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...hours police combed the area, finally picked up a Negro hitchhiker named Silas Rogers, and got him to confess that he had stolen the car in Raleigh, N.C., shot the cop. The court would not allow Rogers' confession to be used at his trial; there was clear evidence he had confessed only after a brutal third degree. But when the two soldiers identified Rogers as the Negro who had picked them up in the stolen car, he was convicted, sentenced to death...
...across the face of London. Main highways and back alleys wind through its campus. Students of medicine and Marathi, English history and household work commute to classes. "Could anything be more absurd?" asked Educational Critic Abraham Flexner in his famed 1930 critique of American, English and German universities. "I confess myself unable to understand in what sense the University of London is a university...
...does not manage to authenticate as history, but which have at least fictional verisimilitude. Stalin's bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...
Since Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the Western world has been able to understand, however dimly, the motives that make loyal Communists confess crimes they did not commit. Since the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and Robert A. Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect...
...when Stockwell insisted that he had spent his time in China preaching the Gospel and working for charitable institutions, the Reds sent him back to his cell for more "self-reflection." They wanted him to confess to "crimes against the state," e.g., working for UNRRA...