Word: saklatvala
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...President let it be known that he regarded Mr. Kellogg's action in excluding Shapurji Saklatvala, Parsee and Communist member of the British Parliament, from U. S. shores, as the only action possible in compliance with the law. (See CABINET...
...murmurs, Secretary Kellogg took heed. He well remembered the storm that broke when Count Karolyi was admitted to this country to visit his sick Countess but forbidden political utterances (TIME, Mar. 2). He considered what might be done in the case of this Parsee with the unpronounceable name, Shapurji Saklatvala. Secretary Hughes had had his Karolyi, but Secretary Kellogg did not want a Saklatvala for a Karolyi...
...Saklatvala is understood to be a member of the British Parliamentary delegation to the Interparliamentary Union meeting to be held in Washington. He is not appointed by the British Government nor selected by any authority of the British Government. I know of no reason why he should be considered exempt from the immigration law any more than the humblest immigrant who holds subversive or revolutionary views and carries on propaganda contrary to our institutions. It is the policy of this Government to exclude such persons from coming to this country...
...neither necessary nor wise to exclude Saklatvala. He is a member of the British Parliament. What he has said he has said there. If he comes here for the Parliamentary Union sessions and violates any law, then there is time enough to proceed against him and put him in jail if need...
...Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P., sole Communist member, announced his intention of being present at this year's Inter-parliamentary Union Conference, to be held in Washington next month. He was asked if he thought the U. S. authorities would let it stand. After saying that he had two brothers who are U. S. "subjects," and that he will be paying them his first visit in 15 years, he added: "I don't for a moment expect the United States Government will be so childish as to interfere...