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From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME'S influence, I think, or rather its undistorted articles one reads every week and remembers easily, brought forth this change...
...Lubianka. When Anders still refused to join the Red Army and to confess to crimes he had never committed, he was taken to Moscow's Lubianka prison. Here he was again submitted to the NKVD treatment-sometimes being wooed with cigarettes and tea, at other times being smashed in the face and kicked...
...blushingly confess, the mother of four children, the oldest of whom is nearly four, so I am used to all sorts of inferential insults, ranging from "Medieval!" to "Get a calendar!"-this last from Catholics...
Coward's Conversion. In a chapter headed "Shame and Wounded Snobbery," jesting G.B.S. turns dead-solemn and hands out a brand-new episode from his life-a "snob-tragedy" which profoundly influenced him although it caused him such anguish that he was never able to confess it even to his wife...
Last fortnight, Bishop Herrera himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...