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...even though most responsible military authorities abhor the Chinese atrocities, their Stoic code of conduct asks American prisoners to accept them without flinching. If the code allowed prisoners to sign all confessions demanded in violation of the Geneva Convention, on the other hand, the enemy's incentive for torture would disappear. The Communist captors would receive a plethora of confessions--the same confessions they now extract more painfully. Confessions signed so freely would convince no one who does not already believe the "confessions" Chinese Communists have obtained through unspeakable torture. Prisoners of war already carry too many burdens...
...course, that a conscientious citizen will genuinely entertain more of 'an abhorrence of unrestrained inquiry into beliefs' than of perjury. Yet the Government has constantly inquired into men's beliefs but never until recently did it occur to anyone to abhor...
...biographical pinnacle of the Eisenhower phenomenon presents us with Eisenhower's personal appeal to the voters. But the political and social base of the phenomenon consists of the reluctant conversion of the U.S. business community to the revolution in domestic and foreign policy which it professed to abhor. The conversion may not be completely honest or absolutely complete. But the fact of the conversion has been of great benefit. For in a democracy the crowning triumph of a revolution is its acceptance by the opposition...
...crime thriller, complete "with gunplay and side-mouthed snarls. The big conversion scene shows Billy Graham at work, and he might move some spectators as he did the movie's hero. But after a recent Los Angeles preview, one preacher rose to strike a blow for those who abhor the idea of luring people into the sinful movie house, even on God's behalf. Ex-Sinner Vaus came back at him fast: "This movie wasn't designed to reach the righteous," he said. "It was designed to bring sinners to God. It was designed to reach...
...Like the rest of our fellow Americans," Beer said, "we abhor communism because, among other things, it uses character assassination, star chamber procedures, and guilt by association, and glorifies the principle that the end justifies the means. All these methods are regularly used by Senator McCarthy...