WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
EMBASSY CLERK. /
WASHINGTON, September 11
Counsel for Mrs. Ann Kent, mother of Tyler Kent, a former attache to. the United States Embassy at London (who was imprisoned in Britain, following evidence of his securing confidential documents and leakage of information to the enemy), has filed a motion for a writ of mandamus, requiring President Roosevelt to demand the release of Tyler Kent. Counsel said that if a writ were granted, and the demand were unreasonably delayed, the President would be'required personally to make Kent’s conviction by a British court legal. Mrs. Kent told reporters that she had been in constant communication with her son since -his imprisonment. He told her that he believed that a smear campaign had been carried on against him by State Department officials, and that it was launched because they fear the facts.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 September 1944, Page 5
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