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In this story it's important, because it had always been the duty of the Civil Service Commission to see that every person appointed took the oath of office, and it was the duty of the Civil Service Commission to separate them from their employment if, for any reason, they proved to have sworn falsely, you see.

During the War--I don't know how much this had been exercised before--but during the first World War there were a number of persons who had been separated from the Service under that clause, you see. Also, to be disloyal is to be of bad character, so there was ample opportunity for the Civil Service Commission to separate people from the Service for disloyalty, under the existing law--either because disloyalty spells bad moral character, or because to swear falsely is to take an oath which is not true. On the whole it was very simple, and had been done many times in the course of the fifty years the law had been on the statute books. Not too many times, but I mean enough times so that it was not an unfamiliar procedure.

During the second World War, there had been a number of cases of civil servants in the United States who had been charged by somebody with having taken a false oath, or being disloyal, or something of that sort. And this man this lawyer aide, had been in charge of that program in the Civil Service Commission. So he had some experience in that field. All these people