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OF MYSTERY STILL AROUND TROTSKY KILLER
Moxico City, August 20.-
The 10 years since Leon Trotsky was assassinated still leave the veil of
mystery around his cryptic killer.
police,
Jacques Mornard, if that is his name, is serving a 20-year sentence for the crime. But police are not sure of his name, of his nationality, of the source of the money which lets him live in a comfortable suite of cells in the federal penitentiary. They have not even established definitely a motive for the killing.
Mornard, now 40, says he was by the disillusioned with Trotsky that is why he chopped at the old Russian Bolshevik's skull Later with a mountaineer's xe. be said he killed in self-defence. But the 60-year-old Trotsky nic before he died that Mornard wan an agent of Stalin, of the OGPU. He had predicted when he sought refuge in Mexico that Sovlet sceret police would try to kill him.
Russian secret and then known as the OGPU. Mornard's denial
Trotsky, exiled from Russia after he broke with Stalin, took refuge here. His Fourth Inter-
nationale, anti-Statin Commun ism, attracted adherents. Enemies
by his lawyer, and writes a good deal. Prison officials say they do not know what he writes, or what happens to the manuscript. Mornard is eligible this month for a presidential pardon avall- able to prisoners whose conduct
sentence throughout their
od. This may be given been 'good.
a
and
has
sentence
S. Koreans not to stop fighting
Warner, New Hampshire,
August 19.
A Korean diplomat sald to- after half sentence has been served,
Mornard's
night that the way his country- counts from
from the day of his or- men risked their lives to escape rest. After another five years Russian occupation proved that three-fourths of his sentence-he they never would surrender to will be eligible for parole,
Communism. There has been nothing to in- Mornard denied this, but told
Pyo Wook Han, First Secretary He had dicate he will be released within at the Korean Embassy in Wash- variety of stories. Elved in Mexico City under the the next five years or even, in Ington, said the United Nations
He view of what may await him out- forces Jackson.
now fighting to save his of Frank
need never doubt gavo no evidence that this was side the gaol, that he wants to homeland
South Korea's determination to ble real name. Then he changed be released.-Associated Press,
fight the Communists to the end. his story. He taid he wat
Han fold a meeting of the In- Jacques Mornard, born in Iran,
stitute of Foreign Affairs here the son of a Belgian diplomat.
that
the powerful Communist But Belgian diplomats who
propaganda falled in the Korean talked to
Bald him
Republic because the people of French.
Koren are
are basically freedom-lov-
name
ho
Is
tried to kill him. He lived At one time pollee said he had
Crack rented from koff, a Russian member of + the Mexican Bninter Diego band of immigrant smugglers
through machine GUIL attack been identified as Salvador Tor-
on the house
he
Rivera,
of his secretary- which operated in San Antonio, guards was abducted and killed Texas.
Mornard had professed great A panel of psychiatrists, after admiration for Trotsky.
Slump in Jap real estates
of
Tokyo, August 19. An increasing. 'number On the questioning Mornard for a week,
arc bein afternoon of August 20, 1940, turned in a 1.332-page report to houses in Tokyo Mornard obtained an interview the court, It said he had offered for sale by "panicky" with the old man, He said he mental fixation compelling him Japanese who hope to find safer wanted show bim a
to
manu- to strike other persona, was bad-accommodation in the suburbs
normal, A few minutes later the ly educated, otherwise script.
or in the nearby countryside. armed "secretaries" heard a but not intelligent. scuffie.
The man has given no evidence but there are no takers.
The Kyodo news agency, re- Trotsky, blood streaming down that Mornard is his real name.
porting the findings of an of his fnec, stumbled out of his But police have not
not been able to
ficial survey, said that the real office. Behind him was Mornard, disprove his story. Nor do they estate business in Japan was suf- the
mountain axe he had brought know where he gets the money fering a slump. with him ander his coat.
which he has spent freely dur Trotsky died next day in hos- ing the last 10 years. Mornard pital, But before his death he draws it from a bank account whispered to his lawyer that through his lawyer. Mornard Mcrnard most likely was sent, says he established the account
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tary all the time. Finally
A real estate broker who until June used to handle one hundred or more transactions a month, said that his business had been reduced, to nil since the Korean when he first came to Mexico. war started, Kyodo reported.
His trial continued for three While the house-selling bus!- years, Mornard in the peniten-ness is undergoing a slump, the on Japanese Cabinet has resolved April 16,
16, 1943, he was sentenced upon a stern policy to combat to 10-14 years for the assault profiteering - especially among and six months for carrying a unscrupulous textile dealers. pistol, which he did not use.
Mornard- told his self-defence story of the killing during the trial. He said when he showed due to speculative buying and the hoarding by operators taking ad- his manuscript 'to Trotsky, CD-founder of the Soviet ente i vantage of the war.
state
At a special Cabinet meeting it was pointed out that the recent rise in the, price of textiles was
ac-
It was urged that such tivities must be vigorously
told him he did not know how to write. Mornard said he was angered and grabbed Trotsky's brought under control.
siceve
Then, he said, Trotsky
bit his hand and tried to draw
u pistol,
At that point, Mornard sald,
he hit the old
ne me
man with
the
a letter
mountain axc. But
found in his pocket when he was
arrested
follower
been said he had
A and of Trotsky
was disillusioned when he knew the man better.
police, not
Incilned
Mexican to overlook the possibility that the killing was a political as- sassination, took no chances with Mornard's safety.
Special suita
Prices up
The price of daily
food nities—especially
neces-
and clothing, have gone up in the one and a half months follow- ing the outbreak of the Korean rice in confilct. The price of Japan has risen from $120 yen for one "aho" at the outbreak of the war to as high w 230 yen in Kobe and Osaka nt the present date. The official coil- Jng price la-02 yon and 30 sen.
Prices of clothing materials also jumped at the same time, but in this case the lack of pur chasing power and the recent government announcement of a
increase cells planned
of clothing In rubstantial quan- materials
down titles have sent prices
ogoln--Reuter.
In the penitentiary he has been given a special suite of where he never comes in contact with the rest of the
prison
DO pulation. He has a private bed- room, a connecting sitting, room AL- and a small private patio. though he speaks English, French and Spanish, other prisoners in this cell block, reserved for im- portant or well-to-do prisoners, them. he does Bay
not talk to
Even
the guards say they seldom
him. He never walks in
the rose garden surrounding the
ing
One of the greatest mass migrations of modern history testified to this fact when South
Korea was liberated by the American milltary forces...Our population of 30,000,000 was ap proximately 20,000,000 South of the 30th parallel and 10,000,000 North of it."
Han said Russla lost no time in "enslaving our, Northern country- Yet soon after the Russian men.
began
than occupation
North
fled 2,000,000 their homes and made their way
more Koreans
at the risk of their lives to free- dom and democracy already in- stituted by the South Koreans and their American Ilberators.”
United Press.
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