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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Josip Tito added his authoritative opinion last week to those who think the Kremlin has a secret method of extracting confessions from its victims. In a speech to the Yugoslav army, Tito said that Laszlo Rajk, former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, had been taken to Moscow after his arrest in June and trained to confess in his treason trial, held in Budapest last month. Said Tito: "They prepared that trial according to some method which they have. You saw that everything went as it should. I do not know how one gets people to try to accuse themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Some Monstrous Method | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...trial was held in the gaily decorated, red marble assembly hall of the metalworkers' union, in which Rajk a matter of months ago used to appear with Rakosi to deliver political speeches. Rajk had been in jail since his arrest in June, but he looked fit. Avidly, he piled self-accusation upon self-accusation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Autobiography | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: War in the Andes | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Benjamin Twaddle | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...saloons and restaurants pinpointed in the Daily News series, until they complied with the laws. But even with the heat on, Mooney and Bird found 32 drunks sprawled on Skid Row in a ten-minute walk. Police Commissioner John Prendergast threw up his hands: "What can we do? Arrest them all? The Bridewell [prison] is full." It looked as if it would take a lot more stories to stir Chicagoans into cleaning up Skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Land of the Living Dead | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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