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Fleet Street has not forgotten how heavy fines running up to $2,500 each were exacted from some of London's principal newspapers for their reporting of the incident in which figured an herbalist named George Andrew McMahon, his revolver and King Edward (TIME, July 27). The nature of this incident as ultimately aired in court was something upon which Fleet Street found it financially safer not to comment last week. Almost alone was the Chicago Tribune in sending its Correspondent David Darrah to report what the herbalist's lawyer Alfred Kerstein had to say as he moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...lower court McMahon related that in 1935 "a member of a political body in England'' introduced him to agents of a foreign government who offered him employment as a spy and later took him to "a certain baron" whose name the prisoner wrote on a piece of paper and passed to the judge. This baron was a member of the Embassy staff of the foreign power in London, and McMahon offered to describe in detail the room in which they met. Upshot was an offer to McMahon, so he said, of $750 to shoot King Edward. Snapped horrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...fact only slithered his revolver under the hoofs of the King's horse, asked the jury to have him imprisoned for a long term as only in jail would he be safe from vengeance by the foreign agents he had betrayed. In ten minutes the jury found McMahon guilty of "unlawfully and willfully presenting near the person of the King a pistol with intent to alarm His Majesty," and the judge sentenced him to one year in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Said Lawyer Kerstein: "Our appeal will probably be based on the ground that the judge misdirected the jury." Indicating that in his opinion Hon. Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord had charged in such a way that the jury thought McMahon had suddenly made up and told in court for the first time a fantastic story, Lawyer Kerstein declared, "McMahon had 'told the same story to the War Office and to the police months ago. . . . Military intelligence officers had details of the main part of the plot and verified many of McMahon's statements. . . . The foreign power concerned is Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Since many Germans presume Edward VIII to be pro-German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plot, Press & People | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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