Word: confessions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...February, Farm Boss Khrushchev had to confess to the Central Committee of the party that the output of bread grain was also insufficient. "The quantity of grain that remains on collective farms" after the state has collected its quotas, said he, was not enough to pay off the workers on the collective farms. And what the state got, grabbing first, was not enough to fill needs at home and increasing demands for exports to the food-short satellites...
Winding Sheet. To make Joseph confess, the Gouws tied him to a tractor and beat him with a hose pipe. Then they dragged him into a tobacco shed, where watching Negroes counted 66 more lashes with the hose. "They kept lifting Joseph up and hitting him," said one witness afterwards. But Joseph persisted in his denial, so the Gouws tossed him into the truck again and drove off to consult their uncle, 69-year-old Pieter van Schalkwyk. While the family took coffee together, Joseph was left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck...
...face the Red treatment. In a lengthy comment, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the Corps commandant, did not quarrel with the court's finding in the individual case of Colonel Schwable. but he did attack the court's amazing generalization that under Red torture all prisoners must either confess or go mad or die. In Korea, there were many cases of tortured prisoners who did none of these. Said Shepherd: "Some found the strength in religious faith; a few possessed the toughness of fiber needed to defy their captors' every demand...
...newspapers, radios and orators are constantly exhorting the people: "Cultivate the style of bitter struggle." To the peasants they have directed warnings that baldly confess the dangers of starvation and their plans for dealing with it. "If the peasants do not carry out large-scale production," said People's Daily last November, "they will be unable to meet the needs of the nation . . . and will also cause difficulties for national industrial construction ... If the peasants do not unite to carry out large-scale production . . . there will surely be many poverty-stricken peasants." In short, if there is not enough...
...services could learn a lesson from Colonel Schwable's experience. Wars from here on in will be fought over ideological issues, and future prisoners can expect to be subjected to all sorts of torture ... My son is in the service, and I have told him: if ever captured, confess if you must. Don't give away positions or troop movements, but subjects such as germ warfare and the like are absurd. The facts will be brought to light later regardless of what they make you say about it. You have a gun at your head ... Be practical...