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feared 1t would cause many other
foreign service officers to:
/. Pull their punches in reports
TO the department and be wary of
recommending any policy changes
to their superiors for fear such
reports might be held against
them later.
2. Tighten up in supplying
background information" to
newspapermen to the extent of
increasing the difficulty of re-
porters in obtaining any informa-
ton about foreign policy problems
except that contained in official
handouts"
Senator Mccarthy, Republican,
of Wisconsin. who has made Mr..
Service one of the principal tar
gets of his pro-Communist-in-
Government charges, asserted in
Los Angeles last night that the
fired diplomat "is only one of
many rotten apples in the barrel. !"
He renewed his demand for re-
moval of Secretary of State Ache
son, saying Mr.. Acheson had all
the evidence on Service for many
years and refused to act"
Acted Under Executive Order.
The firing of Mr.. Service came
under an executive order issued by
President Truman last April which
requires dismissal of any Govern
ment employe about whose loyalty
there is a reasonable doubt. y
This order strengthened previous
regulations which permitted firing
only when reasonable grounds"
were found for believing an en-
ploye diSloyal.
The State Departments Loyalty
Security Board reported it recon-
sidered the Service case under the
tougher regulations last July 81
and determined that there was
mo reasonable doubt" about his
loyalty. In September, the case
was referred for post audit" to
the Loyalty Review Board, which
held its own hearing last month.
Hiram Bingham, chairman of
the Loyalty Review Board, notified
the State Department yesterday
that it had found there is a rea-
sonable doubt" as to the loyalty
of Mr.. Service, based on the in
territorial and unauthorized dis
closure of documents and informa-
ton of confidential and
non-public character"
The Review Board and Depart
ment Board agreed that Mr.. Serv-
ices activities in China during the
war when he visited Chinese Com
munist headquarters as part of an
Army observer group, raised no
reasonable doubts about his 10y
atty.
His reports during that period
were described by the Department
Board as extraordinarily accurate
as political forecasts of what was
to come The board noted that
'as early as January, 1943, he re-
ported that civil war in China
would bring about a Communist
government which would not be
democratic in the American sense,
and which would be more inclined
to friendship with Russia than
with the United States"
1t added:
THE board finds nowhere in
his reports any sympathy for Rus
sian or for world communist, but
only clearly expressed fear that
the policy of the Chinese Nation
alist government, and of the
United States Government as a
of Chang Kai-shek
alone. was headed for a major
disaster that would throw all of
China into the hands of the Soviet
Union"
Split on Amerasia Case.
Where the department and re-
view boards split was in their
of Mr.. Services con-
facts with Jaffe in connection with
the famous "Amerasia" case of
1945.
On March 10. 1945-a month
before Mr.. Services return from
China-OSS agents searched the
Amerasia Offices in New York and
found a large number of Govern
ment documents. The FBI then
was asked to make a full investi-
cation and kept Jaffe and others
under surveillance.
Mr.. Service returned to Wash
ington on April II and on April
10 was introduced to Jaffe by
Navy 1t. Andrew Roth, the State
Department board said its evi-
dence showed. 1t added that then
Mr.. Service assumed to treat
Jaffe as a reputable writer and
to give him the same sort of back
ground information that he had
been accustomed to give to news
papermen in China"
Mr.. Service. the board said, ad-
lending Jaffe '8 or 10"
of his reports about conditions in
China=conies from his nersnnal