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employees of the u. N. Stemmed
from a decision Mr.. Byrnes made
in 1896" Subcommittee Chairman
Chelf, Democrat of Kentucky, told
reporters he will urge the new
subcommittee to give Gov. Byrnes
an opportunity to reply.
2. The criticism which Mr.
Murray and Mr.. Lane. as well as
Deputy Attorney General Ross
Malone. directed at Roy M. Cohn,
Justice Department special as
sistant who worked with the previ-
GUS grand jury in New York. The
Justice Department officials i'm
piled yesterday that Mr.. Cohn
seemed unusually eager to have
the jury file what they regarded
as a premature" report last Octo-
ber. Mr.. Cohn is slated to leave
the department to take a top staff
job with the Senate permanent in
vestigations subcommittee to be
headed by Senator Mccarthy, Re-
publican, Of Wisconsin.
3. The answer to a question
about Alger Hiss, which Secretary
Acheson said he was unable to
answer.
Mr.. Keating brought up the
name of the former State Depart
ment official now serving a prison
term for perjury. Hiss swore to
a Federal grand jury that he
never gave Government secret
documents to Whitaker Cham
bers, former Soviet agent.
The subcommittee member
wanted to know whether Mr..
as Undersecretary OF
State in 1916, attended a meeting
at which Hiss was present The
purpose of the meeting. Mr.. Keat-
ing said, was to formulate a
"hands-off" policy for the United
States in connection with U. N
employment of personnel. Mr.
Acheson said he did not recall
such a meeting.
To Pursue Point.
Mr.. Keating informed reporters
later that he intended to asE the
subcommittee, when revived by the
new Congress, to look deeper into
the matter because Hiss in 1916
was the State Departments rep
resentative in handling problems
Of U. N. employment of United
States citizens.
Gov. Byrnes probably would be
asked about Hiss role if the for
mer Secretary of State testifies.
pointed out.
4. A move to broaden the sub
committee investigation in view of
testimony yesterday by Assistant
of State John D. Kicker
son. in charge of United Nations
affairs, that the so-called evalua-
tion arrangement between the
State Department and the U. N.
applied only to the U. N. secre-
tariat.
Subcommittee members said
they want to know why the ar
unsuccessful as they
believe it to have been, did not
apply also to hundreds of other
holding jobs in the
various specialized agencies Of
u. N.
Sees No Spying Evidence.
Mr.. Hickerson declared that. de-
spite the limitations and restric-
tions of the present system, there
was no evidence of spying by
United States employees of the
U. N.
5. A renewed attack on the
Presidents executive order foI
stricter loyalty Investigations OF
Americans employed by or seek
ing employment with the U. N.
This order was denounced yes
terday by Representative Killings,
Republican, of California, as q
sham and phony." He asserted
that the red tape involved would
cause years of delay in ridding
the U. N. of subversives. Secretary
Acheson suggested that Mr.. Hill
ings read the jurists' report on
which the executive order was
based.
Despite the tensions, occasional
outburstS and numerous signs OF
confusion over the State Depart
ment's method of handling per-
sonnel information requests from
the U, ~, the final session ended
on relatively happy notes for the
new year.
Chairman Chelf, seconded by
Mr.. Heating. paid high tribute to
Mr.. Malone and, through him, to
Attorney General McGranery for