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Perhaps he doesn't really intend to perform on those. But he presumably did.

Then he joins the Government, and he promises to uphold the Constitution and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and he says that he's not a Communist. It's definite. There he gets a definite split loyalty.

Personally, I don't think I, knowing the nature of Communism and the demand that it makes upon its members, would be willing to employ a Communist at any kind of a post that was remotely confidential or important to me, where it was important to me to know that the employee would carry out my directions, if they were not in the Government.

You mean by “fancy” they're very likely to have queer ideas? Well, “fancy” thinking would make me suspicious of it, but I can imagine a perfectly sensible man who was a Communist, and I think I would say, “I would rather not employ you. We'll employ you to take out the trash, if you want.”

But, I mean, I wouldn't want him in any position where I expected him to carry out my directions, because it's an unknown factor you don't understand-- you don't know about. You don't know where that loyalty lies, exactly, and you don't know what relation it has to your planning and thought. And of course, this is particularly true in the