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Sound trucks twisted through business and mercantile districts in Communist China's biggest cities last week, stopped before shops and blared: "Hey, proprietor! Evidence of all your misdeeds is now in our hands. Confess!" Huge banners flapped over city streets: "Sternly punish corruption culprits." Panicky merchants, traders, bankers, businessmen cowered before Red inquisitors, fidgeted in police stations or waited for the police to come. Throughout most of the country, commerce limped toward a standstill...
Family Secret is something of a problem movie. A law school student accidentally kills his best friend in a drunken brawl. There are no witnesses and he decides not to confess. The story deals with the strained relationships arising from this situation...
...Cobb as the murderer's father gives a masterful performance. Shaken by the boy's decision not to confess, he finds himself defending the man who has been falsely accused. He tries to proceed without recognizing his peculiar position. The other characters involved have similar problems, all revolving around the action of the guilty boy, John Derek. Further comment would give way what amounts to an intensely absorbing plot...
...Memory Course. Wrong as Wang proved to be about this observation (he was shot), Communist policy generally is to promise soft treatment for those who publicly confess their corruption. Once on the confession stand, the penitent is regarded with derision if he can remember no other misdemeanors but his own. In this way, in the first half of January, 6,400 Tientsin shopkeepers, called to public confession, were coaxed to give information which led to the unearthing of 6,000 other bribery and corruption cases. Last week, with thousands of Chinese rushing to get in first with their confessions...
...considered insufferable "provocation" by the G.P.U.-a deliberate attempt to undermine the confidence of the police authorities. Moreover, his rank entitled him to fabricate a really stunning spy story, superior in every way, for instance, to that of the simple worker in a cooperative fishery, who could only "confess" to having told the Germans how many fish were caught each month. And finally, the G.P.U. expected his "confession" to be watertight, as befitted the work of a well-trained Communist. "You've got to make [it] as though it were true," explained a fellow prisoner who acted...