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Although Edward J. Corsi has demonstrated that the immigration program is a "failure," the Administration listens hopefully to the promises of Secretary Dulles and Scott McLeod that we shall fill our quotas. By this time, however, few people remain so naive as not to realize that the present national origins quota is discriminatory. The McCarran Act or even the Refugee Relief Act could hardly be called welcome mats...
...Corsi was attacked by Francis E. Walter (D) of Penna., co-author of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, for alleged association with Communist-front organizations in the 1930's, but Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denied that Corsi lost his job for security reasons...
Dulles said that Corsi's 90-day appointment expired, and that he is being offered another job. Cheever asserted, however, that Corsi was released as "his administration of the McCarran-Walter Act was unacceptable to right-wing Democrats, and Dulles may have made a deal to remove Corsi for Democratic concessions on other foreign relation bills, probably the Reciprocal Trade Program...
Almost from the time of his appointment, immigration expert Corsi began to exhibit alarming tendencies. He actually took to heart the task of expediting the flow of immigrants and even showed mild shock at the fact that only 15,000 of a scheduled 209,000 refugees had received their visas in two years. He went so far as to suggest that State Department security chief Scott McLeod relinquish control of the refugee program, despite McLeod's enthusiastic administration of the Refugee Relief Act's security provisions. Worst of all, Corsi attacked the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As Secretary Dulles well...
Nevertheless, the Corsi affair leaves several unanswered questions. In January, after all, Dulles called Corsi "the best qualified man in the United States" to lift the administration's refugee program out of the doldrums that have gripped it for its first two years. The American public can only hope that the Secretary's judgment has improved in those three months, for he may soon be called upon to make even more important decisions. The Corsi controversy recalls the Republican campaign in 1952, when President Eisenhower urged the revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party...