Word: duress
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...July 11 issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly for the whim of it-collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received praise from his boss and the Senate committee. I wonder if it was with premeditation or happenstance that TIME placed these sad tales side by side to illustrate this inequality of our scales of justice...
...overall record of American prisoners in Korea showed that resistance to Red demands was neither futile nor lethal; defiant captives usually fared as well as abject collaborators. Last week the court of eleven officers evidently decided that-in the absence of dire and direct physical duress-dog meat, sulfa pills or any other material benefits were not reason enough for Fleming's conduct. The verdict: guilty of collaboration. The sentence: dishonorable dismissal, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances...
...military discipline? If a colonel who has violated the regulation against giving information to the enemy is restored to command, how can other soldiers follow him? But in good conscience, can a P.W.-even a regular officer of long service-be held responsible for actions committed under Communist duress...
...Snakes." When the Indians first went to Korea, they were sure that the U.N. was holding the anti-Communist P.W.s under duress, that the U.N.-not the Communists-was menacing the peace. They told the P.W.s at once that they would protect the P.W.s' "right to be repatriated" (not the right to non-repatriation). When the first explanations bogged down, Indian newspapers automatically blamed the U.N. "The U.N. command has actually obstructed the neutrals' work," said the National Herald of Lucknow, which is run by one of Nehru's favorite editors. "The U.N. side has not played...
...broke, whatever the treatment he got, be allowed to go back to command of troops or even to a desk job? The professionals' answer: no. The Pentagon intends to move slowly and cautiously in these cases, seeking a rule that will be fair to individuals who broke under duress and at the same time preserve the integrity of the services. The civilian heads of the military establishments have still to make up their minds what should be done. The military men have reached their own decision...