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After waiting much too long, the Army last week laid out chapter and verse in the case of Major Irving Peress. The chronology clearly showed that 1) the Army "discovered" Peress and started him on the way out long before Joe McCarthy roared into the picture. 2) the seemingly strange aspects of the case followed a familiar, tangled pattern of Army red tape...
...Peress, a New York City dentist, was commissioned as an Army Reserve captain under the doctors' draft...
...Following the usual routine, Peress filled in his personal-history and loyalty forms. On these forms the inductee may invoke the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution in connection with the loyalty certificate and questions about subversive affiliations. Instead of simply signing the certificate and answering the questions, Peress wrote: "Federal constitutional privilege." As his papers wandered through channels, no one reacted to that notation...
...Peress reported to Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for active duty and orientation...
...Pending assignment to the Far East, Peress was ordered to Fort Lewis, Wash. His papers, the telltale loyalty and personal-history answers still unnoticed, followed him across the country. At Fort Lewis, he applied for a "compassionate reassignment" to be near his wife and child, who were under psychiatric care...