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i P c C 9 e fe (';':{ v' S S . P APRIL 28 es - S Provi PI A | ' Gi to 'ex--I Guard"' Iven To exX--Iron Uar weiernprerim pire m trcrnns C e ' Magistrate Failed to Take Grave Enough View of Case Involving Fascist, Is View in Legislature Suspended sentence passed Tues-- day in a Toronto police court on Alfred Burnell, self--confessed § former "Iron Guard" of the Na-- tional Unity Party, will be appealed on the ground that Magistrate Forsyth did not take a serious enough view of the facts surround-- ing the threatening charge on which Burnell was convicted, At-- torney--General Conant yesterday announced before the Legislature. Burnel!l was convicted of threat-- ening Richard Sair, editor of the Canadian Tattler, after the latter had published articles exposing anti--British activities in Canada. | Burnell testified that he belong--| ed to a "strong arm" squad and | that he acted with an officer of the German army. Some members of | the squad carried clubs, said Bur-- nell, and some of the leaders were armed with pistols. Sair said he had received three bullets in the mail before being visited by Burnell. * Mr. Conant assured the House that, not only through the depart-- * ment and the provincial police would agents of the totalitarian propagandist, both _ Nazi _ and Communist, be kept under strict surveillance, but that evidence of their activities would be communi--| cated directly to the Minister of Justice in the hope of stimulating federal action. The Attorney--General's declara-- tion of policy in relation to activi-- ties of party movements seeking to destroy democratic principles of the f country, came at the end of a de--| 6i * . * R dis-- bate in which Col. George A. Drew | ,, Mr. (,laj\'ha\"pox.forr';\;dg :'0 the and J. J. Glass, K.C. (Lib., Toronto-- | tinct service in b""""',g 1k l}']e said St. Andrew), as mover and seconder | :'!'ttentllon ,-Ot;] tthe i"'OL:.:,(:; this .1"3('1. of a resolution, pressed the Hep-- But """;louf', tnh';' .1.ho ,.;,m,,d\. burn administration to institute an| UPO"_'"° ACti d ihai it is Investigation of these organizations lies 11X federal action l ; s Uhder the Public Ingquiries Act. _ | 4A hnational issue. Surely if . LhSME Mr. Conant, in opposiné the'mo- ie w s P cE UV whith ihe o tion, held that a six months' in-- Peplrll;\gnl.o(:'f'.:.::Lllt'z'iilf:Ol:'hde a(;';: vestigation would be unable to in-- (tenlsse :)fl:h:* r:alm" dicate i clearer w < o 5 oo going on than what was re.| |,. Cnlonel Drew sgreed with the M ' vealed in the Burnell trial and the :?'rn:yfzn;?ll;:,mwagé:le\:?;F;]f:e extensive files already incorporated e;l * nd that it was the pri-- in the department's records. The pro en; ation of Otta;vn to so government, he said, felt that an mary _RCLSO , 1 code that acti inquiry would cost a great deal of amend the criminal code that action money and might 'give these or-- could be taken. While still b.ehev- ganizations a type of publicity which 'g"r':\,'eh'fo ";f'"'rs::f ::si,s\:ffiirc",emg", * :::l:n:'egrve in some gegree, their withdrew the resolution at the re-- y ! _ quest of the Attorney--General. . + * LJ