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...Social origins?" asked the court chairman. "Son of a miller," came the halting, hesitant reply. "Does the defendant plead guilty?" "Yes," said the same slow, careful voice. It paused, then went on: "I confess ... I repent...
...Associated Press Correspondent Bill Oatis confess? Newsmen all over the free world expected a ringing answer to the question when Oatis was released by the Czechs three months ago, after serving two years of a ten-year sentence on a charge of spying (TIME, May 25). But they were disappointed. Frail (123 Ibs.), tuberculous and bewildered by his unexpected reprieve, Oatis begged off answering until he could rest and get medical treatment. This week, in newspapers all over the U.S. and in the pages of LIFE, Bill Oatis, 39, explained not only why he confessed but how the Czech Communists...
What is the secret of the Communists' success at wringing confessions from their victims? Writes Oatis: "Sometimes it was the overwhelming pressure of fatigue. Sometimes it was the compulsion of an undeniable fact, sometimes the ambiguity of a deceptive fiction. But most of all it was my knowledge of their power and my helplessness, and my conviction that to confess, and to confess what they wanted me to confess, was my only way out. It was not a way out. of course. There wasn't any. But I didn't know that until the judge said...
...heartening to know that Reinhold Niebuhr not only has at last seen the evils of Marxism but has been man enough to confess it [TIME, Aug. 24]. On the other hand, the harm he has done to the American Protestant clergy is incalculable, for not only is he the key man at Union Theological Seminary, but the outstanding leader in the revival of theology in most of our denominations. Thousands of ministers have been soft toward Communism because of their own Marxist illusions. It is to be hoped that many of them will now follow Dr. Niebuhr in his repentance...
...still convalescing when a message arrived from the U.S. commander in Cologne, reinstating him as mayor. Five months later, when Cologne became a part of the British zone, Adenauer was sacked for "inefficiency." The British government has since offered to "confess its mistake," but Adenauer has no hard feelings? Being fired by the British made him a hero, and his popularity boomed. He began laying the foundations for his Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), and when the Allies summoned a Parliamentary Council, he was named its president...