The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-27
BORAHPREPA ARES
BILL TO REPEAL
EXCLUSION LAW
Congress to Act at Next
Session
CspeoiaI to Tho DAILY Worker,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 25-The
action Of Secretary of State Kellogg
in barring Countess Catherine karolyi,
wife Of Count Michael Karolyi, who
was president Of the short-lived Hun
earian republic in 191s-1s19,. that
gave way to Hungarian Soviet rule,
may lead to the introduction of bill
Into the next session Of congress for
the repeal Of that section of the i'm
migration act which Secretary Of
State Kellogg has used quite freely
TO bar those whose opinions were
considered dangerous to the noneyed
interests that use the White House
as their branch office.
The section of the immigration act
which the secretary of state has used
in barring persons he disliked is some
Of the legislation passed during the
wartime hysteria. Senator Borah Of
Idaho is now preparing bill to re.
peal that clause and take away this
power from Kellogg.
The refusal to grant Countess
Karolyi admittanee to the United
States came about when the countess,
upon receiving an invitation from the
wife of Ralph Beaver Strassburger,
millionaire newspaper publisher of
Norristown, Pa, applied for visa.
Strassburger, who it is said, has
contributed between one or two mil
lion dollars to the republican slush
fund in Pennsylvania, protested to
Secretary Kellogg that Countess
Karolyi was not Communist, but
liberal that opposed the Horthy re-
gime for overthrowing the Hungarian
republic. He made an attempt to-
convince the secretary that he should
rescind his former action. The sec
rotary refused. Strassburger then ap-
pealed to Coolidge, who upheld the ac-
ton Of the state secretary. Borah,
chairman Of the senate foreign rela-
lions committee and opponent Of the
administration policy was then ap-
pealed to. Borah then threatened
Coolidge that he would introduce a
bill into the next congress for the re-
peal of this wartime measure if KEEL
logg and Coolidge continue to per-
sist in barring the countess from the
country
The Countess Karolyi was in the
United States last year and nothing
was said about her political views.
While in America she took sick, and
then Count Karolyi made attempts to
come to her sick-bed. He was allow
ed to enter the United States only
after he promised the administration
that he would not discuss political is
sues. After the countess had become
well, the Count and Countess Karolyi
left the country and went to Canada.
In Canada number Of articles were
written by the count and published in
the American newspapers denouncing
the attempts of the administration
forces to gag all who were of differ
ent political leanings from those hav-
ing the power of government in their
hands.
A few months ago this very same
clause was used by the state depart
ment to bar Shapurji Saklatvala, Com
munist member of the British house
of commons, from entering the Unit
cd States to attend the sessions of
the interparIiamentary union congress
held at Washington, d. G. for a
speech made in the British parlia-
ment for the independence Of India.
Protest meetings were arranged all
over the nation demanding his admit
lance. Saklatavla had been granted a
visa, but upon protest Of the British
tories, the visa was revoked.
Countess Catherine Karolyi claims
that the state secretary is barring her
from making this visit to America at
the request Of the dictator Horthy's
lackey, Szechenyi who is married
to one of the Vanderbilts.
Mary MacSwiney, sister Of the late
mayor Of Cork, who died during a
hunger strike protesting against his
Imprisonment by the British empire
for his activities in behalf OF the Irish
republic, is in America without any
passport or visa defying the United
States government TO deport her. Ea-
mon De Valera also entered the Unit
ed States without a passport and de-
livered series of lectures against the
British puppet. the Free State govern
ment in Ireland. Both had been re-
fused visas by the state department
at the insistence Of the British EN-
pire.