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io: H ee ET OU 8 + E - Fowill 4411 at at once by denying tt." j rn j ‘ae There has been much vhispering in both the Administration and anti- rn | }S, administration ofroles that thé Russian Secret Police bas copies [testes Kent'a photostatic copies of the cables, or at least has their . . 1 . . 4 Ay \ t Jos Before Kent's transfer from Moscow to London he ‘had been reproved by Russian authorities for his criticism of Soviet methods and Commoisn, - anf vas a man who caturelly would have been under surveillance by the Soviet Secret Service in England. : : ye! : | Shs friends of Tyler Kent suggest that the Russian Secret Service might have procured the Churchill-Rosevelt cables either photostatically or textually by entering Kent's rocn during his absence. It is also pos- sible that Ruseian spies procured the cables in the English court room e om demind of the barrister, the cables wero exhibited, -_ eh mK a But the manner fin vhich the Soriet Government gained posession of the cables is immaterial. The fact of such possession has been substan- tiated by Colonel A. O. MoGuire, an attorney, Southern Building, Washing- ton, D. C. It puts the Soviet Government ine position to wee the im- proper interchange betweon the now head of the British Government and ; the President of the United States in such manner and at such tim as |, might best auit tho policy of Moscow, Wideapread rumor hes 4t that . * talin used poesesaion of these cables at Teheran to blackmail Roosevelt jinte consenting to the Soviot abeorption of Finland and \othor smil uropean states. ‘Ian Ross MacFarlane returned to America by plane in September, 1943, 1 7 landing in Newfoundland and continuing to Now York by bogt. With - him on pjane and boat was a free-lanco writer, John Bryan\Qwen, . usually known as John“Bryan, grandson of William Jenningesgryan and son _ ‘of our Minister to Denmark, Ruth Bryan Rhode. John Bryan had interested ‘himself strongly in the Kent Case and the position of the Right Club men- ‘ bers in England, and had openly criticized both the British and American : govornments. He bad been imprisoned for six months in London and relens- od just in time to return on the plane with MacFarlane. He had been ex- pallod from England with ten shillings and it was Mre. Kent's money, fur- nished by MacFarlane, which brought him beck to the United States. Ho * |. took a room in Greenwich Village, New York City, and began discussing | . j tho Kent Case froely and vith vehezence. On January 2, 1944, he was, - found dead in his room, The circumstances, as placed in the police re- . eords of the New York City Police, Fomin contradictory and mysterious, . Sinco this incident -- or accident -- MacFarlane has indicatet a desire to disassociate himself from tho case, or mention of the case, giving ‘as his reason a fear for the personal safety of Tyler Kent. During tho veek of July 4, 1944, Mra. Kent received a lotter fron England transmitting informtion that her barriater, Mr. Wav, being -a- ware that British authorities might be considering the release of Tyler Kent from prison, had applied for a cancellation of the deportation or- der vhich has stood over Kent's hoad since his deprisonment, Wr. Mav stated his belief that it would be unwise for Kent, for reasons of boai- iy safety, to re-enter American jurisdiction or leave British jurisdic- _ tion until the government in the United States becoms more fr analy to- ward his oliant, . foo. . j The details of this extraordinary sffoir in real life vere whiaper- 15 ed too larger and larger number of persons in the nevspaper vorld, ° in Congress, and other circles, They remined unknown to the larg-- . er Amorican and British publics until guns 15, i944, when queetioning ané ‘debate broke out in the British Mouse of Commons ooncerning the right of . |, the Government to continuc the imprisotimnt for rour years without trial } of & membor of tho British Parliamect, namoly, Captain Archibald Ramoay. ' he Sam monbers of Parliament, who had raised the question on the sam . floor back on November 11, 1941, participated. This time there was a . . much greater rosponse, Additions] menbere from the three pertios on the . floor of the House of Commons -- Laborite, Conservative and Liberal -. aa all participated. The same Home Minister, Herbert \Worrison, was question- ' #4 a8 to whether or not he was exceeding authority in continuing to .. . Goprive Captain Ramsay of the privilege of representing his constituency. - .. dn Parliament and to deprive t constituency of ite representation . — . .. ‘morely to cover an exchange of correspondence between the now head of |. the British Empire and the head of a Foreign atate, which, however ir- _ .° > Yogular at the tims, could no 1 r be interpreted cs having to be sup- . pressed in the interesta of Britain's war effort. . a nee eyot IH