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4 qe d | “ ‘ ° . : & Tow cays after this extended dobate, Oliver Lyttelton, Minister - 19 cf Wor Production in the British Cabinet, said in a speech that st America Bad provcked the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, This " gtatomont was challenged by Secretary of State Ccrdell Hull, and Mr. wf Lyttelten tempered his statement without denying its sense, == “ , In February, 1944, Mra. Kent had taken a chance and sent her son ' - “79 reprint cf tho Henning article in the Washingtcn, D. C., TIMES~- i +... “*"" HERALD cf Novenber 12, 1941, asking the prison suthcrities tc give : it tc him. They 414 and he acknowledged its receipt. Mre. Kent at once wrcete back asking him to comment on its centents, paying especial atton- - ticn tc paragraph 5 which related, in effect, that Reossvelt and Chur- . } ghill bad planned Lend Leose by eablegram a year before the American — . pocple ever hoard cf it. . . : . ' On May 15, 19454, Mra, Kent received a cable eignod by her aon, . Tyler Kont, f{rcm prison, reading: “Nowspaper story essentially true.” A few days inter she received a lengthy letter from her ecn ecnfirming the criginal stcry abcut the Churchill-Roceevelt cablegrams published | _in-Nevomber, 1942. Beginning June 17, 1944,°the long etcry reached the American press, on the disclosures made in the British Hcuso cf Commons, The most complete stcry camo through tho CHICAGO TRIBUNE Foreign Service, eigned Larry Rue. All cf theso items passed through British censcr- . ship, vhick is centrcllo¢ by the Churchill government, indicating that the Governmort ne Icnger fools cbhligated to ecnecaal the ¢ircumstances of - the interchang: botwoun Churchil? and Receevelt which arranged for the abendcnoment cf its neutrality by the United States. Obviously th: disclcsures of the Keité Case eables can only label Mr. Churchill] as clever, evan theugh irregular and capticus toward a Bupericr. But thoy s-igmtize the President ef the United States sa having prececdee in entire disregard cf the Constitutional prcecedure to which he fs avern by mth cf office. . , + ~., Pho Gisclosures frcr. England en the Kent Case vere. breught out en 724 the flcors cf the United States Sonate and House cf Ropresentatives om tho afterncen of Jina 19, 1944, and cn several successive days, A Gebate botwoon Sonatcr Hen-!k Shipstead, Sonater Ten Cennally, Senatcr Burten K. Wheeler, and a numkr cf ethers over the Kent Caso cceupies several pages in the Congreasiccal Recerd cf June 19. Senatcr Wheeler relatéd that long agc ho had ask-4 Secretary Hull in writing how an Amer- ican Embassy menbor cculd be tric’ in a secret British Court fer stealing papers thst wont thrcugh the Amorican Bobassy. The State Department sent - 4 special representative tc molliry Senatcr Wheeler. The State Depart- . mont‘’sa wish was tc bush up the mtter. Senater Connally, Chairmn of the Foreign Relations Ccomuittes anc Administration Flocr Leader, had to rush tc a telephone to call up the Etate Department te find cut hoy to answer the charges cf Senator Shipstcad. Thereupon, Cenpally olsined that the United States Gevernnent had waived Tylor Kent's diplemtic immunity and that he was thon prosecut.d under British Lav. But Senator Connally cid net make clear the charge, The Connally statement dees net held vwator, fcr Tyler Kent vas sentencec en the charge of stealing ¢cou- ments, which, if stolen at all, were stelen from the AMERICAN EMBASSY in | AMERICAN EMBASSY CODE -~ certainly ne affa r of the British Gevernnent at the tim, Tint Gcvernment would indeed have. srreated Churchill fcr soeretly sending cables without passing them through censorship in var- tine, oablee which went behind the back cf th thon British Gcvernzent, - anc in essence ecnspired. for the downfall cf that Gowernment, There- . fore, the British part in the case is entirely tllegal cr ultra-officiol and tho crine, if any, wos against the American Government only, 2, Kent's trial by 6 British Court therefore r:mains s complete traves- 2? see justice and a theroughly illegal acticn. Consul General wJcho GsNErhardt, ncw Chief cf Foreign Service Personnel in the State De- . partment Th Washington, was the only American observer allowed to be prosent in the Kont trinl. He was placed under oath aot to disclose any dotails of the hoaring, He has known Kent since tho latter's beyhood. _ Ho teld Mrs. Kent, aftor hiz2 return to this sountry, that “Tyler did : ' gething reprohensible, but merely vas unwise in the vay he went about d¢ing \ 4t." Mrs. Kont saw Ambassador Kennedy after hia resignation from bis “1. Londen pest.'’ She askéd him if hor aon Ind been rightiy acoused of being <. & Bpy. He replied that thore was neo basis whatever for that suspicion. - ° WalterSfrchan, CHICAGO TRIBUNE correspondent, states that Kennedy told L- . Ain: an vory much ashamed of the part I pleyed in the Kent Case ~~ | X lost my bead. me a ‘ f ?