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Show Disloyal Americans Secretary of State James F. Byrnes has reported that forty State Department employees have been discharged for "close connections or involvements with foreign governments." While the Secretary's statement state-ment refutes the sly suggestion made in some quarters that hundreds, if not thousands, of employes have been eliminated by the State Department because of Communistic leanings or ac, tivities for other governments, it reveals that forty workers of the Department were, to some extent, disloyal to the interests of the United States. It should be borne in mind that several thousand employes were transferred to the State Department Depart-ment from various war agencies and that the vast majiority of the employes in the State Department De-partment are thoroughly "loyal American citizens." |