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There was in Wallace that sense of terrible suffering, without understanding. He was having to suffer for something he hadn't done, could never have conceived of doing, and that arose out of a total unreasonableness. He had no chance to reply, no counsel, no anything. It was a kind of mob judgment that was being pushed over on him. His suffering was intense. There was no outlet for it. There was nothing to do. He had to just sit there and take it. I remember feeling at the time that his face showed suffering, acceptance, and still courage, although courage usually implies the courage to take an action and there was no action that could be taken. So he had to have courage and at the same time be resigned, patient and not do anything. To do anything would have been fatal. There was nothing that he could do. He just had to take it. It was a dreadful kind of an experience.

I don't pretend to know what went on inside of his own mind, but I know what went on inside of mine. It just seemed as though you were observing the torture of an individual who was bearing his torture. I remember that his mouth was half open, in that unbelieving half-openess. I'm sure that men who have been under this interrogation that they now call “brainwashing” must





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