Conrad Dishonored

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

"You have perpetrated a heartless fraud. . . . The name of a man who has adorned our English literature has been dishonored by his son. . . ."

Having spoken these words, a judge at Old Bailey Court, London, imposed sentence of "twelve months imprisonment without hard labor" last week upon Alfred Borys Conrad, who had just pleaded guilty to a charge of converting to his own use -L-1,100 ($5,346) entrusted to him to buy certain manuscripts of his late father, Novelist Joseph Conrad.

Mr. Richard Curie, literary executor of Joseph Conrad, testified for son Conrad, saying: "Arthur returned from the War a changed man mentally."