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Vy ae a7. aay. aa 211 these mtters, however, failed to concern the sate whea, through | - 4, _ the offorte of the British sclicitor, FP, Graham Mav, the preeeoutien ~- . chese to drop the charge of informing the enomy and change it to... we - Qlaroeny cf confidential documnte". Eont's Londen attorney declared *«. :->. “The verdict was ono of expodiency and uncer outs ide instruction, * - ov a - a » T¥ler Xent was sentenced to seven years’ social Sanriscomsnt at ph. OP m An. Wt peared S, Waoteverth Penitentiary. fhis means cned with erininals Loe ; Fathor than as a peiitical A trie After a hunger strike which - - onéu¢ in a hospital oll, he vas ited & member of United States .. . : . Eotossy, in London, and shortly aftervard neferred to an old monastery. _ [. Whod ab a political iach cn Isle of Vight, where be was imown te be me _: up te Beptember 23 . One- 6 and twenty other political prisone . 2 _ OFS, including Adnires Deaville, a retired British A¢airel, end rage tthe? prominent anti-Churchill Britishers were there imprisoned wi hin, -*. Abcut a year after Tyler Kent was sentenced, some details cf this 7 & wtonts case began to leak out. Kent's father, @ veteran ef. 7's. Q. the Spanish-American Var, had served “twenty are the Jnited “." .. . _ States Consular Service; his mcther (mre, aon PoWent, of 2112 Wyaning “Avonus, NH. V., Washington, D, Cc.) widowed, Grow a War Departuent pension, * “tr 4 Phe son, Tyler Kent, entered the State Departaont Service us a clerk -+ a _ ead bad a record for brilliant servics. fhe mcthor vas wecustonsd to 1... F 3 ocrmnmicating with her scn during vartime tircugh the State Department “<5. ¥ wail tog. Mot until three weeks after Kent's arrost did his acother imov, ..,. |. , &on the State Departnent, even the fact tint communtcation with har son «4 Yad oceaped, and thon all details wore refusod ber. Later Mre. Kent. -. “held learned thrcugh tho British Embassy in Washington, ‘D. Co, that the serie 2 )ra5 cushess of the esse arceo from the fact that it involved Winston Ciag- “Aw: chill Bimself, fhe appeals to the State Department for informatica ce iE | Ber son's cose brought mcetiy rade rebuffs to this fine American acther 82° cf nore thon sixty years of age, who bad, with her husband, eprwed her . 3°10 cluntry in many foreign innés. Assistant Secretary of State Breckenridge (9) 4 Leng finally received srs, Kent,. when shs refused to leave the State De- + a ar ee =! " partmont without seo Scasone, Me subjected her to a torrent cf angry :* , Wwerms and soncluded: hen the British are through vith your Son, we X will prosecute him to the limit of the los.” ts. Kent asked: "Prose- ies * cute fcr vhat, Mr. Long?” The Assistant Secretary of State web we. __ adlo te say “for what," oC “ op ; Paya oF ~.+ ay All that Tylor Kent and his acther ~- and 52) interested Amricans-:° J 'sek de tmt the young Exboasy clork be brought and property. 7 a, charged and tried T American lav. ce fe es hoa ar - . - . we. 7 co i“ +m ete . Bee = Want tae teen 6444 2h Aubossador Keunedy fenrett 4 _ t . . ‘ ARLAMES fens gre } ‘ py Tiiz dent bes Den tote the immediately his ieproper act in turning 2 . Pelease cn céndition that young Kent would -take cath that ' povor divulgo the sontents of certain sablegram eoded and Gecoded. through the provicus winter, Kent soid he refused the "bribe". . - <>" "py" Yo Maz, 19A1, adout efx mcnthe after the sentencig of Kent, the ~'? ne Firat intimations reached Nre. Kent that thore had been secret | . “~ (©. . eables between Vinsten Church!1? and Franklin D.Rocsevels | dn Fiteh ’ .Bylet Kent was a factcr. ‘These intimticons vere givon to. Mrs. Een reps Rcbert Soctt, a sowspapermn formerly assceiatod with thd WASHINGTON PT -. | aod pew a efreulation mn on th PITTSBURGH » &c acid, dnef-" |. foct: that thd cables Ind treatod Of the conduct of ths war, Anoludcing pions fcr Anglc-American cocporation, and specifically, the Lend Lease ’ fermula. He alsc said that premises of full suppert c British propagan- fs sorvices woro assured fcr Mr. Roosevolt's third tern campaign as acen ae Winston Churchill should supersodc Prime Minister Chanberlain in cffioc. i” Mr. Sectt Smplied that London and Washingten rope nerally ac- a, ‘cuptec the truth ef the stcries (this wae in May, 1941), bot fear of e:Gsoquences provented attaching tha information to its true scurce, ” -In July, 1941, Mrs, Kent sent a young min by the name of Otis ¢, J op einge, 3 former clasamate of her son an¢ = ppblic relations expert, tc miko what inguirieos he could Prom the British Embassy as tz: tho -xittenes and nature ef Sllegod surreptitious eoded cables botweon Chur- , §ti.1 ani Rocsovelt which sho suspected were connected with tho impriscn- int cf her son. Mr, Winge states that in the course of casual converse | paticn with Mr. John J, Foater, First Secretary cf. tho Embassy and Mr. | >: cn atm TTS