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in reverse. from the poor to the
rich"
Mr.. Truman spoke to a Ma
tion-wide CHS radio audience
as well as to the more than
1000 persons at the ADA ban
quet in the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel. He was interrupted 20
times by enthusiastic applause.
Adds to Address.
He added numerous off-the-
cuff remarks to. his prepared
speech. and the talk ran 10 min
utes past the scheduled Is
minute broadcast period.
On the Communists-in-Gov-
eminent issue, Mr.. Truman de-
clared:
In the campaign of 1852. the
Republican orators did their
best to make the people believe
that the Government was honey
combed with Communists. They
knew this was not true, of
course. At least, most of them
did. Some of them knew so lit
tie about the facts of life in
the United States. Government
that they might have believed
anything.
But by now even the political
newcomers in the Republican
ranks are bound to know better.
They know, and know full we'll.
that the Communists they found
in Government were few and
far between !. :"
Mr.. Truman said his 1947
loyalty program did a thorough
job Of cleaning out Reds in Gov
eminent. Then he added:
They may have missed a
few. We all know how the
Communists practice tactics of
secret inf1ltration. and some may
have slipped by without being
caught. But you can be abso-
lutely sure of this: When the
Republicans took over the Gov
eminent on January 20. 1858.
if there were any Communists
in the Government service, they
were very, very few indeed.
Charges CRUSADER Hoax"
Now what did these self
styled Republican crusaders do
when they took over the Gov
eminent and found that the
facts were not what they had
represented them to be? Did
they own up like men that their
campaign oratory was just cam
paign oratory? Wendell Willkie
once had the grace to do that,
but not this bunch that was
trained in the school of Tom
Dewey. Instead, they undertook
to perpetrate one Of the biggest
hoaxes ever attempted in Ameri-
can history.
"They set out to create the
impression that they actually
were finding hundreds of Com
munists in the Government.
This is the Republican admin
istration ! am talking about
not irresponsible members Of
Congress.
They didn't say fatty that
they had found hundreds Of
Communists. Oh, no. they knew
the absolutely falsity Of that
could be proved beyond a doubt.
But they announced from the
White House. with much fanfare.
that they were doing q wonder
full job-Simply magnificent-of
cleaning the Communists out of
the Government. and that. as a
matter of fact. already they
had gotten rid Of 1,456 security
risks The number had grown
to 1900 by the time Of the
state-of the Union message.
Facts Coming Out"
"But they were still talking
about q vague category they
called security risks in an effort
to make the American people be-
lieve they had found hundreds
Of Communists. It seems to me
that the presidential press con-
ference and the state-of-the-
Union message ought not to be
used for such deceptive practices
as this.
who is included in the 2,200?
The administration refuses to
say. How was the number ar
rived at? The administration re-
fuses to say. But some Of the
facts are beginning to come out,
just the same.
"Few'of them do any credit to
the great crusade"
The administration has con-
coded that many dismissed work.
ers were classed as security risks
becauGe Of personal habits and
not because Of disloyalty. Some
we're not fired, but resigned with
out ever knowing they were
classified as risks"
Gen. Eisenhower has said he is
! planning to clarity the matter.
| where possible, but has expressed
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