Word: saklatvala
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Thus Secretary Kellogg announces the future policy of the State Department, and justifies its recent action notably in the exclusion of the Countess Karolyl and the British M.P., Saklatvala. The issue which he states, somewhat unfairly, in the query which begins his apology, is an old one, but the concensus of liberal opinion has for so long stood stolidly for one point of view, that it is starting to find him thus imperiously committing the nation to the opposite position...
That authority was exercised recently in refusing a visa to Shapurji Saklatvala, Communist member of the British Parliament. Last year it was exercised in a different manner: Countess Catherine Karolyi, wife of the onetime President of the Republic of Hungary, had been admitted to the U. S. Soon after her arrival she was taken down with typhoid fever and her husband was summoned from England (TIME, March 2, 1925). In granting him a visa the State Department extorted from him a promise that he would make no political speeches, since he was believed to be a Communist. He arrived...
...received orders in the past from Moscow. The session was then adjourned pending the opening of the formal trial proceedings, and the twelve defendants trooped forth and were promptly hailed as heroes and crusaders by their flag-waving sympathizers. With them walked famed and unique Communist M. P. Shapurji Saklatvala, whom Secretary Kellogg recently barred from the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 28 CABINET). Shapurji had previously supplied bail for several of the accused; attentive, he had harkened to the words of Prosecutor Sir Travers, with intent to make good use of them in stirring up Communist resentment against "British Fascism...
...Saklatvala's colleagues in Parliament were rather pleased to be relieved of the company of a man whose Communistic tendencies, coupled with violent anti-imperialistic feeling, they disliked. Sir Robert Home, head of the British delegation, remarked...
Others felt the American action discourteous or unwise. The most unexpected outcome of Secretary Kellogg's action, however, was the circulation of a petition in Battersea,, Mr. Saklatvala's constituency, which according to report, attracted crowds of signers. It demanded that Saklatvala apologize for his utterances, especially what he said about British policy in India, or resign...