Word: shapurji
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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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...
...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...
...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...