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Show WAS DISOWNED Speyer Evaded Censorship, Trafficked With Foe, j Report Charges DEFENDANT EXPLAINS Former Privy Councillor,! Nov Living in Gotham, Claims Innocence LONTON Jan. 6. 'By the Assocl- : .ated Press) The British homo sec-' sec-' retary today issued. In the form of a j government paper the report on which J j Sir K L ar Sn u ., oaturaPzation was i recently revoked. Among the allegations contained In .the report arc a loan of $5000 to a j man named Ware for the benefit of I details of Sir Edgar's association with Curl Muck, former conductor of the 'Boston Symphonj orchestra, and sith John Koren. Sir Edgar's trafficking and communicating with enemy subjects sub-jects during the war and his evasion of the British censorship SPFYF.H REPLIES NEW YORK, Jan. 6. (By the Associated As-sociated Press) Sir Edgai Speyer, in 'a statement here concerning the re-I re-I port of the British naturalization re-I re-I vocation committee W hich recom-j recom-j mended that his British citizenship b revoked b.-c ni.se oi eharxes ,,t , li.sloy-alty li.sloy-alty during the war, said today he proposed pro-posed "in self-defense to exhibit in uhelr true light, the origin. histor and j purposes of the proceedings" against him. Til RLE LROi NT IS "The decision of the committee," he said. "Is baaed on three alleged grounds, equally tenuous and untenable." unten-able." What the committee characterized charac-terized as trading with the enemy, he said, consisted of "trifling transactions In banking and exchange with a re-I re-I putable American banking house as though it was disloyal to deal with Holiund during the war as most British Brit-ish banking houses, including our.-, were doing with tho full knowledge of the govoi nmeni " FURTHER INSvVERS The second chief allegation, which he pointed out, that of communicating communicat-ing with the enemy, consisted solely of "communicating with my slaters and brothers' families in an ntlrel Innocent Inno-cent way," The third principal count, he said, was really that of "evading the censorship with the full knowl-edge knowl-edge of the censor and Insisting upon the right to do so. In mutters all of which were ligltlnlate and Innocent."1 'The whole thing Is neither more I nor less than the culmination of years of political persecution." Sir Edgar said that he and his family fam-ily sailed for the Fnited State3 In May, luio. life for them In England ha,wag "become intolerable." Oil 1 |