Coverage should also be extended to Federal Government civilian employees.

Our essential economic problem is to put to sound, productive use our increasing technical knowledge and our growing labor force.

One of the great advances in economic legislation made during the 1930's was to establish the Federal-State system of employment security.

I am highly pleased that you find it possible to undertake an assignment as Special Assistant to the President prior to assuming your duties later this year as President of the University of North Carolina.

It is now time for us also to look ahead and assure ourselves that our own policies are those which will serve best to reinforce our economic strength and that of the other free nations of the world.

This assistance is essential to help not only Europe but other areas of the world to recover from the war and to strengthen their economies against communist subversion or aggression.

I have felt obliged, therefore, to direct the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission not to comply with your subpoenas.

This approach must have as its final goal a practical and forward-looking course of action.

The task which you are undertaking is of major importance to this country.

The present unbalanced situation places a heavy burden upon our national Budget.

Our basic purpose has been, and must continue to be, to help build a structure of international economic relationships which will permit each country, through the free flow of goods and capital, to achieve sound economic growth without the…

I wish to cooperate with your Subcommittee in every reasonable way, and for that reason I have asked the bipartisan Loyalty Review Board to make an independent review of the loyalty cases before your Subcommittee.

It is hardly necessary to emphasize again that economic security is an essential element of political security.

It is my desire, however, that the charges of disloyalty made before your Subcommittee be given the most thorough and complete investigation.

I am, therefore, asking Mr. Seth Richardson, Chairman of the Loyalty Review Board, to have the Board arrange for a complete and detailed review, as soon as possible, of the cases in which charges of disloyalty have been made before your…

I issued it only after the most careful consideration, and after I had satisfied myself beyond any doubt that any other decision would have resulted in the collapse of the loyalty program.

I cannot over-emphasize this point.

Upon receipt of Mr. Richardson's report, I will advise your Subcommittee further.