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...Home Guardsman Harry Foulds was haled before the magistrates of Chatham, Kent, charged with theft from the Crown of a pistol, ammunition and a helmet which he had taken from a bailed-out German airman. Defense Counsel Gerald Thesinger based his case on Rex v. Broom, in the reign of William III, which was based in turn on a case tried during the reign of Henry VIII. These cases upheld the right of any British subject to retain any property he may be able to seize from "the King's enemy." "Therefore," argued Thesinger, "the property was never vested...
...began to turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning of the war. In his apartment they found six suitcases full of stolen or copied Embassy documents, among them a letter from Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt...
With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
Last week, with utmost secrecy, behind windows covered with heavy brown paper, His Majesty's High Court of Justice concluded its trials in London's most famous criminal court, the Old Bailey. Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkov heard themselves sentenced as spies. Kent was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Anna Wolkov received ten years. Britons were surprised at the mildness of the sentences, even though one of the culprits was a citizen of a nation with which Britain wants to keep on the best of terms...
Last fortnight Manhattan's American Artists Group, composed of dozens of top-notchers, put its cards on sale. Prices: 5? to 25?. Artists Harry Wickey, Rockwell Kent and Adolf Dehn began the Christmas card project in 1935. None of the artists made pictures expressly for cards; works were chosen for their reproducibility. But three years ago, as a sop to gum-chewers, the Group added a side line: Christmas cards of conventional kind, designed by professional illustrators. There are now 1,500 cards on the Group list, to which 200 a year are added. The 168 participating artists...