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headway among a certain type of intellectual, and that some of those intellectuals had wormed their way into the Federal Government. The question was, how serious is it? How dangerous is it?

As I say, Mr. Mitchell was inclined to think it probably wasn't serious at all, although he agreed, in the case of Marzani, that it was reprehensible, because Marzani had deceived the world. He was a man living under two names, and had deceived the world completely about his status. That, he would agree, was very reprehensible. There might be other such cases, but he couldn't believe there were many.

Well anyhow, the gist of these conversations was, “What shall we do to stop it?” The Committee met for weeks--months--it was a year, fully, before they made a report to the President.

Can you tie this into the Wallace campaign? That's why I think the time was '47.

I said that I believed that this Committee was appointed in '47, didn't I?

It was fully a year before there was any report, which would bring it up to the spring of '48. I don't remember anything about Time magazine's campaign, except that there was a growing uneasiness about the whole Communist business.