Word: shapurji
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the Cabinet squelched several persistent committees of British bondholders who have recently petitioned for aid in dunning U. S. States which were once Confederate. A chuckle rippled across the Commons, as the sole Communist M. P., famed Shapurji Saklatvala, a swarthy Indian demanded: "Does not the Under Secretary think this another case where His Majesty's Government ought to send troops of occupation to protect British interests...
...throng burst into "The International," as Laborite George Lansbury, M. P., beat time jovially with his large bowler hat. With him stood the sole British Communist M. P., Shapurji Saklatvala, carrying a large bouquet of red roses for Mme. Rosengolz...
While an attendant was ejecting him, the Commons rang with cries of "Up, Saklatvala!" from laughing members. Shapurji Saklatvala, only Communist in the House of Commons, paid no heed to the alarm...
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...