Word: confession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even today Ignotus refuses to give details of the advanced methods used by the AVO ("These are things I want to forget"), but is ready to talk of the lack-of-sleep technique which "though not a strong enough torture to induce people to confess," has its own terrors. "At a certain point you go to sleep all the same," he says, "even standing with a light glaring in your eyes. It is not a proper sleep, but a kind of half-dreamed nightmare. Hungarian prisoners call it 'the cinema,' and when you say you 'have been...
...reader may recognize a few mildly tentative efforts in this direction in the last few stories in this book. They started out to be satirical; they mostly failed dismally to be satirical; largely, I presume--I often observe it to my dismay and confess it to my shame--because I still have much too soft a corner for the old land. For all I know I may still be a besotted romantic! Some day I may manage to dislike my countrymen sufficiently to satirize them; but I gravely doubt it--curse them...
...Budapest shortly for trial. Two other ministers in Nagy's Cabinet have already been brought back and lodged in Fo Utca Prison, Miss Kethly said, and their trial presumably will provide the backdrop for Nagy's. Said Anna Kethly: "The Prime Minister is under great pressure to confess. A special investigation group was set up by the MVD and the AVH for this reason. Not only secret policemen are members of this special group; it includes psychiatrists, heart and nerve specialists. They believe that under the pressures of their daily tortures the Premier will confess. I am absolutely...
...Communists used torture methods, or rather civilized torture methods, to make their "enemies" confess. The French torture methods on suspect Arabs in Algeria are worse, for they go back to the Middle Ages. There is no excuse for such tactics. France is a so-called Christian country...
...utterly baffled when they are jailed for wrongdoing: "Prison is a treat. They get three square meals a day and interesting work to do." One slide showed a long-legged white bird that had flown aboard his ship on Trafalgar Day. "We called him Horatio," said Philip. "I must confess I still don't know what sort of bird it was.'' At one point he played a record of some pidgin English. "It is a very old language," he explained, "and has to be learned. For instance, they called me 'Fella belong Mrs. Queen...