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"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," he maintains, and pledges himself to the fight to legitimately "abolish" investigations which use such tactics.
This example of committee procedure is, I presume, somewhat extreme in its ruthlessness. And yet, in principle, it may be taken as representative. Senator McCarthy, sitting as a one-man committee was, to use his own word, making "accusations" against Mr. Rothschild whom, ostensibly, he was asking for co- operation...
Up to three years ago, swart young Gaspare Pisciotta was the close friend and trusted lieutenant of Sicily's most notorious bandit chieftain, Salvatore Giuliano (TIME, July 17, 1950 et seq.). Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Mario Scelba, who was then Italy's Interior Minister, Giuliano was...
"I have engaged in a course of conduct involving a succession of active adultery, disloyalty and deception," said one. Then it named nine women as Jimmy's partners in passion. In the second letter, Jimmy repeated his confession and, as penance, agreed to sign over 50% of all his...
At least since the days of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the literature of adolescence has been full of sensitive schoolboys hounded by packs of their coarser fellows. Novelists like to even the old scores retroactively by painting the tormentors as unmitigated monsters. In Scotland's Burning, a first novel with...