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...Advisory Committee on Prisoners of War reported to the President. "The name, rank and service number provisions of the Geneva conventions is accepted as this line of resistance. However, in the face of experience, it is recognized that the P.W. may be subjected to an extreme of coercion beyond his ability to resist. If in his battle with the interrogator he is driven from his first line of resistance, he must be trained for resistance in successive positions. And, to stand on the final line to the end-no disclosure of vital military information, and above all no disloyalty...
...majority of all nations, I believe, are united in another hope: that every government will abstain from itself attempting, or aiding others to attempt, the subversion, coercion, infiltration or destruction of other governments in order to gain political or material advantage or because of differences in philosophies, religions or ideologies...
...measure of inflation. There have been nine price cuts in clothing and food since the war, but none this spring. The reduced purchasing power of the ruble, not compensated by an increase in wages, has caused dissatisfaction among the workers who have not responded to the usual methods of coercion and Stakhanovite exhortation to work harder on "the march towards Communism." Result: many state enterprises are not fulfilling their "plans...
Basic Difference. "The important difference is that in Russia the coercion of confessions is ... legal and avowed, while with us it is always illegal and secret...
That difference is basic. It means that we have a principle of justice on which we can rely to bring such coercion into disrepute and disuse...