Betrayal Glorified: The Story ot Tyler Kent
Kellman, George
ALERT! Dedicated to an expose of all totalitarians... enemies of democracy. Eternal vigilance remains the price of liberty Betrayal Glorified: The Story ot Tyler Kent By George Kellman TYLER...
...Here's what Ambassador Kennedy tells us: "Some place along tbe line, however, Kent seems to have built up a terrific anti-Semitic complei, snd I am convinced that this attitude was the driving power for his behavior in London...
...His disgraceful story epitomizes the danger against which our citizens must ever be on guard...
...American embassies snd legations all over the world were hamstrung in their communications with Washington at the critical time of the tsU of France...
...Russia not being then at war, and that Stalin had used them so thst he could "blackmail" Roosevelt and Churchill at Teheran into handing Europe over to Russia...
...Who are some of his stslwart defenders...
...Washington countered with energetic measures to get control of uranium deposits in other parts of the world...
...The Ambassador was further advised that Tyler Gatewood Kent, code-clerk of ear Embassy, wss under suspicion...
...Ambassador Kennedy is quoted ss remarking: "If we had been st war, I wouldn't hsve fsvored turning Kent over te Scotland Yard, or have sanctioned his imprisonment in England...
...We may assess the tone of this paper from its October 20, 1945, issue...
...Eternal vigilance remains the price of liberty Betrayal Glorified: The Story ot Tyler Kent By George Kellman TYLER KENT will soon be home...
...There are ugly rumors that the 1,500 messages Kent is accused of having copied . . . contained evidence that Roosevelt schemed to involve the United States into the European war...
...A. H. M. Ramsay was imprisoned, and has since been re-ktased...
...This publication, besides plugging the Tyler Kent line, also advertises ,-iuh literary tidbits as Jtwith Rituml M,ude...
...i would have recommended that he be brought back to the United States and shot...
...In its editorial, it exclaims: "Democrscy...
...Shocked by the contents of the messages, he fearlessly and patriotically made the contents known in order to "save" America, regardless of the consequences to himself...
...The Italian Embassy wanted to speak to Mr...
...With time off for good behavior, he Is Scheduled to be released very shortly...
...Dsring the esrly pert nf 1940, barely , (Math before Britain was left to stand lbs* against the Nazi avalanche, Joseph P. Kennsry, our Ambassador in London, iu visited by an official of Scotland Yard He advised Kennedy that a leak dieted in the diplomatic correspondence between America and England...
...I asked him how on earth he could break trust - ith his country...
...he complained of the "Jewish persecution" which he claims cost him his job...
...Kister introduced George Dilling, husband of Elizabeth Dilling, as his attorney...
...Ever the businessman, a leaflet of his announces that he will give a copy of the statement of Kent's mother "free" with each subscription or renewal for his magazine, The Crott and the flag...
...However, the State Depsrtment reveals that Kent had applied for a transfer to our embassy at Berlin...
...Aim Kwgtand had entered the war, Kritisa eaVriaU were furnishing President Reoserelt through the I nil..I States Embasay complete details on EagUasfs basic strategy, the location *f all of her land, sea and air forces, sad the complete picture of England's weefal aapreparedness...
...Sometimes it is claimed that Kent had copied the messages, intending to return with them to the United States, so that he could disclose their contents to responsible authorities here, and that he had confidentially shown them to Ramsay, whom he considered "Churchill's most sctive enemy in Psrliament...
...His father before him had had a distinguished diplomatic career...
...Upton Close, in his newsletter of October 22, 1945, sums up tbe situation ss follows: A recent public arrival in the Tyler Kent under protection of Congress and learn his story of what passed between Roosevelt and Churchill be...
...KeNT we* convicted of violating the British Official Secrets Act before an English Court in October, 1940...
...Kent Keat was using the diplomatic pouch ef the Italian Embassy in London to get his messages to Berlin...
...Aasbassador Kennedy then waived diplomatic immunity exempting Kent from British jurisdiction, and on May 20, 1M0, in the presence of an Embassy attache, a search of Kent's spartment was made...
...fore this nation had been sold on war____" " ¦' A recent public arrival to the Tyler Kent camp is Merwin K. Hart, whose Economic Council Letter for October, 1945, stirs up the mess in standard fashion...
...Ann* Wolkoff was convicted, and received a ten-year term...
...To bell with democracy...
...What led Tyler Kent to this shocking act of beterayalT He came from an old American family of excellent background, and was educated at Princeton and the Sorbonne...
...Tht Kingdom Digetl, published by J. A. Lovell, a leading anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic of Los Angeles (and a Gerald Smith supporter) escribes Kent's impending release to the "power ef prayer" in this November's Issue...
...Dilling was present alto, and told ths meeting thst in her next bulletin shs will "give proof that Franklin D. Roosevelt wss ths biggest murderer In th* history of our country...
...Russia may have known about American plans for atomic bombs even before building was started on the factories for their production...
...Another variation of their story is that actually the messages fell into the hands of Stalin (via Berlin...
...Ilk* Kister, is a Gerald Smith "front," and is the head of th* Nationslist Veterans of World War IL Vote, while a soldi...
...Vsn Hyning used to address Bund meetings prior to Pearl Harbor...
...Thus we see in Tyler Kent a graphie example of the betrayal of America by rac;al hatred...
...The current angle of Kent's protagonists is to issue heavyhanded hint* of possible "dirty doings at the cross-roads" to silence Kent...
...Gerald Smith was quick to hop onto the Kent bandwagon...
...In addition, the trails of Kent and Anna Wolkoff converged at a photographic studio in I on aeaJMstre Wolkoff had left two of tha eaeemkj messages...
...Copies of more than 1,500 EsaWssy communications and papers warn found...
...should K He sense time idolise and tout a fonricted betrayer of our country's aaasjfcs ss a "martyr"or as an enatx Br»t Weasel of their very own...
...Three years ago the Soviet Government bought controlling interests in Canadian mining companies producing uranium...
...While the search was going on, the telephone rang...
...A total American diplomatic blackout ensued, while: a* new "unbreakable" code *** being devised...
...and sentenced to aeven years" imprisonment...
...The X-Ray, published by Court Asher of Muncie, Ind., is also sympathetic...
...Thus, Gerald Smith's newsletter of Oct...
...Kennedy stated in the Sen- York Wml<l Telegram of September 5, 1944: "Week by'week these [facts] were forwarded to President Roosevelt in the unbreakable' code...
...Kent . . . ha* received seme very peeulisr wsraing* about the basard of her eon-returning...
...It would be very simple thing to throw him overboard some dark night and report it ss suicide...
...Young Kent, then 29 years old, had been seen by the authorities in the frequent company ay Anna Wolkoff, a white Russian emigre, who wss suspected of being a German ¦gent Kent hsd also been seen in the company of A. H, M. Ramsay, Member ef Parliament, who was suspected of engaging in subversive activity...
...Another celebrity present wat George Voae, who...
...The National Record of Senator Reynolds' now defunct Nationalist Party, in its issue of last September, carried a reprint of an article on the subject by John O'Donnell, columnist of the New York Daily Newt and Wathinylon Timet-llemld...
...O'Donnell, it will be remembered, was recently forced to publicly admit writing some anti-Semitic falsehoods...
...Sanctuary, and other defendants at the Washington Sedition Conspiracy Trial...
...This line is often varied...
...There are many other adherents of the Kent cult, such as Elizabeth Dilling, Col...
...An unauthorised duplicate sst of keys to the code-room and the in-4ex room was also discovered...
...And now Tyler Kent will soon be home...
...Kent never batted an eye...
...We had lo aasaam that week by week this saaie data went to Berlin by way of Kent, who decoded each message as it passed through hia hands...
...t I* not too paradoxical that the cohorts if bigotry and reaction, vtfls screaming "America First...
...The sreh conspirators of this generation will stop st nothing to silence or render ineffective the report of this young Araericsn who Isngaished so long in prison...
...5, 1945, let* us know that: "Mrs...
...The West End Women's Club, 37 S. Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, was regaled with an address by Frederick Kister on September 5. Kister is suing Marshall Field and the Chicnoo Swn for ,100,000 for "defamation of character...
...Consistency is hardly the virtue of our native reactionaries...
...He played up and down the scale of an intense anti-Semitic feeling, showing no remorse whatever, except in respect to his parents...
...British agents found thees^ljsdured to microfilm by an cm plejptj Vm was a member of the German ¦Tf-nW...
...Then there is The Women't I'oice, published by I.yil Van Hyning's notorious "We, the Mothers...
...7'y/er Kent'* duplicity hat been ylori-fit A into a heroic act of patriot it , by hit partitmnt...
...Their propaganda runs substantially as follows: Kent, in the course of hi* work, hsd learned of the "plotting" of Rooeevelt and Churchill to maneuver the United States into the war...
...published by Homer Maerti, a convicted Chicago hoodlum...
Vol. 28 • November 1945 • No. 46
