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...must confess my faith has cost me nothing . . . I have never been hungry. I have not been in prison. I have never had a stone thrown at me . . . I was born in a free land . . . I bow . . . before my colleagues . . . who know the meaning of prison cells, of fetters, of hunger...
...meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think it was a mistake in those circumstances to try to hand...
Fierce-mustachioed, fiercely anti-Communist Author Guareschi* does not try to plumb the curious complex of politics, economics and emotional contradictions that causes millions of Italians to pray devoutly to God. confess to their priests, and cast their ballots for Communists. To solve this dilemma in fiction would be to do more than Italy has accomplished in reality. Some of the 25 sketches in this volume, like those in its two predecessors (The Little World of Don Camillo, Don Camillo and His Flock), show the marks of haste; all were written originally for a right-wing humorous weekly that Writer...
...February, Farm Boss Khrushchev had to confess to the Central Committee of the party that the output of bread grain was also insufficient. "The quantity of grain that remains on collective farms" after the state has collected its quotas, said he, was not enough to pay off the workers on the collective farms. And what the state got, grabbing first, was not enough to fill needs at home and increasing demands for exports to the food-short satellites...
Winding Sheet. To make Joseph confess, the Gouws tied him to a tractor and beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck...