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fear of Communism which had begun then. It was not as well distributed as it is today, but there were the beginnings of it. And that phrase had been put into the oath at that time by some ambitious Congressman or by somebody else, I don't know.

A number of persons were charged during the second World War with being Communists and having sworn that they were not. Among them was a man in the State Department named Marzani. He was a very able and intelligent and effective young man, and a man who made a very excellent impression wherever he went. Among other places where he got assigned to work was the Board of Economic Welfare. He worked there. He worked in different places, all in that general connection with foreign affairs. He lectured over in Alexandria, and the studants of the Alexandria Theological Seminary went to hear him because as so interesting. He was a very effective and pleasant person.

Then there began to be rumors--this was before I came into the Commission--there began to be rumors about him, and they reached the Civil Service Commission, and the Civil Service Commission hailed him in to answer to these rumors and so -forth. They couldn't get anything real. I mean, they couldn't pin it down. He was plausible. His statements were plausible, and they could get no real line on the