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Czech Com- munists used to apologise for the shortcomings of Vaclav Kopecky. They said he was the stupidest Communist in the Cabinet; that as Minister of Information he was a buffoon and constantly dropping. bricks,
SEFTON
LMER'S
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2. The Foreign
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JOHN DEANE POTTER vielis Britain's strangest jalk
Prisoners back villagers in No Hanging' protest
FALFIELD, Gloucestershire. was convicted of manslaughter
N the little villages of Crom- and sentenced
to five
years" hall, Falfield, and Tortworth penal servitude-Is out of jail the proposed experiment to and working at a bench In a SAVA murderers from the North of England, engineering gallows is causing alarm. inctory.
Already on their doorsteps the villagers have one experi- D Alan Nunn May, sentenced
Among the present inmales, is 10 ment in crime and punishment wen years' Imprisonment for --the prison-without-bars in the divulging alom secrets to a foreign grounds of Tortworth Hall. And Power. May is a "monitor" and there, behind crumbling brick wears a blue blazer with a red arm band instead of the usual Tortworth walls and a single Iron-barred grey suit. front gate. are 300 criminals, Every week ог
there arc reprieved murdererà among escapes from the prison, but only them.
one man has succeeded in getting away for good.
is Richard In two years the villagers Timmins, the I.R.A. terrorist, who have come to accept the place, escaped to Elre and although re- and have forgotten their carly captured by the Civic Guard was. panic. But if the death sen- not returned to England.
When men escape they forfeit the tence is suspended they fear right to go back to Tortworth. The that the Hall may become the other ..priconers resent escapees, home of a more vicious type of feeling that they are "letting prisoner.
elde down."
So the local council at Thorn- bury has passed a resolution protesting to the Home Office
*Harmless*
LTHOUGH among the prisoners about the no-more-hanging deci- there are more thon 20 mur- derers, most of the prisoners are embezzling solleitars, accountants, bigamists.
sion in the Commons.
Ede's pride
A prison official said: "The sort of men we have here, although ELLIS, who lives at Crom- derers, are very often people who service, should be given full con-hall, nearest vilinge to the anye murdered their wives in a fit trol. The European Service should
"None of the them would frighten a white mouse Jealousy over infidelity. None of be separated from the BBC and be come a department of the Foreign once.
now has the responsibility for the / (UNCILLOR FREDERICK some of them are branded as mur-
With the full information sources of the Foreign Office behind it, and the men who make the policy in charge of the microphone Instead of merely "advising," the Volce of Britain could speak with much confidence greater authority, and than it speaks today.
Bet him go
they told me. No, oop news from Athens. Mr They agreed with us news- they were doing nothing extra George Melas, the Greek paper reporters that he was one to meet the special circum- Minister of Justice, is stopping any of Europe's most painfully stances in Czechoslovakia. further executions until he himself jocular and most tritely loqua- Now in my opinion this atti- has been through the flies of all the cious bores.
tude is characteristic of the 2,781 persons being held for execu- unimaginative and unenterpris- tion. ing attitude of the B.B.C.
"Never mind him," they used to say, "he won't last. He will be dropped at the next re- shuffle.'
fullest
I would recommend, to the al- Instead of leaving the field to tention of Mr Melas a man whom I Kopecky, they should be put- found in the fall at Lamia. ting out special commentaries
what
prison, says: villagers worries very much, as we realise that the prisoners are carefully selected. The only thing that does agitate us is what will happen if we start
who in the getting men
or rdinary way would have been
hanged."
The voice from the Glouces tershire hills will be considered carefully by Mr Chuter Ede, for he is proud of the Tortworth Hall experiment.
Non,
of
they are too carefully selected. Not one has harmed a villager.""
Life by day differs little from ihat of any other jail. After an ordinary prison breakfast the men Ale off to the shoe-repairing and talloring shops, or start tree-telling. At four they return to their huts each houses 30 men with a private- room for the "monitor"--and cat a meal at which talking is allowed.
Then ife in the prison changes. Instead of being locked up for the night the prisoners tend their vegetable and flower patches until six o'clock lectures begin.
Training for agriculture and en-
He was there only, a short while ago for discussions with the governor, Mr J. E. Hender- gineering are subjects the authorities the son of a blacksmith, specially encourage. A town clerk formerly a prison warder and who was jailed for several years is deputy governor of Wakefield one of the best agriculture experts Prison. They agreed that the the jail has produced. He will be
helped to get a job experiment had proved so suc- executive when he is released.
a job as an agricultural cessful that the Home Secretary.
The
prisoners also have discussion. is to try to buy Tortworth Hall groups. Lately they have been de-
bating. the abolition for use as a permanent jail.
of capital punishment.
And they are solidly behind the villagers of Cromhati. Killer free
Falfield, and Tortworth.
is
the
killer.
mon-
The men think that the Home
powers Secretary already has the
CHALK UP A NEW SUPERMAN
But Kopecky stayed.
The charge against Soterios to Czechoslovakia comparing in Heggots-I confirmed this with the And now comes the news that full detail what is happening in prison authorities-was that in De-
and Kopecky has made good. He Czechoslovakia
is cember 1942, while serving os aNE of its successful graduates has won a major propaganda happening in Britain.
a man who less than he needs. They say: "No man gels They partisan under a British officer, he ambushed an Italian military car at victory.
should point out that Attlee's the bridge of Achinos, killed
three years ago was a Page One topped in this country unless he deserves it. So why change the action, such n8 it is, has Italians in it and seven Greeks. He Today that man-he law?" When Mr Attlee ordered the aroused protest and bitter is now accused of murder. anti-Communist purge in the opposition in Britain, and that This seems to me quite British Civil Service, Kopecky the fight against it is still strous. decreed that the British purge going on. was to be given the
I Begguishe has been held in publicity in all Czech and Slovak It is high time that the fail for the past two years--lg ̄ ̄ ̄
B.B.C. gave up its present easy him until the civil war is over,
dangerous Communist, then intern newspapers.
His intention was that the going and apologetically defen- reports from London should sive "Projection of Britain" for silence Czech critics of their a more aggressive policy.
After all, we are caught up in own purge.
a political war between the A Slovak deputy, who a few Communist East and the de days ago crawled across tho mocratic West. Full and ac-
factual in- T Czech frontier to freedom and curate news and has now arrived in London, tells formation are among our main aid me that Kopecky has been bril- weapons. liantly successful with his cam- paign.
But do not hold him for murder. In 1942 he was a soldier fighting for his country.
Aid for Franco
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
Persistence: From the first' Rowe the fullest
VOU have probably never, thought they were wasting You
heard of Mr A. P. Rowe. their time out of uniform. Yet Rowe is the man tipped to succeed to one of Britain's most insisted that without responsible jobs-leadership of application of selence, victory for. E coast is clear for American
the team of top-rank scientists the Allies was Impossible. It was aid to Franco Spain. Private
which briefs from bankers
the Cabinet on largely his drive that brought about and Anunciers,
the close laison between the selen- mind you-not from the U.S. Trea- atomic age defence.
tists and the Oghting man. The B.B.C. should bombard sury.
Lending that team now is Sir
Salesmanship: the Cominform countries with
produced Spain and the Allies have signed Henry Tizard, who is nearly 63. all the arguments which got tho newa. They should do every- an agreement in Madrid on the "You see," any the Prague
German
Since he may soon wish to retire money to translate hunches into Communists, "every democracy thing to prevent the Communist liquidation of
Spain.
the Cabinet has wisely caat weapons. has its political purges.
Who propaganda machine from con-
around for n successor to match Tact: This was vital in getting
between. Tizard in experience, tact fore- compromise
scientists purges whom just depends on solidating its hold on the newly
anxious to get equipment, perfect who is in power and who is not." subjugated countries of Eastern United States will be unfrozen by sight, and ability.
before it went into production and Europe.
Servico chiefs desperate to get their hands on anything useful in battle.
The non-Communists have, no.
answer.
As a result-- 1. All Spanish
Washington.
assets in
assets in the
2. The State Department's on private loans to Spain will be
And, believe me, if the Com- raised.
Rowe
T
Rowe, a slightly built, 48. velo year-old civil servant, is likely
Foresight: I would quote this to be the man. Just why, you can judge for yourself by read- Passage: "My chief worry was that the radar station would be rendered interference ing his modestly titled book uceless by deliberate "One Story of Radar" (Cam from hostlie jamming stations. bridge University Press, 10s. therefore gave one of the staff the insk of making his colleagues' lives a misery by deliberately Jamming When the danger Throughout the war Rowe the equipment.
of Jamming had been demonstrated hended the "School for Secrets" the ideas to combat them were not. the book reveals his qualities: long in uncked his men so hard
in coming."
I regard Kopecky's victory as munists can be made to feel American Anonclers are planning a defeat for the European Scr. doubtful of how far they con- to lend Spain about 50 million vice of the B.B.C. They should trol public opinion and the pub- dollars for a start. have provided the Czechs with lic in their Eastern jumping- And soon the agitation for Spain But they have not, off bases they will feel much to come in on the Marshall plan and as far as I can gather they less inclined to do any jumping will be renewed. have not even bothered to. off.
an answer,
I telephoned their Czech sec- I would make two recommen- tion to find out what they have dations. THAT- done in this matter and what they are doing.. :
Fisticuffs
6.).
their
Rowe
Organising ability: He that his health broke down For FIELD-MARSHAL LORD MONT- managed to lead a team of the last 18 months he has been in 1. The present schedule of the boxing: where 3,000 people mixed bag of Australia' winning it back. European Service be revised so that is nothing bellicose about it.....Il
Nations
Or-
make a worthy
Tizard
This book proves that Rowo-now "We are putting out what prezent to the Western countries, ciples of the United
the major output does not go as at is fully in kecplus with the prtemperamental scientists, has been called King of the Boffins.
routine-conscious civil servants, at again-will news there is about the purge in but to the new-starved East.
ganisation"
and workmen, many of whom Crown Prince.
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