Word: confess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guards was a special section reserved for the defendants' relatives. First to come before the court was the Rev. Nikola Naumov, president of the Supreme Council of Bulgaria's United Evangelical Churches. He had always been known to his friends as a man of staunch convictions. "I confess I am guilty," he said in a clear voice. "I am sincerely sorry for what I have done." He remained on the stand for three hours. He said he had given military, economic and political information to foreign intelligence agents...
...Poland, "a thorough purge is going on in all phases of Jewish life . . . Politically conscious peoples are being forced to liquidate their past, and confess to crimes they never committed. Those who are able [to do so] flee the country...
Puzzling Answer. Deliberately, Acheson read off each question & answer in the Smith-Stalin exchange. Would Stalin "be prepared to consider the issuance of a joint declaration" asserting that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. had no intention of resorting to war? Stalin's answer was yes. "Now, I confess that I find this answer puzzling," said Acheson, since both nations were already pledged in the U.N. charter to refrain from "the threat or use of force...
...first ring was the House Un-American Activities Committee, which opened the case last summer when it subpoenaed Whittaker Chambers, heard him confess his past complicity and charge that Alger Hiss had also been a Communist...
...Fish. Rosita raced to La Moneda, Chile's White House. Carmen went home to tell her husband what she had done. He wasted no time on reproaches, hurried off to confess the whole business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...