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...face the Red treatment. In a lengthy comment, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the Corps commandant, did not quarrel with the court's finding in the individual case of Colonel Schwable. but he did attack the court's amazing generalization that under Red torture all prisoners must either confess or go mad or die. In Korea, there were many cases of tortured prisoners who did none of these. Said Shepherd: "Some found the strength in religious faith; a few possessed the toughness of fiber needed to defy their captors' every demand...
...newspapers, radios and orators are constantly exhorting the people: "Cultivate the style of bitter struggle." To the peasants they have directed warnings that baldly confess the dangers of starvation and their plans for dealing with it. "If the peasants do not carry out large-scale production," said People's Daily last November, "they will be unable to meet the needs of the nation . . . and will also cause difficulties for national industrial construction ... If the peasants do not unite to carry out large-scale production . . . there will surely be many poverty-stricken peasants." In short, if there is not enough...
...services could learn a lesson from Colonel Schwable's experience. Wars from here on in will be fought over ideological issues, and future prisoners can expect to be subjected to all sorts of torture ... My son is in the service, and I have told him: if ever captured, confess if you must. Don't give away positions or troop movements, but subjects such as germ warfare and the like are absurd. The facts will be brought to light later regardless of what they make you say about it. You have a gun at your head ... Be practical...
...General Dean said he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity. Dr. Joost K. M. Merloo, a Dutch psychiatrist who worked in the anti-Nazi underground during World War II, testified that any man-including the members of the court-would eventually confess if subjected to Communist mental torture...
...have a perverse sectional pride in our Southern demagogues, and have championed them as being considerably above those of other regions in any fair rating of aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...