Corsis original task was completed and that he had "indicated his disinclination." in the Departments phrase. to perform the "painstaking work and administrative detail" that would follow. It is difficult to accept this labored explanation. Much more logical is the suggestion that he was dropped in order to avoid a fight with Representative WALTER and other defenders of a restrictionist immigration policy. Unfortunately. there is the ring of truth in Mr. Corsis charge to Secretary Dulles that the refugee program "will not work until you and the administration are willing to rescue it from the grip of an intolerant minority both in Congress and within the Department itself." It is perfectly true that Secretary Dulles can do nothing about the wording of the law. which has been described by a former Solicitor General of the United States as "in many respects the most discriminatory. the most restrictive and generally the worst piece of legislation on the subject ever enacted in the history of this Nation." It is true that Mr. Dulles cannot change the remarkable stipulation that administrator of the law be identical with the head of the State Departments Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. who happened then and happens now to be Scott McLeod. But it is also true that unless there are people like Mr.
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