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RONALD TRUE
HOULD Ronald True ever have been found guilty? His death, after 28 years' detention in Broad- moor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, recalls one of the most controversial murtiers of our times.
The reprieve granted by the Home Secretary, the Into Mr. Edward Shortt, raised a storm throughout the country which at moment threatened the con- tinuance in office of Mr Lloyd George's Government.
a
one
Ronald True was a wastrel, a petty thief, a drug addict and inally murderer. He Was arrested on the evening of March 6, 1922, while scaled with a friend in a box at the Ham- mersmith Palace of Varleties.
He was later charged with the murder of Olive Young a young
virtue, with woman of enny
whom he had spent the pre- vious night at her flat in Ful-
ham.
His trial took place before Mr. Justice McCardie at the Old Bailey in May.
The prosecution for the Crown was led by the late Sir Richard Muir, assisted by Mr Eustaco
Fulton. The
prisoner was defended by
the late Sir
Henry Curtis- Bennetl and
Mr Roland
Wastrel, thief. drug addict, and murderer: thla was Renald Truc at the time of Buls trial. Now comes news of his death after 28 years Broadmoor.
in
Were they wrong
to find him guilty?
Oliver, now Mr Justice Oliver.
The fact of the killing was not denied. The only issue before the jury was whether the de- fence could substantiate a plea of insanity.
And in
whether this event True could be enabled to escape the scaffold.
Hitherto the prisoner's Me story had been a squalid one, Since childhood he had
by. Montgomery Hyde, MP
Barrister and author of The Trials of Oscar Wude.
beca ed from doing it and must con- regarded as eccentric. lie had sequently be taken to realise the drified about the world Ilving consequences of his act
his provided by
оп людеу mother.
When in New York he had married an actress who had a child by him. For years he had been addleled to morphla.
Somehow he became an officer In the Royal Flying Corps dur ing World War I. But he never saw any foreign service: he crashed a training aeroplane at Farnborough which gave him sovere concussion of the brain.
INSANE?
There was abundant evidence
was
at the trial to show that Truc
insane. Nevertheless, the] Jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to death.
Verdict and sentence were confirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
tors.
These medical authorities
men were all
impulse which he was by mental disease In substance deprived of any power to resist.
The man who
there late- and why
M
by FRANK OWEN
R. LIAQUAT ALI KHAN, Prime Minister of Paki- stan, was a guest of honour
at the Canada Club Dinner in London last week. He received a wonderful wel-
come.
He
rose to speak, said: "If there is any dispute between any two members of the Commonwealth it is the duty of every other the Common-
member of
wealth to resolve that dis-
pute.. Otherwise, this great institution, with all its splendid potentialitics
survive."
U.S.S.R.
CHIN
R enge
INDIA
W. FAKISTAN
E PAKISTAN
The rivers are now they run."
for peace and good, will not adhere either to the new Do- minion of India or to that of Pakistan.
Thus, Liaquat Ali cast a bomb amid that distinguished com- Dany. He was right to do so, for mighty issues, involving the tranquillity and prosperity of
this entire earth, are at stake,
COAXED...
TIAQUAT ALI hung back for several days from coming
fo Britain to join the Common- wealth Conference, He had to
Kashmir's ruler
was Hindu, but three-quarters of its 4,000,- were Moslems. people ODO Nevertheless, the ruler adhered to India.
got
#
The feud hq taken on rather personal strain becauSO- Pandit Nehru, Prime Mihistor of India, is himself a Kashmiri bom Hindu.
Nehru may talk and think sincerely in shining, lofly fights of the ideals of world citizen- ship. He would be less than a son of Kashmir if he did not desire his romantic native land to be part of his own gespon- sibility.
But West heart of the
Pakistan, the Dominion, is in real truth The Land of the Itivers. "Indus is to Sind what Nile is to Egypt."
The land is fair and fruitful simply, and only, beenuse of the bounty of its waters.
But look! Of the great Five River of the Punjab, Indus, Jhelum Chenab Ravi, and Sutlej the Arst three riso (or flow through) Kashmir. Who con- trols these head-waters holds the life of Pakistan in his fist.
Pakistan (given her rivers) could "live of her own." She
grows almost all of what she
eats, in rice or wheat, and could even spare some carn for In- dia.
DEEPER
as her neighbouring customer Pakia-
BUT without Indin Imagine the effect in Paldi tan would live very poorly. She grows both Jute and cotton too, but it is India's Calcutta and Bombay mills which pro- these pro- cess and fabricate ducts.
stan.
TROOPS
MOVE
broke
be coaxed to make the Empire PROMPTLY trouble
Prime Ministers' party com- plete,
In the end he consented, came here primarily to say to his fellow Premiers what he re- peated to the Canada Club as- sembly: "What are you going to do about Kashmiris
It is a kind of medieval mad- out, Moslem irregulars neg which today mokes poured down from the passes Paldstan impose an export duty upon the mountain capital of on fute and cotton-and makes
India lay a Srinagar.
reprisal tox upon the cotton shirts she sells back to Pakistan.
The mobarajch fled, with a baggago train of treasures. Equally promptly, Indian regu- But the real reason for these Iar troops moved in. Regular superficial follles lies deep. It Pakistan Army forces advanced is the fear of Moslems-and This is a question which the to assert their own occupation there are well-founded and his-
claims. It looked Uke full torically proven British Government,
bases for it in purti-
The scale war.
that the Hindus have not really cular, has so far ducked. buck_was_passed_la_the_United
accepted Partition as final. That Nations, who also have decided
tends to re-absorb Pakistan into somehow come day India in- nothing about it.
a new Hindu Roj,
But now the people of Paki- stan want to know the answer.
Probably two or three thou- sand troops were killed either side,
נס
All
this makes Moscow Add to these the half million
bappy, Any ill-will, suspicion, unarmed
refugees and mistrust that the Farmer in the Kremlin can aow in other
In a word, the issue is: To helpless, which Dominion, Indla or butchered by fanatie mobs of Pakistan,
wild and either faith in the Punjab mas- shall the lovely State of here?
Kashmir ad- sacres at the time of the 1947 men's fields is harvest for him. Partition and you will realise For he reckons that after rufa the river of blood that already even he will be welcome. lay between Moslem and Hindu You
have only to be in Karachi, the great and growing when the Cease-Fire was tardi-
ly arranged, seaport capital of Pakistan, as Ronald True unquestionably was on this New Year's Eve, this category, Mean-to realise the near-war tension while he has at last died a which exists. Real trouble could
happen here.
fell into
natural death.
But the country is still wait-
When
of
In the mood of common sense and comradeship in which the leaders of the Commonwealth have met good men will hope That was just two years ago that these two great sons of Ever since, the brave, battic- India will both trained troops of India and and deal fairly with each other, speak frankly Pakistan some of the finest
and each other's people. fighting men in Asta, have been glowering across the wire nt each other.
ing for the necessary Parlia-India was partitioned in August
the sub-continent mentary legislation to bring 1947 Lord Birkenhead's wise recom-ly, where large and contiguous was agreed that, brand- mnendation into effect.
areas of population were Hindu Ten *Divisions of or Moslem in faith they should troops!
-(London Express Service)
veteran
There is no other way, and- let us say it again--not a mo- mens to be lost.
(London Express Service).
GERMANY'S GENERALS HURRY INTO PRINT
(ERMANY'S out-of-work
G generals have gone into
By ANTONY PERRY
Eight weak Italian divisions number of French divisions is and three brigades of Alpine to be raised to nine or 10 by troops (which cannot be used 1952, and that Britain is to in- elsewhere but in the Alps.)
crease the number of hers to five or Bix. But попо 01 Soven French divisions and these troops can reach the one Belgian division in Central Continent before the spring of
1851." Europe.
Depressing his readers One Danish and one Nor- further, Guderian tells wegian division in Scandinavia. that Wertern Europeang ara totally unsuited to war against Guderian comments:
"This Russia,
them
Then the Home Secretary the book business. With stepped in. By the Criminal Teutonic thoroughness they Lunatics Act, 1884, Mr Shorttare setting out to tell the was bound to order an inquiry world: "You want the best by a commission of three doc-generals-we have them."
On thousands of book about the military strength Ha person commits an offence
on mental discase, stalls rearmament-minded At last a German general, of the Atlantic Pact Powers, when he is in an insane condi and they unanimously endorsed Germans are being offered tion the verdict of the jury must the expert evidence given at the
a German expert, is speak- makes 18 weak, poorly-equipped be that he is "guilty but insane."
"General Staff reminis- ing to us. He created the. divisions of European origin on “CANNOT TAKE IT" Unfortunately the law is not trial, thus fluxding that True was
"front - line cences,"
German panzer weapons. the Continent. collections" "strategic con- He was chief of the Ger- most clear as 10
This being so, the Home ceptions," "plans for Euro man Army General Staff. Europe, has only eight divisions. take it," he says. "They have legal insanity.
"Psychologically they cannot Secretary had no alternative penn
defence," personal It was here that the judge under the statute but to order a build-ups, about themselves His remarks are soberly It hardly needs saying that this no idea what the mud of a be defended with Hussian autumn and spring, or by Hitler's ex-General Staff realistic, clear, exact and area connot
the cold of a Russian winter, For this action he was violent-experts.
really mean. They are soft. ly assailed both In Parliament
Europe Centuries-old
traditions and what ancient customs lie on them like "naval a dead weight and numb their and bralas. They are no match for
the Russians."
an undoubted lunalle.
what constitutes
brought his undoubted legal respite. gonius to bear on the com- plexities of the case,
"I want you to realise that it and in the country.
a man be not absolutely insane within
re-
short.
critical
Of those the Central area,
such a forCE,”
Defence of Western
therefore, are addressed to rests,
and Ger- Guderian called the
United book Powers,"
On
Staten
.
BRITAIN POORLY OFF
"They Heading the list of pub- The True case demonstrated licity-seeking generals is German soldiers the meaning of the that the law of England in re-Colonel - General Guderian, man youth, His English law," Mr Justice Me- lation to criminal insanity is a Hitler's tank genius, who answers the question of the Britain, Cardle told the jury, "It is mass of anomalies.
fate of Europe." was recalled
to save tho usual that the jury should vin-
The distinction between me- German armies from dofeat dicate the law with iron firm- dical insanity and criminal
in 1944. 1038"
insanity (ie, moral irresponsi bility) is a confusing one, par- The Law about insanity was ticularly to a jury,
Three books are appear and many originally laid down at the Mac- experts think it should being simultaneously about and absolutely free and equal Infantry, the Constabulary **This is Guderian" Js a
and by Guderinn.
Naughton trial in 1043, when abolished.
Daniel MacNaughton was con- victed for the killing of Mr Drummond, private the Prime
in
secretary
Robert
day. 11 amounts of this: Insaully
CORRECT
no doubt the Home
Peel, and that law provella tu I have
"CLARIFICATION"
ន
One
General Guderian claims that ho writes on behalf of all Gor- mans "who have been insulted In 85 pages
of the paper-
and defamed for Ave years, and covered book Guderian argues He
says they have four whose assistance is now required that Germany must be "entirely divisions in Europe-the U.S. lot again."
to other nations if she is to (equal to a panzer division), the fake part in European_defence," British 2nd Infantry Division,
and the 7th Armoured Division He does not think much of the and adds: military preparations of Vir-
popular edition. For £2 Ger- mans can buy his vows, re- Collections, and plans for the future, published by Dusseldorf firm. Huge placards advertise "Guderian German
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called "Can count · Montgomery's Fontaine- "These are the only troops in General, the man known to will only be entertained as an Secretary's decision in this case Europe be Defended." The bleau planning staff. "The Europe which have adequate millions, whb teaches the world's
anya:
excuse where the accused per- was correct both on legal and publishing blurb inside the schoen we hour from Fontaine- air support,"
But the ques- son can show that his aberration moral grounds..
"At last bicau are of mind was such that he did tion arises: Should Renald True Cover
menta clarifles the situation! We
not know what he was doing, ever have been found guilty at Colonel - General Guderian neuraging," ar, if he did know what he toas c11?
anything but Guderian
com-
military loadore their job! Buy. Britain is otherwise in a poor this book for your Christmas way militarily, Guderian points roading." out "She has at present not a single division stationed in the British Isles," bo says.
Her
Many olops in West Gorman doing, did not know that it 2009. The Late Lord Birkenhead, Germans are told the truth TOTTING UP
towns are devoting their dis- wrong.
when Lord Chancellor, recom- about the chances of de
play windows to books by ex- mended that a person charged fonding Western Europe.
generals. Business la brisk., In thus assured that if criminally with an offence is Ir-
existing Foreign military experta military force of the Atlantic Division, is in Northeast Africa. man public wants
diviafon, miam'does wrong knowing it to responsible for his act
Infantry The rearmament-minded Gor- be wrong he could have refrains, the act in committed under an and politicians have talked Fact Fowers as follows.
to keep There ara -Fumours that the Abronst 'of the ŝimes.
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