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...Marlborough Police Court, London, appeared Sir Basil Thomson, famed British War-time Director of Intelligence, to answer charges of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park (TIME...
...kills his horse driving back to Preobrashensk, and arrives with wolves harnessed to his sled. He meets a rebellious regiment and touches with his whip handle the men to be hanged by their com rades. Before the Cathedral of Saint Basil blood flows from his manifold executions. Other rebels are hanged and sent floating down the Don on rafts...
...hours later the long arm of the British secret service had reached out and seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order...
Last week Sir Basil Thomson, now 64 years of age, was arraigned in a London police court on the incredible charge of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park. The more inflammatory despatches did not hesitate to link mention of the crime of rape with the arrest. Stolid Englishmen were literally aghast at what seemed to be a national scandal...
Late despatches carried Sir Basil's unequivocal denial of the charges lodged against him. His friends assert that he has been "framed" by enemies among his former subordinates at Scotland Yard. His ill-wishers declare that unless the charges against him were true, the case against him would have been instantly dismissed. Meanwhile British Communists rejoiced at the discomfiture of one of their most tireless enemies...