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When President Eisenhower announced in his State of the Union Message that he would seek changes in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, most opponents of the Act predicted that the President would continue to mouth platitudes about the need for revision, but do nothing to pressure Congress into action. Fears that the President would just continue to whistle his vague tune were happily corrected by his message to Congress last week, when he spelled out a program that seems to please even the strongest foes of the present immigration law. If he gives these measures the Presidential support necessary...
...Threefold Movement." Briefly, the President touched on some specifics, e.g., statehood for Hawaii, revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. before reverting to the theme of the "program for the republic begun three years ago." He concluded: "The vista before us is bright. The march of science, the expanding economy, the advance in collective security toward a just peace-in this threefold movement our people are creating new standards by which the future of the republic may be judged...
...Times gave the hearings the kind of full, deadpan coverage its readers expect, letting the story run from 4 to 5½ columns a day. But on the editorial page it angrily attacked the Eastland subcommittee and Counsel Sourwine, a protege of Nevada's late Senator Pat McCarran, with the kind of fighting words its readers rarely see. The editorial, "The Voice of a Free Press," brought hundreds of letters from readers (8 to 1 in favor). Excerpts...
...counsel stand-that is, because we have condemned segregation in the Southern schools; because we have challenged the high-handed and abusive methods employed by various Congressional committees; because we have denounced McCarthyism and all its works; because we have attacked the narrow and bigoted restrictions of the McCarran Immigration Act; because we have criticized a 'security system' which conceals the accuser from his victim; because we have insisted that the true spirit of American democracy demands a scrupulous respect for the rights of even the lowliest individual, and a high standard of fair play...
...President's general terms, and flood insurance is something that both parties should uphold. The President seems to have come around to the Democratic position on a pay-as-you-ride highway construction program, so there should be enough support for this important measure. A review of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act is another suggestion that ought to be adopted...