To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The CRIMSON editorial on "loyalty cheeks" of 25 March has only confused a dangerous situation, while calling for restraint on the part of the Attorney General, the CRIMSON suggests that the President new executive order has aggravated the problem. In reality the now procedure in a large improvement and should be hailed as such.

Tp date the determination of loyalty has been a clandestine operation, largely carried on by the FBI. The applicant or government job-holder wall never told the evidence on which a decision of loyalty was reached, nor permitted appeal. The standards of loyalty were neither standard nor known.

The President's order makes each department responsible for its own personnel, allows hearings at which the applicant and counsel may be present, establishes criteria of disloyalty, and permits appeal of two levels within the semi-judicial structure of the "Loyalty Review Board," now to be a part of the Civil Service Commission. It establishes uniform procedures where authoritarian secrecy existed before.

The CRIMSON was right in its main point, that loyalty must be clearly defined.... I agree that we do not have much reason to expect good administration from an Attorney General who sees no difference in banning Communists from the legislative and the executive branches of the government. For clearly in the one Communists are attempting to influence policy within the democratic structure and in the other usurping policy decisions. Francis D. Fisher '47