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In Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition...
If the Barnes Bill becomes law, the SDA anticipates a fully purge of all liberal teachers in Massachusetts and has stated its unqualified disapproval of any investigation of this kind which would jeopardize academic freedom.
"Up-to-Date as a Model T." Also listed were the American Youth for Democracy (once the Young Communist League) and eleven schools which Tom Clark's sleuths decided were Communist Party incubators. From William Z. Foster, boss Communist in the U.S., came the expected cry: "A purge list...
It is true that in many cases to present the board with full details and witnesses would be to reveal secret FBI methods and perhaps even to lay open an entire chain of counter-espionage. In such cases, as Associate Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger declared in the New York Times...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the...