AUTHOR DENIED ENTRY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19758, 12 October 1938, Page 5

AUTHOR DENIED ENTRY

AMERICAN BARRIER FORMER BRITISH M.P. (Reed. Oct. 12, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 11. The British author and lecturer, Mr. John Strachey, was denied permission to enter the United States when he arrived on a lecture tour. The State Department explained that the visa had been cancelled and the department was not permitting an appeal from the decision. The department declined to give reasons. Mr. Strachey was confined to the ship, pending his return home voluntarily. He left the United Slates in 1035 after attacks by patriotic organisations charging him with communism. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey. who was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, was elected, at the age of 28 years, as the Labour member of the House of Commons for Aston, Birmingham, in 192!), holding the seat until 1931, when he resigned from the Parliamentary Labour Party and unsuccessfully contested the seat as an Independent. He is the author of a number of publications, including: Revolution by Reason, 1i)25; Workers' Control in the Russian Mining Industry, 1!)28; The Coming Struggle for Power, 1932; The Menace of Fascism, 1933; The Nature of the Capitalist Crisis, 1935; The Theory and Practice of Socialism, 1936.