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Weissberg's arrest was part of the "Great Purge" that followed the first Moscow trials. The G.P.U. gave him a wide choice of crimes to "confess," but their highest hope was that he would admit to organizing a plot to murder Stalin. They were deeply offended when Weissberg not only resisted admitting this, but insisted that he was also innocent of such lesser delinquencies as planning to blow up the Kharkov tractor works, or of building a "counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, fascist, terrorist, diversionist and espionage organization ... on the territory of the Soviet Union...
...even after the Communists took over the village. But in October she wrote her oldest son, Joe Lum Jang, a San Francisco apartment operator, a frightened letter. She had been arrested by the Communists for the peculiar crime of "mistreating her daughter-in-law." They attempted to make her "confess" by torture, but she refused. Then her face was daubed with paint-the mark of an "unlawful woman"-and she was forced to stand before the village courthouse without food or water. After a day and a night she broke down and paid a fine...
...mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die ... He has made us the lords of civilization . . . The Philippines are ours forever." They heard President McKinley trying to set his own mind straight: "When ... I realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps, I confess I did not know what to do with them ... I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance . . ." The guidance McKinley thought he got was that the ILS. should annex the islands; it was the U.S.'s duty to "Christianize" and civilize a nation that...
...Jews have a great heritage. Many of us do not appreciate it. Only when the great majority confess to living our Judaism as it has been handed down to us through the many centuries will we have the respect and love of our Christian neighbors...
...Police arrested him, found he was studying in the Western sector, and accused him of being an American spy." When after 48 hours of questioning he did not confess, the Police gave him a document for signature to prove his innocence. The paper states that the accused will turn informer, "so in order to prove that he was not an American spy, he would have to become a Soviet...