" of a sharp change ir
the approach to the loyalty prob
lem which would weed out the
indiscreet" as well as those OF
doubtful loyalty among Govern
ment workers and prospective en-
ployes.
The famous pumpkin papers,
secreted by Mr.. Chambers on his
Maryland farm, were obtained by
Mr.. Nixon and Robert STRIPPING
then chief investigator for the
House committee, during the Hiss
investigation. In his address yes
terday, Mr.. Nixon noted that Mr.
Chambers had testified during the
second Hiss trial that Mr.. White
was a source Of information for
Soviet espionage ring.
Has Eight Pages of Documents.
Because of this, Mr.. Nixon said
he was revealing the contents OF
eight pages of documents in the
handwriting Of Mr.. White" which
formed part of the pumpkin
hoard.
Mr.. Nixon read a, report of q
Government handwriting expert
which stated the memoranda were
written by Mr.. White. The former
Treasury official died In 194s
shortly after he had denied to the
House committee that he ever had
given Mr.. Chambers any conf
Dental information.
The purported White memo
randa made public by Mr.. Nixon
dealt principally with United
States policy toward Japan.
Shortly before the first trial of
Mr.. Hiss" MIR. Nixon related, 81
learned that a secret memoran-
dunn. dated November Is, 1945,
dealing with Soviet espionage in
the United States and prepared
by an intelligence agency of this
Government, was circulated
among several key Government
departments and was made avail
able to the President"
Gouzenko Quoted.
He said the memorandum told
OF information obtained from Igor
Gouzenko, former code clerk in
the Office Of the Soviet military
attache in Ottawa, Canada. Read
ing what he said was an excerpt
from the secret paper, Mr.. Nixon
quoted MIR. Gouzenko, tipof man
in the Canadian atomic espionage
case, as declaring in May of 1916
that one of Mr.. Stettinius' aides
was q Soviet agent.
Mr.. Nixon then commented
Mr.. Hiss was Mr.. Stettinius' as
sistant at the Yalta Conference In
February Of 1945."
Despite this indication of un-
dercover doings at a high level
in the State Department, Mr.
Nixon complained. there was nc
apparent investigation. And wher
the House committee tried to gel
to the bottom of Mr.. Chambers
charges against Hiss, MIR. Nixon
continued, 1.-THE President threw
the great power and prestige oil
his Office against the investiga-
ton by the committee and fol
Mr.. Hiss by declaring that the
hearings of the committee were
simply q red herring"