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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1938, Page 9

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MR. JOHN STRACHEY

NEW YORK, October 11.

The British author and lecturer Mr. John Strachey was denied permission to enter the United States when he -arrived on a lecture tour today.

The State Department explained that his visa was cancelled, and will not permit appeal from the decision. The Department declined to give reasons.

Mr. Strachey is confined to his ship pending his return home voluntarily He left the United States in 1935 after attacks by patriotic organisations charging him with being a Communist.

Mr. John Strachey, one of the bestknown of British Leftist writers and the author of "The Coming Struggle for Power," "The Menace of Fascism," "The Theory and Practice of Socialism," etc., was arrested in Chicago in March, 1935, and charged with entering the United States by means of a false declaration. He declared that the charges against him were "absolutely false." Mr. Strachey had just delivered a lecture in a suburban synagogue and it was announced that the authorities would seek his deportation on the ground that he had been openly advocating Communism in a series of lectures. The United States Department of Labour, however, dropped proceedings against him, and he returned to England a few days later. _ In July last year he was refused a visa by the British Foreign Office in order that he might attend the Second International Writers' Congress at Valencia, Spain. The congress had been arranged some time before the Spanish war began.