25 MARCH 1955, Page 8

THAT HARD-WORKING body the Senate Internal Security Sub- Committee has

unearthed yet another scandal about President Roosevelt. It has discovered that the President in 1942 advised that radio operators in merchant ships should not be dis- charged solely because they were Communists. 'This policy of protecting American Communists . . .' says the sub-com- mittee in a report which throws new light upon the Battle of the Atlantic, 'weakened the Security programme in the United States Navy.' Until ihis revelation I had not regarded the 'pro- tection' afforded by being kept in the wireless cabins of American ships in the middle of an Atlantic infested by U-boats as much more reassuring than the 'protection' dispensed in the Twenties by Al Capone and his fellow potentates.