"Brain-Washing”
Sir,—l shall not attempt to justify the .actions of the French in Devil’s Island, etc.—for there is no justification—but that does not alter the fact that “brainwashing” is devilish. Let “Colonel Prigg” consider what a public scandal it would be if the police in New Zealand were to subject to physical and mental torture certain persons whose minds would be so clouded that they would “confess” to falsified charges _and be executed. But that is normal in Communist countries, especially China. How, then, can “Colonel Prigg” uphold such utterly bestial and criminal activities? The Reds seized the idea of “brain-washing” after experiments of a certain Ivan Pavlov, which proved that the human mind can be controlled, after certain methods have been applied, to the ends of such unscrupulous and evil men as the Communists. —Yours, etc., A.M. April 23, 1957. [“Red Light” may briefly reply; otherwise this correspondence is closed. —Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 3
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