President Eisenhower said today that he has reached no personal decision on the loyalty of government economist Wolf Ladejinsky and that Harold Stassen, Foreign Operations Administrator, must take full responsibility for the eventual outcome of the case involving the Russian-born Jew who was the victim of anti-Semitism in one aspect of the affair.
Mr. Stassen has appointed Mr. Ladejinsky to an important post in the FOA despite the fact that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson still regards him as a security risk. Mr. Eisenhower described the Ladejinsky case as one where honest men were reaching different decisions on a difficult matter. He said he backs Mr. Stassen but that the latter must take the responsibility if his judgment proves wrong. The President emphasized that he personally had not reached a judgment on the case.
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