Evening star., 1926-11-06
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS.
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

Now there is more trouble in store
for Americans. The new Minister to
Mexico. Nine. Kollantay, from one of
the greatest nations of Europe,
hearing what q fine time Queen Marie
is having, en- tour through the
States" decided that she might as
we'll take in the sights and "dollar-a-
mile" special train service, as to
travel by water directly to Vera Cruz.
She could study the wonderful pros
perity of the Americans, and see how
they have achieved that prosperity
or at least how it might be over
Minister is a lady and has feminine
curiosity-furtherm she is a
diplomatic representative of Com
munistic Soviet RUSSIA government
which this country does not recognize,
for what appears to our officials good
and sufficient reasons.
Under instructions of our State De-
partment our consul general In Nor
way has refused to visa the passports
of Nine. Kollantay, as an undesirable
tourist. So she must go right to
Mexico, and cannot enter the realm
where '.all men are equal
And now it transpires that she had
gone to Norway and bought many
/ SON lis. ICI OilAS OiiN
thing worse than "a woman Scorned'
and that is one "all dressed up and
no place to GO"
Result of this "highhanded outrage
is that all the communists, socialists,
anarchists and plotters of world
revolution are in rage, denOunc1ng
the Government in general, and Sec
retary of State Kellogg in particular.
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The fact that our consul general to
Norway, in refusing the visa, char
acterized Nine. Kollantay as "a mem
Der of the Third Internationale Con-
gress, who has been actively aSso-
ciated with the Third Internationale
subversive movement has not salts
fled the affiliated Communists of
America that that is any reason why
she should not blaze a trail of treason
from New York to Ell Paso, via San
Francisco or Miami, and hold glorious
subversive meetings at all points. Us
not this a country Of boasted free
speech and an asylum for all political
agitators of the world?"
There are even many Americans
who contend that in our limitleSs free
dom we should welcome everybody
and reserve disciplinary methods to
offenses committed on our own soil
| That Is the doctrine taught in certain
colleges and churches and among
parlor Bolshevists.
It is not. however, the doctrine OF
our laws passed in the last decade
| or so.
Self-protection is the first law of
| life-whether of the individual or the
nation. Our Congress takes the posi-
! ton that free speech of our citizens
has nothing to do with permitting
| treasonable aliens plotting or adVo
eating the overthrowing of our Gov
ernment. Such propaganda is not
open to discussion.
/ Secretary Kellogg said in a speech
| in New York a year ago:
There is one question which OF
late has attracted public attention, ano
on which l desire to state the position
of the State Department, and that is
the admission of anarchists, revolu
tionists, agitators and propagandlsts
who advocate the overthrow of orderly
| government, and those who are at
! filiated with societies for that pur'
pose-in other words, undesirable
aliens The policy of this country, as
plainly indicated by acts of Congress
| is to keep certain specified classes OF
aliens out of the country. Some peo
ple seem to think that the policy
should be different; that the doors
should be thrown open, and the ac
tivities of undesirable aliens dealt
with from the inside, after they ar
rive. But that is not the policy of the
country as emphatically declared by
| Congress. All loose talk of an aEbi
trary and unjustified attitude of the
Secretary Of State or of American
consuls in this field IS singularly flu
tile. l am charged with the enforce.
ment of this policy and, furthermore
| believe in it"
| This was made law by Congress
| under the Wilson administration anG
is not merely the policy of Secretary
kellogg nor of President Coolidge
Secretary kellogg makes It plain