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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...
...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...
...these 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...
...members of the British delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, meeting at Washington on Oct. 1 (see CABINET), recently resigned because Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P. from Battersea, was a member of the same delegation. That they had acted too quickly became evident last week: Secretary of State Kellogg debarred Saklatvala from...
...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...