SENTENCE COMMUTED
id al RELEASE OF EARL BROWDER m Washington. May 17. President Roosevelt has commuted the four years’ sentence on Earl Browder, the former general secretary of the American Communist Party, to the time he has already served. The White House, in making the announcement, added that Mr. Roosevelt believed that the commutation would tend to promote national unity, and to allay the feeling which 9- may exist in some minds that an Uns’s usually long sentence on Browder was n " imposed because of his political ie views. The sentence has been comm muted to the time which he has al•ir ready served—l 3 months. -d Earl Browder was sent to prison a on March 27. 1941. af’er being co:i- -- victrd for obtaining a passport by •means of false statements.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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131SENTENCE COMMUTED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 117, 21 May 1942, Page 5
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