BRITISH AUTHOR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 14 March 1935, Page 9

BRITISH AUTHOR

Arrested in United States ALLEGED COMMUNIST Bv Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 12. The Government ordered the arrest of Mr Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, the British author, claiming that he entered the United States by means of false and misleading statements. Since his arrival he had declared himself to be a Communist, the Federal Bureau of Immigration announced, and those circumstances rendered Mr Strachej- mandatorily deportable under the immigration laws. Because of the prominence ot Mr Strachey many observers here considered that the projected action might grow into an international incident. Colonel D. W. AlacCormack, Immigration Commissioner, announced that a warrant had been issued by hi* Chicago agents and he planned to serve it on Mr Strachey at Glencoe, where the author is scheduled to lecture. Later advice from Chicago states that Mr Strachey was arrested there and released without bond. He is to appear before the immigration authorities on Wednesday. In a statement to the Associated Press, Mr Stiachey said: The charge as read to me in the warrant is absurd. I am not a member of the Communist party, and therefore will firmly deny that I entered the country through misstatements. 1 have never advocated the overthrow of the United States Government 1 y force or violence. I was never an advocate of anything here. All the political talking I do I do in my own country, Britain. Here American citizens invite me to lecture on and economics of the da\ from the informative standpoint, not from that of political beliefs. Air Strachey, who was born m 1901, is the author of “Revolution by Reason’’ (192.5) am) ‘’Workers' Control in Hit- Russian Alining Industry’’ (1928). From 1929 to 1931 he represented the Aston division ot Birmingham in the Labour interests. In 1931 he resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party and contested the seat as an Independent, being defeated. In 1929 he married the daughter ot Mr P. F. Murphy, of New York.