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...espionage in 1945 for furnishing State Department documents to the editor of the pinko Amerasia magazine, Service was cleared by a grand jury, and then investigated and cleared six times in six years by State Department loyalty boards. In 1951 he was summarily dismissed by Secretary of State Dean Acheson after the Civil Service Commission's Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable doubt" as to his loyalty. _ Last June the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on a legal point and not on loyalty, held that the Secretary of State had exceeded his authority in dismissing Service; the U.S. District Court...
...retreat-which would have been called betrayal short months ago-the Leadership Conference had plenty of company. Word spread that Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock...
...December 1951 the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Review Board recommended that Service should be fired. "To say that his course of conduct does not raise a reasonable doubt as to Service's own loyalty would, we are forced to think, stretch the mantle of charity much too far." Acheson sacked Service, whereupon Service appealed all the way to the Supreme Court...
...Last week, by a vote of 8-0 (with Justice Clark not taking part*), the Supreme Court ruled in effect that the State Department's internal regulations took precedence over the congressional rider and thus over the national law. Specifically the court found that Secretary of State Dean Acheson had improperly dismissed Diplomat John Stewart Service, 47, even though Acheson had specifically taken his legal grounds from the "absolute discretion" granted in the congressional rider...
...Service case had been around Washington a long time before Acheson got to it. One spring day in 1945, Service, one of the band of Foreign Service "China hands" who urged the U.S. during World War II to dump the Chinese Nationalists and plump for Communist Mao Tse-tung, was discovered by the FBI in the hotel room of Philip Jaffe. editor of the pro-Chinese Communist magazine Amerasia. The FBI had earlier raided Amerasia's offices, found there about 40 of Service's State Department documents, which he had stamped "Secret" or "Confidential." Service was arrested along...