ARREST IN AMERICA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 130, 14 March 1935, Page 5

ARREST IN AMERICA

BRITISH RADICAL AUTHOR. ILLEGAL ENTRY ALLEGED, "A DECLARED COMMUNIST." (United Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 12. The Federal' Government ordered the arrest q£. Mr Evelyn John Strachey, the British author, claiming that he entered the United States by means of false and misleading statements and that since he arrived he had declared himself to be a Communist. The Bureau of Immigration announced that the circumstances it mentioned rendered Mr Strachey mandatorily deportable under the immigration laws. Because of the prominence of Mr Strachey, many observers here said they considered the projected action might grow into an international incident. Colonel D. W. McCormack (Immigration Commissioner) announced that his Chicago agents served the warrant on Mr Strachey at Glencoe, Illinois, where the author was scheduled to lecture. Mr Strachey was released without bond to appear before the immigration authorities on Wednesday. RELEASED ON A BOND. * LECTURE TOUR. PROCEEDING. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) . NEW YORK, March' 13. A message from Chicago states that freed on a bond of 500 dollars, Strachey proceeded to Cleveland (Ohio) to continue his lecturing tour.

DENIAL OF SEDITION. ONLY GIVING INFORMATION. WASHINGTON, March 12. In a statement to the Associated Press at Chicago, Mr Strachey said: "The charge as read to me in the warrant is absurd. I am not a member of the Communist Party and therefore I will firmly deny that I entered this country through mis-statements. I have never advocated the overthrow of the United States Government by force or violence. I never advocate anything, ./ul the political talking I do I do in my own country, Britain. Here American citizens invite me to lecture on the politics and economics of the day from an informative standpoint, not from that of political beliefs."

Mr Strachey, who is thirty-four years of age, is a son of the late Mi 4 John St. £.oe Strachey, the anti-Socialist, who edited the "Spectator" for a long period and later the "Cornhill." Evelyn Strachey was educated at Eton and Oxford. He was a Labour member of Parliament for a Birmingham seat but resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1931, and contested his seat as t\. Independent being defeated. His publications include: "Revolution by Reason," 1925; "Workers' Control in the Russian Mining Industry," 1928; "The Coming Struggle for Power," 1932; "The Menace of Fascism," 1933; and "The Nature of the Capitalist Crisis," 1934.