ARREST IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 7

ARREST IN AMERICA.

AUTHOR FROM BRITAIN. WASHINGTON, March 12. The Government lias ordered the arrest of Mr Evelyn John Straehey, the British author, claiming that he entered the United States by means of false and misleading statements. Since he arrived he had declared himself to be a Communist, the Federal Bureau of Immigration announced. The circumstances, it was mentioned, rendered Mr Straehey mandatorily dcpoftable under the immigration laws. Because of the prominence of Mr | Straehey, many observers here con- ; sidered that the projected action might ! grow into an international incident. I Colonel D. AY. Mae Cormack, Immi- | grntion Commissioner, announced that I a warrant had been issued. His Chicago agents planned to serve it on Air Straehey at Glencoeii, where the author was scheduled to lecture. Later advice from Chicago states that Mr Straehey was arrested there. In a statement to the Associated Press, Mr Straehey said: “The charge as read to me in the wirrant is absurd. I am not a. member of the Communist Party, therefore 1 will firmly deny that I entered the country through misstatements. I have never advocated the overthrow of the United States ! Government by force or violence. I never advocate anything. All the political talking 1 do I do in my own country, Britain. Here American citizens invite me to lecture on and economics of the day from an informative standpoint, and not from that ot political beliefs.’’ Mr Straehey was released without bond, and is to appear before the Immigration authorities on AA'ednesday. - LECTURE TOUR CONTINUED. Received March.'l4, 10.40 a.m. CHICAGO. March 13. Freed on a 500-dollar bond, Mr Straehey proceeded to Cleveland. (Ohio) to continue his lecture tour. Mr Evelyn John St. Lo'e Straehey was born in 1901 and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He contested the Aston Manor division of Birmingham as a Labour candidate in 1924 and represented the constituency from 1929 to 1931. He resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party in 1931 and unsuccessfully contested his former seat as an Independent in 1931. He has published “Revolution bv Reason,” “AA orkers Control in the Russian. Mining Indus--v ” “The Coming Struggle tor Power,” of Fascism, ~ri “The Nature of the Capitalist Crisis.”