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Well, anyhow, it came down to the fact that what they were alarmed about was the fact that somebody had discovered them in the Government, in Civil Service positions, many of them--the classified Civil Service as well as all positions of Civil Service. There is the classified and the unclassified. The unclassified are those who have none of the protections of the-Civil Service. They're taken on for a period of years, or a period of months, as unclassified. They don't have to pass an examination, except they have to be moderately well qualified, but they have none of the tenure of office and all that sort of thing. But these people were occuring in the classified as well as the unclassified service, and some of them had been doing very suspicious things and some of them had very suspicious backgrounds and had been connected with strange organizations and had some of them had even joined the Communist Party, so they say.

Well, I began to see that this was a very serious business.

Was Mr. Mitchell an alarmist sort of person?

No, Mr. Mitchell was not an alarmist, and Mr. Mitchell was a natural liberal and had always belonged to the liberal wing of everything that he had any ideas about. He proved in this case to have just exactly that kind of inclination, to overlook the minor indiscretions