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It was not surprising that Van Dusen hesitated to take the plunge. The Student Christian Association asked him to stay on for a couple of years as graduate secretary, and he accepted. During those two years, there came to Princeton an odd, owl-faced man with a quiet voice and...
My sympathies go out to Colonel Frank Schwable, who . . . was tortured by the Communists and . . . put on trial in this country for falsely confessing that the U.S. had used germ warfare on the Chinese Communists [TIME, March 22] ... As for the value of such a confession to the enemy, I...
"But," said the judge, "I have your confession." Grajales answered: "I signed that paper because I had seen three weeks of solitary confinement with frequent beatings. I had to sign it. Now, before God, I swear that there is not one word of truth in my so-called confession." Silence...
"This Tormented Land." One after another, the remaining defendants pleaded not guilty and told almost identical stories of solitary confinements, night interrogations, beatings, hunger, thirst-always with only one way out: signing a confession. Defense Counsel Lacort passionately denounced the police methods. "Here," he said, "are methods unknown to any...
2. The committee methods, which seek, by threats and pressures, to secure confession of unpopular beliefs and associations, are identical, in their own legislative field, with those of the "third degree," in the criminal field, as that practice was defined in 1931 by the Report of the President's National...