Word: confessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinking out loud. "I am a child of the mountains . . ." he said. "Sometimes you are on the mountaintops and can see the fields and the sun. Then, often enough, you are in the valley, but you can see the mountaintop. That is enough. I had been told, I must confess, that most Americans are very hard, very businesslike. I have found no hard side. I have found Americans very emotional and sentimental...
...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...
When Tito's minions in 1946 tried and convicted Roman Catholic Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trumped-up treason charges, Stepinac did not confess. Apparently the Kremlin never gave Tito the secret of the "monstrous method." Last week there were rumors that Tito might release Stepinac from prison...
...point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...
...after listening to one bureau confess a mistake, economists and businessmen raised their eyebrows at the Bureau of the Census, whose optimistic employment estimates for August (51,400,000) had set off a hallelujah chorus of hope for a big upturn. The Bureau of the Census coldly replied that it was not in error, pointed out that it uses a different computing method, and that it includes several types of employment not covered...