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Show BORAH PROTESTS OVEREXGLUSION STATE DEPARTMENT REFUSES TO YIELD TO ADMIT BRITISH BRIT-ISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER Idaho Senator Puts Up Fight To A I. low Shapurji Saklatrak, M. P., to Attend Conference In This Country Washington. Protest and criticism ;Of its action denying admission to jthe United States of Shapurji Saklat-vala, Saklat-vala, communist member of the British Brit-ish parliament, have brought no sign of yielding at the state department. Despite the contention of Senator Borah of Idaho, chairman of the senate sen-ate foreign relations committee ,and lothers that the utterances of Saklat-vala, Saklat-vala, who sought admission to this country as a delegate to the inter-.parlimentary inter-.parlimentary union here next month, Igave no adequate grounds for his exclusion, ex-clusion, department officials are satisfied sat-isfied that they do. Not only are they not disposed to reconsider Saklatvala's case, but it has been made plain that the department depart-ment will rigidly exclude henceforth, any individuals who publicily support views favoring the overthrow of government gov-ernment by force. In a statement issued after the department's de-partment's action cancelling Saklatvala's Saklat-vala's passport visa, Senator Borah j quoted from a recent speech by the communist member in the house of commons, and declared: "I think anyone who will read the speech will come to the conclusion that Saklatvala's crime is that of discussing dis-cussing conditions in India." The Civil Liberties union took a eimilar view of the matter in a statement state-ment issued by its officials in New York, after it had sent a tejegram of 'protest to the state department and had cabled an offer of legal assistance assist-ance to Saklatvala if he wished to test the s,tate department's ruling in the courts. Saklatvala's response in London to the department's action was that, while he had given up any intention of coming to America at this time, he would await the judgment of the American people as to whether they supported such action, in which the latter was quoted as saying he had been "thoroughly misrepresented and .misquoted" in statements used against his admission to this country. The .senator said he was requested in the icable to read the debate in the house !of commons over conditions in India lout of which the "supposed" state-' ments arose. "I read the debate," the senator said, "and found in it a powerful speech by Saklatvala on conditions iin India. He is undoubtedly a communist, commun-ist, but he was not discussing communism com-munism primarily. He was discussing what he thought were intolerable conditions con-ditions in India. "It was in this connection that he used the term 'sedious' and declared ihe was seditious and it was in this connection that he denounced British Imperialism. |
