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you see--they relied upon this phrase “where there is reasonable doubt of his loyalty.” That means, according to the lawyers and everybody else, where reasonable men will believe that he is disloyal, where reasonable men can see some reasonable reason for believing that he is disloyal.

Of course, that's a very fine point. But there you needed mature minds, and I think you got mature minds. I doubt if there's a single case in which the Loyalty Review Board did an injustice to an individual. When they said they must be separated, I think there was reasonable reason for their separation.

Now, when the Loyalty Review Board was broken up, after the change of Administration, and a new system which Mr. Brownlow had devised and which nobody understands what it is came in, it was different. I mean, I don't understand what it is. I don't understand what they do or how they do it, or who says what. When this happened, Mr. Brownlow gave as his reasons that the Loyalty Review Board had been a total failure, which it hadn't. We put out some figures then to show the number of cases that had passed through their hands, the number of cases in which they had separated individuals, the number of cases in which they had removed the individuals from a special line of work, and the number of cases in which