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...rioting that swept the all-white Chicago suburb of Cicero when a Negro family tried to move into a local apartment (TIME, July 23), four town officials were flagrant accomplices of the mob. Police Chief Erwin Konovsky warned the Negroes to stay out of Cicero; two other policemen evicted them from the building in advance of the rioting; Town Attorney Nicholas Berkos conspired with police against the unwanted visitors. In Chicago last week, Cicero's four were convicted of crimes carrying maximum penalties of up to two years in prison...
...look upon Griffith's opus as a delightful historical pageant, but rather takes it as a credo and a profession of the White Man's Supremacy, and the need for that supremacy to assert itself--lest it all happen again. After recent "race" incidents in Detroit, St. Louis, Cicero, Cairo, Ill., and San Francisco, one should not say that Northern audiences are much more objective. I have my doubts about Boston...
...Cicero, in his De Officüs 1:72, said: "But those whom Nature has endowed with the capacity for administering public affairs should put aside all hesitation, enter the race for public office, and take a hand in directing the government; for in no other way can a government be administered or greatness of spirit be made manifest . . ." Isn't that a clear call for Eisenhower...
...only did "Cicero" conveniently turn up in Ankara during the location shooting of 5 Fingers, but I put him in touch with [Director] Joe Mankiewicz, who spent more than an hour in deep conversation with him in the gardens of the Ankara Palas Hotel. "Cicero," whose real name is Elesya Bazna ("Ulysses Diello" in the movie version), was only one of a dozen aliases adopted by this clever, unscrupulous little man during his daring exploits of espionage...
Shortly after Mankiewicz met Cicero, I turned up strong circumstantial evidence that Bazna, last July, was attempting to extract money from Soviet agents-including the chief of the MVD in Turkey. I informed the Turkish Sūretė, which trailed Bazna, arrested him and held him for . . . interrogations . . . He was released for want of documentary proof of his current espionage activities...