Evening star., 1952-02-10
Service Pleads Anew
For Truman 10 Void
Loyalty Case Firing
By Jones {. Roper

By jones {. Roper
John s. Service, fired from the
State Department on loyalty
charges. has appealed anew to
President Truman to reverse the
decision, it was learned last night
Mr.. Service, through his at
torney. told the White House that
speeches by Senator Mccarthy
Republican, Of Wisconsin. showed
that loyalty investigators pre-
judged his case and acted partly
on evidence which Mr.. Service was
not given a chance to answer.
The new appeal to Mr.. Truman
was disclosed amid these other
developments:
/. G. Rowland Shaw, who was
Assistant Secretary of State
under Secretary Cordell Hull.
staunchly defended Mr.. Service
and warned that "hysteria and
the fear upon which it is based
have become characteristics OF
American 1ife."
2. John C. Reid, Washington
tax attorney, started collection
to finance a court fight to get back
Mr.. Services job If President Tru-
man decides not to intervene.
Reasonable Doubt" Found.
Mr.. Service, a career diplomat,
was fred December IA after Presi-
dent Truman's Loyalty Review
Board found reasonable doubt
about his loyalty. AS far as was
known publicly, the case was
based entirely on Mr.. Services
handing over certain State De-
partment documents in 1945 to
AmeraSia magazine, since recog-
nized as Communist mouthpiece:
ON January Is, however, Sena-
tor Mccarthy read to the Senate
what he said were excerpts from
secret minutes Of the Loyalty Re-
view Board which Senator Nc
Carthy said linked Mr.. Service
with q paid agent of the Soviet
government.
Mr.. Service promptly wrote
Hiram Bingham. chairman OF the
Loyalty Review Board, asking for
permission to see the minutes. as
they mentioned a charge that had
not been brought up before.
Charles Edward Rhetts. as at
torney for Mr.. Service, also IS
using the Mccarthy speech as the
basis for his new appeal to Presi-
dent Truman. Mr.. Rhetts last
month asked President Truman to
appoint an impartial" board to
hear Mr.. Services case, but has
not received a reply.
Further Evidence Claimed.
In his latest message to Presi-
dent Truman, Mr.. RhettS said
Senator McCarthy's statements
"add further clear evidence that
Service did not receive from the
Loyalty Review Board that kind
of fair hearing by judges free from
personal bias which is basic to
all civilized conceptions Of due
process of law"
Mr.. Rhetts wrote the President
that the alleged minutes also con-
tain information Enthusiastically
rejecting a pre-consideration and
a ore-judgment Of Services case.
Permit me to express my con-
f1dence that you will not hesitate
to protect the rights Of one most
tunjustly degraded by government
tai defamation" Mr.. Rhetts wrote.
This latest appeal to Mr.. Tru-I
man, written on Monday. said the
evidence indicated the Loyalty Re-
view Board decided against Mr..
Service just to reach "a statisti-
cal quota of dismissals."
Mr.. Rhetts told a reporter that
If President Truman failed to help
Mr.. Service, he would take the case
to Federal Court.
Accepts No Fees.
Mr.. Rhetts is accepting no fees.
The fund being collected by Mr..
Reid would be used to finance the
filing of briefs and other legal
maneuverS. ...-.
Mr.. Shaw, as a one time Assis-
tant Secretary of State for Ad-
ministration, expressed alarm that
the Service case would undermine
the Foreign Service.
He expressed his views in a let
ter to the Foreign Service Journal.
a semioficial magazine specializ-
ing in Foreign Service affairs.
''Unhappily," he added, I'VE live
at q time when hysteria and the
fear upon which it is based have
become characteristics OF Amer1-
can life. The professional informer
has become a hero and character
assassination substitute for pa
triotism of the traditional kind.
THAT is the emotional climate
In which the case Of John 8.
Service has arisen and that is why
the case is Of far greater sig
nificance than the injustice and
the misfortune which have be-
fallen an able and conscientious
Foreign Service. officer in the
midst of a distinguished career. {"
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