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To the reporters in Vienna last week Vogeler said: "I can't believe I'm here. I'm afraid to wake up." Then he spoke, hesitantly, of the thing that seemed to be uppermost in his mind-the confession of espionage he had made in court (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: It Could Happen to Anybody | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

With Some It Takes Longer. Did Vogeler want to repudiate his confession at the trial? Vogeler slowly crushed his cigarette in an ashtray. Said he: "There was some truth in it." But he added: "It is just a question of time before you confess. With some it takes a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: It Could Happen to Anybody | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

While the defendants were still awaiting trial, said Jackson, one local newspaper (the Orlando Sentinel-circ. 29,349) published a cartoon picturing vacant electric chairs. The caption: "No Compromise-Supreme Penalty." As mob violence swept the county, headlines appeared which Jackson thought inflammatory. Examples: the Sentinel's FLAMES FROM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free Press & Fair Trial | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

U.S. officials believed Bach-Zelewski's story to be correct. They did not plan to prosecute him, however, since the only evidence against him was his own confession.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Goring Died | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Escape from a Dungeon. World Within World is interesting as an eyewitness appraisal of the high place that has been granted to guilt by intellectuals of the last decades. But its main lesson is that nothing can be more misleading than a "truthful" book written by an author to whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humble Pie | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

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