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...back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing. To make a good trial, a new charge was added: desertion. Private Schleicher, duly court-martialed, was resigned to getting five years in prison, when the Russians stepped in, shipped him off to Siberia...
Nine months of exile from the Metropolitan Opera was more than Baritone Robert Merrill, 33, could stand. He had made big money in the Siberia of the movie and TV studios, but after all, he was a singer and the Met was "my life." He penned a chastened apology to General Manager Rudolf Bing, who had sacked him last spring (TIME, April 16) for dashing off before season's end to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick: "I ... appreciate that you had no other alternative . . . Should you be willing to consider my reinstatement . . . your trust...
When Weissberg was obstinate, the G.P.U. shoveled him into "The Conveyer" -their nonstop interrogation belt which took innocent men in at one end and turned them out at the other as finished traitors, ready to be driven away to Siberia. They sat him on a plain stool while relays of examiners interrogated him day & night until his head was splitting and his splayed buttocks a mass of burning pulp. After a week of this, Weissberg "confessed"-a ticklish job, because his "crimes" had to dovetail exactly both into the "confessions" of his "accomplices" (i.e., his arrested friends who had incriminated...
...work but of fear of being named by their prisoners. Weissberg estimates (on good statistical grounds) that with this sort of thing happening all over the U.S.S.R., the total of purge prisoners could not have been less than 9,000,000. Most of them went to forced labor in Siberia-not because the labor camps needed them, but simply because there was nowhere else to put them...
Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...