Evening star., 1954-10-17
LodgeCharges
UNESC0 Has
Loyalty Risks
Dubious Employees
Kept on PoyroII,
U. N. Delegate Says
b. the Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Oct.
16.-Henry Cabot Lodge jr.,
chief United States delegate to
the United Nations, charged to-
day that eight American en-
ployes of doubtful loyalty were
being kept on the UNESCO pay
roll by DR. Luther Evans, Amer
lean head of the organization.
Mr.. Lodge strongly criticized
DR.. Evans, former Librarian of
Congress, for an action which
he said illustrates efforts to in
sure high integrity among Amer
ican staff members of interna-
tional organizations.
DR.. Evans has headed the
U. N. Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, a spe-
cialized agency of the U. N. with
headquarters in Paris, since July
4. 1858. A native of Texas, he
had since 1949 been a member
of the executive board of
UNESCO and was chosen as a
compromise candidate for the
top post to succeed Mexico's
Jaime TorreS-Bodet.
Set Up Loyalty Quiz.
Mr.. Lodge. who set up new
loyalty quizzes for Americans
employed in the United Nations
shortly after he became the per-
manent United States delegate
in 1858. noted in statement
issued through the United States
mission here that UNESCO was
outside his Jurisdiction.
But Mr. Lodge charged eight
United States citizens employed
by the organization have had
bad loyalty reports from the
U. S. International Organiza-
tions Employees Loyalty Board.
He did not identify them but
described them thus:
Concerning these eight per-
sons the board found reasonable
doubt as to their loyalty to the
United States. Only one of these
eight persons condescenced to
accept the boards invitation
merely to meet with it when it
was in Paris last summer. The
seven others were in such con-
tempt of the whole procedure
that they did not bother to ap-
pear at the boards meeting"
Attacks Policy.
Mr.. Lodge added:
"Dr. Evans policy also clearly
implies belief on his part that
United States citizens, by virtue
of their employment by UNESCO,
somehow obtain a status different
from that of other United States
citizens who are employees of
other international organiza-
tons"
DR.. Evans was in Milwaukee.
attending sessions of the United
States National Commission on
UNESCO. a body of educators,
scientists, business and profess
sional men and women ap-
pointed by the Government to
map American policy in UNESCO.
A spokesman here said the Lodge
statement. rejecting official dis
satisfaction with DR.. Evans posi-
ton, was issued to it could be
timed with the Milwaukee meet
ing where the question was ex-
pected to come up.
An informant here said that
the same extraordinary meeting
of the UNESCO conference in
Paris in 1853 which elected DR..
Evans director general also
voted an interim regulation re-
quiring American employees to
take loyalty quizzes like the ones
Mr.. Lodge instituted in the U. N.
The United States spokesman,
amplifying Mr.. Lodges statement
said it was understood that DIR,
Evans would not renew contracts
of three Of the eight persons
which expire at the end of this
year, and would terminate a
fourth contract next February.
The spokesman identified only
one of the eight. David Left
, who defied several court orders
, to return to the United States
to testify on loyalty questions
raised about him.