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...leadership now confronts it. There is evidence that millions of peasants and businessmen who have suddenly swarmed into rural cooperatives and urban state enterprises dislike and distrust the new order as much as they ever did. The same accounts attest that thousands of new organizations, brought into being to brainwash the new recruits, are little more than paper houses. It is predictable that within a few weeks or months the same leaders who now cry triumph will again be berating their terrorist cadres for "rightist lethargy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High Tide of Terror | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...national monument," the doctor tells him. "That monument must be ... defaced." The method: "I intend to find his weakness and use it to destroy him." In a word: brainwash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

...Progressive. One by one on quiet Governors Island the witnesses unfolded a forlorn panorama of windswept P.W. camps by the Yalu, with their squalid mud huts and icy compounds, and their Chinese Communist officers-"Wong" and "Ragmop" and numberless others-who were constantly seeking to brainwash the G.I.s and undermine their allegiance. Aiding the Communists, the witnesses testified, were the G.I. "progressives," and one of their leaders was Sergeant Gallagher. Opposing them in the psychological struggle were G.I. "reactionaries," led by Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate of Augusta, Ga., also a Regular, who used both oral argument and force to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: A Mean & Cruel Heart | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...serving notice that hereafter statements of our prisoners, made to the enemy, would be a bunch of fairy stories. Worldwide publication of such an Executive Order would make the Reds look ridiculous on this side of the Iron Curtain when and if they attempted to use brainwash "confessions" in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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