Evening star., 1954-11-06

| NEW MATURITY LEADER AK
son of Texas, who will take
majority leader in the DemO'
in January, waves his hat on b
legal assistant, Federal Com
munications Commission: Floyd
Springer, jr., assistant to the
director, Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration, and Theodore G.
Waale. director of the Office of
Procurement and Technical As
sistance, Small Business Admin
iStration.
Drawn From Panel.
The chairman was a special
selection. The four members
were drawn from a regular panel
which the Civil Service Com
mission uses to form boards for
hearing individual cases. A man
| facing security charges is sup
posed to be tried" by a board
composed of Government en-
ployes of rank similar to his own.
Ordinarily State Department
Security Chief r. w. Scott
Mcleod would pick the investi-
eating board. but this time Sec
retary Dulles and then Under
secretary of State Walter Bedell
Smith picked the board.
Mr.. Davies first was linked
with security problems in 1945,
when Gen. Patrick j. Hurley re-
signed as Ambassador to Nation
alist China, and accused Mr..
Davies of being disloyal to him.
Mr.. Davies and others accused
by Gen. Hurley had been on the
Embassy staff under Gen. Hurley.
Mr.. Davies, however, weathered
Investigations by Congress and
State Department authorities.
He got into trouble again in
1851 after 1t. Gen. A. c. Wede-
meyer, one-time chief of staff to
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek,
testified that Mr.. Davies men,
oranda on China "were very
critical of the Nationalist gov
ernment and they were rather
praising of the Communist re-
gime."
BY then, Mr.. Davies was on
the State Departments Policy
Planning Staff. The State De-
partment Loyalty Security Board
had Mr.. Davies suspended, ef-
fective June q, 1851.
On July 80, 1851, the State
Department announced: "He has
been reinstated without preju-
dice and with the full confidence
of the department !. Mr.. Davies
is one of the departments
outstanding foreign affairs off,
GERS"
After his reinstatement, Mr..
Davies was assigned to the Office
of the High Commissioner for
Germany, where he advised
Commissioner John j. McCloy
on political affairs.
Then the Senate Internal Sc
curity subcommittee got after
Mr.. Davies about a proposal he
made to the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. He testified twice,
strongly denying any suggestion
that he ever proposed anything
subversive to CIA.
Transferred to Peru.
Nevertheless, the State Depart
ment transferred Mr.. Davies
from the politically sensitive spot
in Germany-a hot point in the
Western contest with commu-
nism--and sent him to Lima,
Peru.
From Lima, Mr.. Davies was
summoned home to answer Sem
ator McCarthy's revival of the
question of his reliability. This
was just one more strange twist
in the Davies foreign service Ca
reer that started in January,
| 1882.
Mr.. Davies was born in China
in 1908. the son of Baptist mis-
Sionaries. and sought to make
Oriental affairs his life,s work.
After his first brief Foreign Serv-
ice assignment in Canada, Mr..
Davies was shifted to China
where he held a series of posts.
In 1945. he was assigned to
political reporting from the
United States Embassy in Mos.
cow Two years later. he was
placed on the policy planning
staff in Washington.
Mr.. Davies is married to Pa
tricia Grady. daughter of Henry
F. Grady, one-time Ambassador
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