DLA166-0043  Transcription 

ALDERLEY PARK,

CHELFORD, CHESHIRE.

17. October 1917

Dear Mrs. Laszlo,

I see by this morning’s Manchester Guardian that the advisory committee have refused to set your husband at liberty –

This seems to me a high handed and [aggressive?] action

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but under the defence of the realm act and its regulations we live under arbitrary conditions, and no definite charge is formulated nor is any evidence pro-duced.

But I understand the two definite

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charges are (1) hostile associations as proved by correspondence with Austro Hungary through the Dutch legation (2) aiding an escaped prisoner.^[1] As to (1). Justice Sankey^[2] agrees [tell?-ing] me admitted that if the letters were really on family matters and

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not conveying information to the enemy, that charges [illegible words]. As to (2) The evidence of the police should prove that there was no attempt to help an escaped prisoner but on the contrary prompt information to the police which secured his recapture.

It seems to me that if all [illegible] correspondence ceased 14 months ago it was rather late to intern him on that,

Editorial Note:

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley, 3rd Baron Eddisbury and 4th Baron Sheffield (1839-1925); English peer; for biographical notes, see [12808].

StdeL

06/11/2023