Visa Cancelled; Noted Publicist Detained New York, Oct. 11.
Mr. Evelyn John Strachey, well-known British Left Wing publicist, was barred from entering the United States yesterday when the Narmandie docked; and was ordered to appear today before the Ellis Island Special Board of Enquiry.
The Commissioner of Immigration, in a statement on the subject, said that Mr. Strachey's passport visa had been revoked and cancelled by the Consul-General in London, by order of the State Department, after the author's departure from England.
The Board of Inquiry will decide whether to allow Mr. Strachey, who has come for a lecture tour, to enter the United States under a temporary permit, Interviewed on board the French liner, where he was detained last night, Mr. Strachey revealed that the United States Consulate in London had made contact with him shortly before he sailed and explained that the issue of a visa to him was a "Today is the most bitter day in our experience. We are draining the last dregs of the cup of humiliation," was the bitter comment of a Czech newspaper on the occupation of the final zone of Sudetenland. It is alleged that German troops stepped over the demarcation line at more than one point, notably at Braunau, where two additional communes were occupied.
Protests to the German commander were in vain. He replied that a deputation of the inhabitants invited him to occupy the region as it was chiefly inhabited by Sudeten Germans.
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