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...parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last decade, the U.S. could boast of an enormous stride forward toward racial tolerance and understanding. Yet in Illinois last week, a grand jury of citizens exculpated the men who led the ugly Cicero race riots, indicted instead a man who pleaded for justice...
Students expressed amazement at the voluminous files of research contrasted with the brevity of stories as they appeared in print. After reading 29 pages on the Cicero race riot story, whittled to 3½ columns in the magazine, a University of Nebraska student said: "All this is so interesting-why didn't you use the whole thing?" Ecker likened the TIME story to an iceberg, with the small portion seen on the surface supported by the great bulk underneath. With a whole world to cover each week, TIME would quickly overburden its readers by reporting every detail of every...
...Cicero Story...
...with a great deal of dismay that we read the July 23 report "Ugly Nights in Cicero." That an entire community could be so bigoted and prejudiced . . . by participating in such a disgraceful spectacle of mob action is a matter of grave concern . . . If such attitudes were prevalent on a national scale we would have no reason to think we are any better than the tyrannical forces of Communism which we are opposing in Korea today, and it would certainly leave those of us in Korea with little purpose or reason for fighting...
...tour, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had a complaint to make. In a speech before the bigwig Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Dewey fished out a clipping from the English-language Singapore Straits-Times. Its front page carried a bannerline story and a four-column photo of the Cicero, Ill riots (TIME, July 23). Complained Dewey: "I am shocked to find that an incident of racial prejudice involving a few hundred people out of a nation of 150 million people is front-page news in Singapore...