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Actually, a loyalty certificate, even for officer candidates, is largely waste motion. All personnel in the armed services swear to uphold the Constitution against all enemies "foreign and domestic." Furthermore they take this oath without "mental reservation," and unlike the certificate's rather muddy legal status, the formal oath is quite binding...
...memberships that might embarrass the military in the future, the ROTC unit need only post a list of tainted organizations with a request that any student who has belonged to one fill out a form stating the circumstances under which he joined. It would eliminate the feeling attending loyalty oaths, that the organization requiring the oath assumes a suspicious attitude, and it would surely show more trust in future officers than does the present system...
...would appear that since the new questionnaire was aimed at Communists in state employ they could be nailed legally under this oath and other state anti-subversive laws...
...constitutionality, the recent Supreme Court decision in the Oklahoma Loyalty Oath case declares unconstitutional any action making membership in a lawful organization in and of itself grounds for disqualification for state employ...
...rapid subsequent action, Temple officials, suspended Dunham, called him before their loyalty committee, and finally dismissed him from the faculty, on a Pennsylvania law providing for a loyalty oath...