Word: mccarranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleven Russian student editors originally scheduled to visit American colleges this spring have definitely cancelled their trip, the Soviet Foreign Ministry announced Saturday. The Russians objected to the provision in the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act which would require them to be finger-printed...
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...
...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 knows, Representative Walter is a formidable figure in Washington. After a slow start he is fast replacing the late Senator McCarran as the foremost Democratic practitioner of professional anti-Communism. In this light, the Secretary's decision to abolish Corsi's job appears...
...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 has not suffered a collective attack of amnesia on the subject of immigration. And one wonders how far Secretary Dulles will carry the logic of his bipartisan position. Not only Corsi, but Dulles himself has been the object of considerable Congressional criticism recently. Will...