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I think it's the building where the Newspapers Associations are. He had a little bit of an office there. On one occasion when I was in Paris, this was in '45, he had been at us all. Wouldn't I come down and speak over the radio? This was radio piped into every French town, and so on. And this had been going on all through the war. It was a part of the information service. He'd run a kind of a secret radio at one time, and had followed up here after the liberation of Paris.

Well, I had met him there, and he was an alert vigorous young man, very keen, very interested in his job. When I became a member of the Civil Service Commission, one of the first cases that came before us was this man's case. He was a civil servant. He got a job in the U.S. Information Service. He didn't come to me for some time after his case was being developed, and then he came to see me, to see if couldn't I intercede?

Well, he had been a member of the Young Communist League when he was a student at some California university. I forget whether it was California or Washington he was at, but anyhow, he had joined one of these things, and he had a very bad reputation on campus of having been a disturber, a trouble-maker and so forth. He was very ardent. Carried the flag, you know, everywhere he went, and was at the head of the band, and all that. On one occasion one