3 MYTHS HELP CONFUSE LIBERALS

...And the results of the Yalta Conference — where Hiss assisted Roosevelt and Stettinius—were more important for Stalin than the "pumpkin papers...

...He also has the right—if he can get away with it—to teach in a private college or write for a private newspaper...

...The cold war is not directed against a few seamy Thirteenth Street crackpots, but against the worldwide forces • of Soviet imperialism...

...2. That a few suspected Communists can't OS as ffiuik Samage to the nsWho would care to contend that President Truman's loyalty program has hurt the nation mors than Alger Hiss's treachery...

...Loss of government employment is neither a fine nor a prison sentence nor a public disgrace...

...Small-time operators like Judith Coplon can become key links in the Soviet network, but the damage done by an Alger If is* is more serious than the pilfering of documents...

...But the Court of Appeals has confirmed quite wisely the Prexldent'i right to discharge anyone from government service for reasons of doubtful loyalty, As long as the Administration favors housing and civil rights, no one would argue that Senator McCarthy's real estate lobby friends have a "right" to advise the Housing Expediter or that John Rankin's Ku Klux buddies hsve a "right" to make policy in the Justice Department...

...3. That everybody who hasn't played solitaire with Eugene Dennis "has a right" to a government Job...

...Or that Great Britain is better off for having caught up with Klaus Fuchs too late...

...In the global •fight for freedom to which this nation is committed, no one opposed to that fight has any right to a policy-forming job...

...And their .confusion is buttressed by three huge misconceptions which McCarthy and his ilk—who lack a real understanding of communism — have made no attempt to eradicate: 1. Thai sympathy for an economic dogma eatlad communism is a saliva test for "security risks...

...Henry Wallace doesn't want agriculture collectivized...

...Anyone who believes the psth to salvation leadV through Stalin (or Mao Tsc-tung j&r Ho Chi-minh or Tito) has the peyrect fight to stand up and say so...

...As long as the United States is engaged in "total diplomacy" against Soviet imperialism, it must be extremely careful in extending its privilege of employment...

...If it la dangerous to discharge a confused liberal as a Communist sympathizer (so fsr alt •neb cases have been only hypothetical), it is criminal negligence to stake the fate of millions of free people on the doubtful sympathies of a few otherwise pleasant diplomats...

...The Morgenthau Plan, which Harry White helped prepare, did great harm to American prestige in Germany...

...Not love for "communism as an abstraction," but sympathy for the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and its sworn allies—in or out of power— is the acid test...

...3 Myths Help Confuse Liberals By anatole SHUB 1IBERALS today are as skeptical of the charges against Owen Lattimoie, John Service, John Carter Vincent, . Haldore Hanson, Esther Brunausr and the rest as they were of Whittaker Chambers' original allegations against Alger Hiss, Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt, Harry White, et al...

...But his close adherence to the Stalinist international line makes him a bad "security risk...

...Harlow Shapley probably couldn't tell you what a kulak is, but that doesn't prevent him from screaming "peace"' while rubbing elbows with MVD agents...