AMERICA'S IRON LAW.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18107, 24 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICA'S IRON LAW.

THE IMMIGRATION QUOTA.

(BY CABIJt-PRISS ASSOCIATIOJf COPTBIOHT,) <aust*auax aso ** cabub association.;

NEW YORK, June 21.

The injurious inflexibility of the United States immigration law was again illustrated when Lady Theodora Wernher, daughter-in-law of Lady Ludlow, was detained upon arrival from Italy with her month-old daughter, who was born in Milan.- . Lady Wernher, although born in Leningrad, is admissible under 'th*. ruling that an alien resident of the United States may return after six months' absence, but her infant is not admissible because the Italian quota is exhausted.

Kir Derrick "Wernher, who has been a resident of the United States for 'the last five years, is at present in England, after a five months' tour of Italy with his wife, who, although ill, returned to the United States with her baby and nurse as first cabin passengers.

Lady Wernher attempted to override the officials, declaring that detention probably would be physically harmful, but, while appeal is being made to Washington, the officials declare'that the law must bo rigorously enforced. All three will be taken to Ellis Island, ostensibly awaiting deportation.

[Only the week before last Lady Ludlow's residence in Piccadilly was , entered by burglars, who stole jewels valued at £250,000 from her late husband's collection. And last week Sir Derrick Wernher was arrested on a charge of forgery varising'out of bank ruptcy proceedings in 1912.]