Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memory Course. Wrong as Wang proved to be about this observation (he was shot), Communist policy generally is to promise soft treatment for those who publicly confess their corruption. Once on the confession stand, the penitent is regarded with derision if he can remember no other misdemeanors but his own. In this way, in the first half of January, 6,400 Tientsin shopkeepers, called to public confession, were coaxed to give information which led to the unearthing of 6,000 other bribery and corruption cases. Last week, with thousands of Chinese rushing to get in first with their confessions...
Weissberg's arrest was part of the "Great Purge" that followed the first Moscow trials. The G.P.U. gave him a wide choice of crimes to "confess," but their highest hope was that he would admit to organizing a plot to murder Stalin. They were deeply offended when Weissberg not only resisted admitting this, but insisted that he was also innocent of such lesser delinquencies as planning to blow up the Kharkov tractor works, or of building a "counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, fascist, terrorist, diversionist and espionage organization ... on the territory of the Soviet Union...
...considered insufferable "provocation" by the G.P.U.-a deliberate attempt to undermine the confidence of the police authorities. Moreover, his rank entitled him to fabricate a really stunning spy story, superior in every way, for instance, to that of the simple worker in a cooperative fishery, who could only "confess" to having told the Germans how many fish were caught each month. And finally, the G.P.U. expected his "confession" to be watertight, as befitted the work of a well-trained Communist. "You've got to make [it] as though it were true," explained a fellow prisoner who acted...
...even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid a fine...
...mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance . . ." The guidance McKinley thought he got was that the ILS. should annex the islands; it was the U.S.'s duty to "Christianize" and civilize a nation that...