The Archive · 1932

Russian Delegate Refused Passport

Berlin, Feb. 2

A serious diplomatic conflet, has arisen between Russia and Switzer-Jand owing to the refusal of the 'Swiss Legation here to issue a visa to Karl Radek, one of the old Bolshevik gant and once prominent in Soviet councils from where he had been banished when he with Trotzky. Ife then recanted and made his' peace with Stalin Whereupon he was included in the Russian delegation for the disarm ment conference, However, Swiss, Minister here, remembering Kadek's revolutionary past in Europe and, particularly, Switzerland, where hho had lived with Lenin during the war, refused to sanction his journey. to Geneva on the ground that he was an undesirable alien and, there fore, could not entey Swiss territory.

Diplomatic representations ensued, it was revealed to-day, but Switze Jand proved adamant in this matter, and the Russian delegation had Teave Radek heind im Berlin, Later.

Due to the intervention of Mr. A. Henderson, the chairman of the disarmament conference, the Swiss government reconsidered' its decision and have now issued a visa to Karl Radek, attached to the Russian delegation on the express condition that he refrain from all. political activities during his stay in Gen= eva, Thus. the incident has been amicably settled—Trans-Ocean Kuo,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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