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Last week Arbitrator Edward Corsi, onetime New York industrial commissioner, later unhappy (four months) State Department immigration consultant in the Eisenhower Administration (TIME, May 2, 1955), upheld the Times. Ruled Corsi: "The Times's management has the right to be certain that the men who read, edit and headline the news will do the kind of job expected of them . . . [Managing Editor Turner] Catledge . . . expressed succinctly and convincingly the ingredients of the Times's loss of confidence in Mr. Shafer when he said: 'Not only must we be sure that the person who handles our [Communist] news...
State's ousted Immigration Consultant Edward Corsi called the program a "national scandal" (TIME, May 2). Cried Corsi: "Refugees are investigated to death" by McLeod's "security gang." Actually the security check has barred very few refugees. Out of 2,199 applicants in Germany and Austria, only 51 have been rejected on grounds of security...
...ought to have the courtesy to stay here and listen to me." roared Corsi. "All the patriotism in America does not reside in you and Mr. McLeod." Jenner, halfway out of the room, turned back to shout: "I'll put my loyalty against yours any time, Mr. Corsi...
Scott McLeod was "amazed and astonished" by Corsi's testimony. Back on the witness stand, he told the subcommittee: "I had no intimation of any personal ill will while Mr. Corsi was in the department. I resent the vituperative appellation of 'security gang.' It's not a gang; it is the Eisenhower team. I believe in it. and that...
McLeod and his boss, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, explained that they dropped Corsi because he insisted on assuming more authority than they had given him. From the first, McLeod told the subcommittee, Corsi refused to stay within the scope of his position, and complained bitterly that he did not have a worthy title. McLeod said that he told Corsi: "Title-schmitle-what do we care about title. If you want a big title, we'll get you one." Nevertheless, Dulles and McLeod waited until Corsi came under attack from Pennsylvania's security-sensitive Democratic Representative Francis...