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...debate about the firing of State Department Immigration Consultant Edward Corsi (TIME, April 25) shrilled on last week, it took a sudden but inevitable change of course. Instead of focusing on how many immigrants can be brought to the U.S. under the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, the argument began to turn on how many Italian-American votes the Democrats can take away from the Republicans as a result of the Corsi affair...
Before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee problems, New Yorker Corsi loudly played to the hilt the role of a martyred champion of refugees who are seeking to enter the U.S. The refugee act. he said, became a "national scandal" because of the way it was administered by "a security gang" led by Robert W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's security director. Cried Corsi: "The administration of the act is wholly dominated by the psychology of security. Refugees are investigated to death . . . The investigation, the police job, is the thing, not the admission of refugees. That is just...
...Gang" v. "Team." After it echoed around Capitol Hill and the nation's press, Corsi's "security gang" label began to sizzle. At the next day's committee hearing. Indiana's Republican Senator William Jenner shouted at Corsi: "You used strong language here yesterday. You said Mr. McLeod heads a 'security gang.' I want to tell Mr. McLeod that he is doing a good job, and that won't be the last time he's called something like that. Anybody who does a good security job can expect to be smeared with...
...Last week the 90 days were up and Corsi quit, with a letter to Secretary Dulles denouncing "an intolerant minority, both in Congress and within the State Department itself, which believes that in this world there are superior and inferior races. These people are sabotaging the refugee program and have brought about my elimination...
...extol an Administration." This week, on the day after the speech, the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston angrily set Harry Truman straight: "Mr. Truman should have a talk with John Foster Dulles some time, if he can disentangle that gentleman from Mr. Corsi or get him out from under those Yalta papers. Or he should talk to Secretary of Defense Wilson. For while the editorial pages have been, as usual, partial to the Republican Administration, and some criticisms leveled at the Cabinet might very well have been aimed at the President, the surprising thing...