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I said, “These files surely can't be personal. They look like official flies, immigration files, files of investigations.”

Well, we're just trying to get ours.”

I said, “Surely anything personal must be in your desks and not in the files. How about it?”

“Well, we just wanted to get a few little belongings.”

I said, “But where are your belongings?”

“Well . . . they're scattered.”

I sad, “Well. I think I'll have to move quickly and say that you're not to take anything out of the files and that you're to leave the building at once, tonight. If your have anything personal here, I suggest that those of you who have any personal belongings come tomorrow morning after the Department s open and that you make known to Mr. White, the Assistant Secretary, what you want. He will assist you in getting your personal belongings. I think I'll have to ask you to leave the building now.”

I may say that it was a moment of considerable tenseness, because I saw running through the more thuggish of these people the determination not to leave the building. They had been surprised. They had bullied their way into the building, of course, because they came to it after everybody had left, after the official force had left. Only the old guard