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...were so many Red spies coming to light at once?* Whenever one great power has a big espionage roundup, as Russia did last May in the trial of Russian Scientist Oleg Penkovsky, who turned out to be a longtime Western agent, spies elsewhere brace themselves for a period of rough weather. Furthermore, there is a seasonal factor involved; summer is the traditional time to put the finger on spies. Around the end of June, many Communist "diplomats" prepare to go home for vacations and new instructions. Having had an eye on them already, the FBI then often decides to pounce...
Oldtimers got it too. The Untouchables has been given the St. Valentine's Day treatment after four years. Have Gun, Will Travel and The Rifleman, six and five years old respectively, are headed for the last roundup. Car 54 will soon be roughly three cubic feet of crushed scrap steel. Naked City, the fine semidocumentary on New York police work filmed in the city streets, is finished too. The last vestiges of live, prime-time drama, the U.S. Steel Hour and Armstrong Circle Theater, are also passing away. Moreover, all three college-level educational shows are leaving the networks...
Unleashing the Sleuths. Palmer, who had ambitions to succeed Wilson as President, finally did something. He ordered a roundup of suspicious aliens, a project partly supervised by the young J. Edgar Hoover. Justice Department agents zealously invaded homes and made many arrests without warrants. They pulled people out of pool halls and other public places and jammed them into overcrowded detention centers. When they raided meeting halls, they sometimes did not bother to find out who was meeting; in one instance, they jailed 39 people who were meeting to form a bakery cooperative. Since the Sedition Act of 1918 allowed...
Anne Frank's nightmares finally ended in the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in March 1945. Last week the man who, as Adolf Eichmann's legal expert, helped organize the roundup of Anne and 110,000 other Dutch Jews was arrested in Austria and held for investigation on the charge of having "aided and abetted" the massacre. He was former SS Captain Erich Rajakowitsch, 57, for whom life as a respectable businessman in Italy had abruptly come...
...alive have suffered more for their God and their convictions than Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. 71. Archbishop of Esztergom and Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary. During World War II, he was jailed by the Nazis for protesting against the roundup of Hungary's Jews. After the war. he fought the Communist takeover of his country, and in 1949 was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment on trumped-up charges of treason, espionage and black marketing. The Western world bled for the gaunt, tortured prelate, mechanically confessing his guilt for nonexistent crimes before an unfeeling judge. Briefly freed...