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G. Bromley Oxnam's name appears on list after list--

So does Harold Ickes'.

Yes, I know. On list after list of people who were interested in various projects that had a Communist interested in them too, you see. I don't think that the F.B.I. ever accused G. Bromley Oxnam of being a Communist, but the investigating committee of a Congress doesn't make a distinction between the information that the F.B.I. has got with regard to G. Bromley Oxnam, and the realities. It's a very poor report for their purposes.

Is this where it became a witch hunt?

Where what became a witch hunt?

This whole loyalty program--within the Congress, rather than within the Loyalty Review Board?

Yes, I think so. In the Congress and in the Press. In the Press. The Press always lends itself to this kind of thing. It did from the very beginning, and in the first place, in its attempt to pry out what they call “the facts in the case” by which they mean the things that are before the Board. The Board may decide not to weigh them very heavily, decide that they're only partially true, or that it's not complete