ten (10) employees–"none of them of top policy-making rank"–on unspecified grounds of disloyalty, as reported by Joseph Alsop and Stewart Alsop. On November 2, 1947, Bert Andrews published "A State Department Security Case" in the Herald-Tribune based on security a secret transcripts. Robinson's name appeared prominently. Andrews described "Mr. Blank," an unnamed State Department official among those discharged without specific charges. Articles continued for some days almost daily by Andrews. The Washington Post reacted the next day with concern: "Without access to what the FBI reported, there is no way of knowing whether Mr. Blank was a doubtful security risk." In a comment, New Yorker magazine compared Mr. Blank's story to Franz Kafka's book The Trial. It also singled out Robinson: "Hamilton Robinson, a member of the panel, explained the difference between loyalty and security. 'I think loyalty,' he said, must necessarily be a conscious proposition. Security or the lack of it, might be conscious or unconscious'." In an article co-written by Yale Law School professor Thomas I. Emerson, its journal questioned the propriety of the story by noting: "The courts have never tolerated the failure to produce in open hearing any part of the evidence upon which the deciding official relies in an administrative adjudication requiring a fair hearing" and cited a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. On November 17, 1947, the State Department reversed its policy. It authorized the seven resignations "without prejudice" and offered right to appeal before a Loyalty Review Board. Meanwhile, congressional investigator Robert E. Lee discovered and examined security files for 108 suspect cases, which resulted in the "Lee List" used by a congressional subcommittee. During a congressional hearing on March 10, 1948, Assistant Secretary of State Peurifoy claimed the number had dropped from 108 to 57. (On February 9, 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day "Enemies Within" speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. His words in the speech are a matter of some debate, as no audio recording was saved. However, it is generally agreed that he produced a piece of paper that he claimed contained a list of known Communists working for the State Department. McCarthy is usually quoted to have said: "The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist