Evening star., 1925-10-08
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Kellogg's Action in Case Of
SakIatvaIa Strengthens
Their Hands.
By WILLIAM RUFUS SCOTT.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
ROME, October S.-Secretary kel
logg has greatly strengthened every
government in Europe. except Russia.
by his decision excluding the English
communist, Saklatvala, from the
United States. and in Italy especially
the moral effect of the American pol
icy toward violent radicaliSm is haV-
ing important reaction.
II is y strong assertion. but Mr..
kellogg has marked the beginning of
an epoch, or at least in history his ac-
ton in this instance will be seen as
a dividing line. even If the processes
~ public thought which made his ac.
ton possible began much further back.
The Communist brotherhood through
ont the world now knows that the
days of easy propa gauda, and of
weakly rebuked conSpiracieS to over
throw existing society, are ended. But
it would be foolish to assume that
Communism will not yet give society
G"ne bitter experiences before 1t
finally is crushed.
Not isolated Case.
The idea that Mr.. Kellogg was SIM
ply blocking the move of an isolated
English Communist no doubt already
is secuted in the United States. one
must go to Moscow To get the true
perspective upon Saklatvaia. and see
through the eyes of the Third Inter
rationale.
There il is well understood that
Sallatvala IS in the House of Com
mons solely for propaganda and OBJ
StructiVe purposes. for he. no less
than Moscow. has a contempt for all
parliamentary bodies. He is Il mem
ber of the Interparliamentary Union
fer the same reasons he was i'll the
House of Commons and sought mem
bership in the union only that he
thereby might get, into the United
States for propaganda purposes.
Moscow looked ahead longingly to
Saklatvala's landing in America so
alspfciously. There would be the mo-
ton picture men who would put him
OF every theater screen in the United
s ates and Canada: the reporters
ouid have put him on the first page
o every newspaper. with pictures.
and all the other forms OF advertising
that being conspicuous In the public
eye entails.
Secretary Kellogg doubtless saw
through this and more important still
may have seen the subtle danger of
having an avoWed Communist enter
America in such a way rs to vastly
increase the prestige of Communism
III the eyes of certain elements of the
American population. II also prob
ably is true that this theatrical factor
would have hampered the American
Federation of Labor In its efforts to
prevent communistic infection. be-
cause many workmen would have
been misled into thinking that Com
n unism had become an accepted and
respectable" political unit
If the members of the Moscow group
have any sense of humor it must keep
them laughing continuously at the
way they have pulled the WOOL over
tie eyes Of governments at which
they were striking with the deadliest
thrusts. The leeway given them.
however. has been abruptly abridged
in the Kellogg decision, and will be
followed henceforth. in other nations
opposed to communism. by a more
stringest official attitude toward sub
ycrsive propag ganda preparatory to
violence.
Some effort has been made to ascribe
Mr.. kellogg's action to pro British