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...said that, like Slansky, he had tried to kill Gottwald, his dear friend. He fingered John Foster Dulles of the U.S., Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, and Ales Bebler of Yugoslavia as "spies." Ludvik Frejka, author of the Czechoslovak two-and five-year plans, took the stand to confess: "I sabotaged in such a way that there is still rationing of electricity and food in Czechoslovakia." The wife of accused former Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London wrote the court that she at first believed her husband innocent, but after reading the indictment realized he was a traitor. She asked...
First with the Smear. He got ten weeks in which to confess publicly that he had erred in 1) not ordering the 1944 rising against the Germans, and 2) quarreling with party leaders. Snapped Guingouin: "When are they going to make their auto-criticism and admit their fundamental error?" The party leaders replied by firing him from all executive party jobs. Guingouin fought back with a stream of letters to Communist journals and a confidential memo saying party bureaucrats had "lost all touch with the working masses." He hinted that, if expelled from the party, he might tell...
Allende was one of the Argentine Labor Party leaders who is 1948 were arrested and tortured by the Peron police. This was an attempt to make the leaders confess they had tried to assasinate Peron as part of a U.S. plot to overthrow the Argentine government...
...France (TIME, Sept. 29). To Marty, professional party roughneck who fought in the 1919 Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...
...name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich Fey, the boss of the St. Mary restoration job, had painted and sold to German dealers and collectors "approximately 600" clever fakes of everything from Rembrandts to Utrillos...