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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.”

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