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...Clermont-Ferrand ran a frantic youth. "Protect me! My organization is out to get me!" he shrieked when he reached a police station. He said he had been summoned to a nearby villa, "Chez Lisette," where the other members of the "organization" had condemned him to death for treason...
Last week the twelve jurors found arrogant Douglas Chandler guilty of treason. The minimum sentence is five years in prison and a $10,000 fine; the maximum penalty, death. Solemn and mute, his two daughters, Laurette, 21, and Patricia, 18, watched him led away to wait for the court to fix his punishment...
...standards to be applied for disloyalty tests include such obvious items as sabotage, espionage, treason, or advocacy of revolution. The gimmick is in the specification designed to catch the Communists: "Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization . . . designated by the Attorney General as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive...
...dangerous" Dies Committee "subversive" lists in determining disloyalty or sympathetic association with groups called subversive by the Attorney General. A person discharged from the government service for disloyalty, he stated, would find himself condemned in the job market and as stigmatized as one convicted of treason...
Touched off by the Canadian Red spy eases, a mounting suspicion of anything left of center has finally shifted into hysterical overdrive with the recent presidential proclamation of a loyalty test for all government employees. The order is couched in stark terms of treason and sedition and proposes to weed out the disloyal elements in the Civil Service. Hopefully flavored with the axiom that all the men serving a government must be faithful, the current tests seem to be the product of a bitter witch hunt rather than the outgrowth of natural security measures...