Evening star., 1952-12-05
eAmericans
FiredFromU.N.,
Others Warned
1S Dropped in 1852
For Baking Quiz
On Link With Reds
BY the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS. N. Y, Dec.
5.-U. N. sources said Secretary
General Trygve Lie fired nine
American employees today for re-
fusing to answer McCarran COM
mittee questions about Communist
affiliations and subversive connec-
tions. This brings to 18 the num-
ber dismissed in 1852 for this
cause,
Mr.. Lie, in a formal statement,
warned his staff of 5000 they face
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the same fate if they act SINH
larly
The new notices of dismissal
were contained in letters, the U.
N. source said, which are expected
to be made public later today
The terms and mechanics of the
flrings are also expected to be
announced.
Follows Panels Advice.
Mr.. Lie, in his statement to the
secretariat. said he was following
the advice of a distinguished
three-man panel of international
jurists who recommended this
course.
He announced that within few
days he would set up an advisory
panel to help him in dealing with
specific cases.
The nine slated to be fired have
been on special leave with pay
but banned from entering the
U. N. secretariat-sinCe they re-
fused to answer questions by the
United States Senate Internal Sc
curity Subcommittee headed by
Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada, on constitutional grounds
that their answers might incrimi-
nate them.
Ultimatum Served Monday.
Mr.. Lie was said to have served
an ultimatum to the nine last
Monday to answer these questions
to him by noon yesterday or face
firing. Their answers all were re-
ported unsatisfactory.
Contents of the replies were not
made public.
OF the nine previously fired, six
have been let out since the Nc
Carran committee started it's
probe of U. N. employees in Oc-
tober. The six had temporary
contracts which were not renewed.
Three others had been fired
earlier for refusing to answer the
queries of a previous investigating
committee.
1t was not known here how
many American employees in the
secretariat have been called up be-
fore the Federal grand jury which
just concluded its investigation of
the U. N. with a charge that it had
found widespread infiltration" by
American Reds into the world or
ganiZation.
Had Further Evidence.
A u. N. spokesman quoted Mr..
Lie as saying, when he announced
the previous firings, that he acted
not only because of their refusals
to testify but because of further
evidence he had received on them
from American security agencies
The whole explosive problem is
expected to touch off one of the
bitterest controversies in U. N.
history when it comes up in the
Assembly's Financial and Budg-
etary Committee, probably next
week.
The nine who have been dis
missed so far this year are:
Stanley Craze of the Technical
Assistance Administration, $4,000
a-year salary; Alfred j. Van Tas-
sci, chief of the special projects
section of the Technical Assistance
administration, $4,000; Herman
Zap. fellowship officer, Technical
Assistance Administration, at
$6,625, and his wife Marjorie,
who made $4,000 in the Depart
ment of Economic Affairs; Her.
man Schimmel, $8,500-a-year Of
ficer, Department of Economic
Affairs; Leo M. Drozdoff. publish
ing division, $4,000; Helen Kagan-
pozner, Russian translator, $4,000;
Eugene Wallach, verbatim report
er, and Irving Kaplan, officer,
both of the Department of Eco
nomic Affairs. The salaries of the
last two named were not avail
able.
First Report on Three.
This report was the first that
Herman Zap. Drozdoff and Mrs.
Kagenozner had been fired, al
though officials said the action
was taken some time ago.
The nine fired today were listed
as:
Frank C. Bancroft, editor, Doc
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