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0-19 (Rev. 4 4-11-60) a _people that Roosevelt and Churchill were carrying As Pegler Sees It: Fhe Strange Case Oi Tyler Kent ' By WESTBROOK PEGLER PIRITISH LAW and the vaunted British justice As Were nullified in 1940 for the benefit of Franklin D. Rooseveli and Winston Churchill so that Tyler Kent, a patriotic clerk in the American Embassy, could be sent to prison and thus muzzled for seven years, By the time he gat out Roosevelt was dead and d a conspiracy of silence by the “court historians” in both countries had set in. It is still in force. Kent was tried in the Central Criminal Court in Old Bailey in Oc- tober, 1940. Admittediy he pilfered Embassy documents of no money value all of which had been returned except some which were In his squalid liv- ing quarters when a raid occurred. 1B bs He insisted that he had a patriotie PEGLEE ‘duty to communicate information out of these documents to members of the U.S. Congress and thus, to warn the American on secret correspondence., p Ambassador Josepn “Kennedy had quit the job; f ‘py the time Kent went td trial He had professed to oppose our embroilment in war and the crooked’ wschemes called Lend-Lease. For a long time Kennedy “got credit for moral courage in quitting in protest against Lend-Lease. But it is not clear that this was why he quit. And he certainly threw Kent to the wolves Jn circumstances which muzzled the only one who tried to alarm public opinion at home. Although Kent was entitled to diplomatic im- munity, Kennedy disowned him and the British court and the British equivalent of our Department of Justice gave him the works in a trial more secret than open. The text of the messages between Roose- velt and Churchill never was entered on the court record. There were 500 of these in the Kent case, but Churchill admits that there were more than 3,000. Most of them-—written prior to May, 1940-~were an outrageous violation of law and protocol between nations because Churchill was not the head of the British Government at the time. Thus Roosevelt was really undermining the official British Government to make a stealthy deal looking to the day when Churchill would become Prime Minister. Married and Vanished After the second war, Kent came hamte, matried a wealthy woman and vanished. Kennedy then tried to discourage discussion of the Kent case and his own negative part In it by insinuating that there was something-“wrong" with Kent's morals. But Kent was never ob charzed and thus had no chance to face —_—_—s QWs . ai teenser and vindicate himself, Mohr —>y . p Parsons roth’ NOT RECORDED Tolson Belmont/,i*" Callahan ach Malone McGuire Rosen Tamm Tro T 1 __ Tele. Room Ingram Gandy JAP ie / ay 43 ( cs NY y an f pao The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror _———__-~—__..__——_— New York Daily News New York Post _—___—_- The New York Times The Worker ___.____—__-__--——" The New Leader ——_—__——- The Wall Street Journal] —.__—_— “BE - 3 yo a i ey + ae _ ~ ee generar Se Sen