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...British businessman glumly contemplates ten more years' imprisonment ; in a red brick prison in Malaya, a 25-year-old girl guerrilla leader placidly weaves baskets. A month ago the Communists offered to free Edgar Sanders, who was accused of espionage in Hungary, if the British would free Lee Meng, who was doomed to hang for bearing arms against the British in Malaya's jungles. Since then, the Sultan of Perak commuted Lee Meng's sentence to life imprisonment, and Sanders' wife and three daughters raised their hopes that now he would be returned to them. Last...
...Meng, a young (25), doll-faced Chinese Communist, one of the key leaders of the Red war against the British in Malaya, until she was captured last July and tried for having a hand grenade in her possession, an offense punishable by death. After two trials which caused a stir all the way to London. Lee Meng was convicted and sentenced to death...
...Sanders' wife begged the government to make the trade. But Britain did not want to give the Communists the notion that they could make a deal any time they pleased by tossing a British citizen into jail on trumped-up charges, and it feared the effect of Lee Meng's release in Malaya...
...Meng had become valuable propaganda material for the Reds in Asia by maintaining that she was someone else, a victim of mistaken identity and British injustice. Now the Reds were admitting her complicity by revealing how highly they value her life...
This week in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill refused to consider a trade while Lee Meng's appeal for clemency is being considered. "There can be no question," he said, "of bartering a human life...