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That's the last I've heard of him. At any rate, he's one of the people that one became convinced of as following the Communist line without having any proof. One became convinced just by peculiar circumstances and peculiar behavior.

Of course, during the war, as a matter of fact, there was relatively little reporting of sabotage throughout our manufacturing and munitions supply industries. There was a little. Every now and then a report would come in that there was sabotage here or there. I think it was usually pretty nearly well handled by the military security police. There was either Army or Navy security police in every factory that had any kind of important arms contract. They were, of course, not uniformed. They were around doing the work that other people did. The Army or the Navy, whichever had the contract there, always got a weekly report from them. I think that on the whole they handled their cases pretty well. They would just get rid of the employee who was suspected, or sometimes definitely known to have done something that would hold up the work

These sabotage cases were not by any means all Communists. Even the Army police would usually agree





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