Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sympathies go out to Colonel Frank Schwable, who . . . was tortured by the Communists and . . . put on trial in this country for falsely confessing that the U.S. had used germ warfare on the Chinese Communists [TIME, March 22] ... As for the value of such a confession to the enemy, I have seen no proof that it cost us any lives, or friends . . . After all, we were the first and, so far, the only nation to drop atom bombs on civilians, so we shouldn't be too squeamish about being charged with germ warfare...
...fought over ideological issues, and future prisoners can expect to be subjected to all sorts of torture ... My son is in the service, and I have told him: if ever captured, confess if you must. Don't give away positions or troop movements, but subjects such as germ warfare and the like are absurd. The facts will be brought to light later regardless of what they make you say about it. You have a gun at your head ... Be practical, and stay alive...
...From Geneticist August Weismann (1834-1914) of Freiburg University, author of the germ-plasm theory of heredity...
...TIME, Sept. 21). The Communists, charged Colonel Mahurin, "continued to press me for several days, even going so far as to have a British newspaperman, Alan Winnington, interrogate me for one whole day." During the Korean war, Winnington freely circulated behind Communist lines, wrote long stories about the "germ warfare" U.N. forces were supposedly carrying on, got lists of U.N. prisoners for publication by Communist newspapers when even the International Red Cross could get no such information. He also angered Far Eastern Commander Matthew...
Questioned on the Secretariat's present position toward the stymied Korean Political Conference, Bunche said "We are now hoping that something will come out of the Geneva conference. The germ of hope in this meeting lies in the fact that this is the first time the major powers concerned in the war have come together for high-level talks. Although the UN itself is not engaged in these talks, the Secretariat is hoping they will prove fruitful...