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the case, and we sometimes found that he was unsuitable for his employment, or she was unsuitable for the kind of employment she had, and we would provide for their getting out of it. There are lots of reasons for unsuitability, and among others, unsuitability would be labelled out by an active membership in the Communist Party, without any cessation. That we had to accept. That was the general dictum from the President's office. And I felt that the Civil Service Commission would handle it humanely, would make allowances for the natural poor judgment of youth, and would take into consideration the later performance of persons as well as their earlier performance, and various things.

Then, I remember, I think I had the idea of not allowing the Civil Service Commission itself to do this job, but to set up under the Civil Service Commission screening committees made up of Civil Service employees. The Civil Service Commission would authorize their action and would give general assent to their action, but there was an appeal from the Civil Service Commission's decision, to a Loyalty Review Board on the outside, which was made up of persons who were not and had not been in the civil Government, were not a part of the Government of the United States. They would be persons of distinction and persons of standing who would give a considerable part of their time to it, and who would