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Budapest-born Arthur Koestler was the first to dramatize the theory that a strong shot of ideological doubletalk, administered with a minimum of sleep, was enough to persuade an old Communist to confess to, and even agree to be shot for, errors he had not committed. Though a brilliant anti-Communist novel, Koestler's Darkness at Noon left the lingering impression that the Communist inquisitors won by superior cunning...
...good deal simpler and more sinister than what Koestler imagined. The 1949 show trial of Hungary's Communist Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk read as if it had been taken from Koestler's pages. Apparently for reasons of party unity, Rajk, like Koestler's Rubashov, confessed in court to treasonable deviation. But no relentless interrogator was needed to persuade Rajk to confess. The job was done by Rajk's friend Janos Kadar, now the puppet Premier of Hungary...
...involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens of businessmen stepped forward to confess that profit-sharing with the President had been for years the only way to operate...
...modest $280 million on its lagging defense, and has threatened to stop all support payments for the four British divisions in Germany after May 1957. The British taxpayer, Macmillan made clear, was fed up with Germany's letting Britain carry Germany's defenses. Since Germany had to confess that it could supply only 360,000 German troops instead of the 500,000 it had promised, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano agreed to make up the difference by continuing to pay British support costs...
...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...