Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready Answers. Dapper Dan Enright had a ready answer: Stempel's story had long since been proved false. Stempel had indeed tried to peddle his story to the New York Post and the Journal-American more than a year ago, and neither paper had been sufficiently convinced to print...
Though 31 states do allow some degree of privileged communication to a clergyman, the right is still not recognized as a rule of common law. British judicial opinion since the Restoration has been almost unanimous in denying it, mainly out of ancient enmity to the confessional system of the Roman Catholic Church. But many leading British attorneys have differed. "Practically," Lord Chief Justice Sir John Coleridge said in the 1890s, "the question can never arise while barristers and judges are gentlemen." But if it did, according to Sir James Willes, he was satisfied that priests have an actual legal right...
Other testimony: Sommer beat a Weimar pastor, hung him outside, dashed buckets of water on him and left him to freeze to death. He beat a Catholic priest to death for hearing the confession of a fellow prisoner.
Died. Bohumil Lausman, 55, chairman of Czechoslovakia's Social Democratic Party before the Communist coup of 1948, man of many-phased, sincere but confused cold-war loyalties; in Prague. In 1946 Lausman liked the Russians; in 1947 he denounced them, but became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia when the Reds...
Abandoned by their idols and outflanked by the Army-which has quietly taken over almost all key posts in the Algerian civil administration-the diehards had little choice but to make what amounted to a humiliating confession of defeat, joining the other members of the Public Safety Committee in a...