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So MacCormack had a very brilliant career. He represented Persia at the League of Nations in their negotiations on opium and all that sort of thing. In his explorations of the opium question he had had some very tough run-ins with Chinese, Persians, Indians, British subjects, and everything. There was always a pretty dirty trade in opium. So he knew the worst about human nature and about life.

When he came back, he went into the Fiduciary Trust Company and was the head of it. Just about the time that I was looking around desperately for someone to head up the Immigration Service he telephoned me that he'd had a big row with the other officers and directors of the Fiduciary Trust company and that he was sure he was right and was sure they were wrong. He had resigned and that was to take effect very soon. He said, “If here is any place in the government where I would be some good, let me know. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory instead of going out to nothing, because I'm right and they'll rue the day that they took this action. It's dishonest, among other things.”

I knew him quite well, knew the quality of individual he was and the quality of his honesty too - that it was all wool and a yard wide. He was absolutely trustworthy and frightfully competent. I said to him on the telephone, right then and there, “Dan, this is kind of a miracle,