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...regime allows neither freedom of expression nor freedom of silence. What he meant was plain last week at a "self-accusation" meeting of students and teachers of Peking's famed Yenching University (TIME, Feb. 26). Professor after professor and pupil after pupil stood up to confess the blackest sin in Communism's book: pro-Americanism. Among the breast-beaters...
...experiment indicates, according to Professor Redlich, that well-balanced people can stick to a lie in spite of sodium amytal. But neurotics are likely either to confess eagerly, as the ex-model did, or get all tangled up, sometimes telling fantasies more damaging than the truth. In any case, Professor Redlich believes that statements made under the influence of sodium amytal and related drugs should not be treated as simple truth. A psychiatrist might make some sense out of them, but not a judge or a jury...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...
...guided through to a reconciliation. All Julia Shelhamer knows about most of the people who call her is that they seem to get real help from her sure faith and reassuring words: "I know the Lord will answer prayer. Will you pray with me? If you will only confess your sins, God will take that sin away and remove the feeling of guilt...
Kingsley's N. S. Rubashov is, like Koestler's, a fallen intellectual commissar whose own harsh weapons have been turned against him. He will soon be shot, but, because of his importance, he must be made to confess his "crimes." He remains the old-line Bolshevik who does confess, who does die a Communist, though the Communism he dies...