A group of 70 Congressmen of Irish descent last night threatened to boycott the Congressional reception for King George and Queen Elizabeth tomorrow unless Federal authorities immediately released Sean Russell Chief of Staff of the outlawed Irish Republican Army who was arrested in Detroit on Tuesday.
Mr. James McGranery, Democrat of Pennsylvania, announced that 70 members of the House of Representatives might boycott the reception as a protest-against the detention of the Irish revolutionary leader in Detroit.
Mr. McGranery, Mr. Joseph Smith and Mr. Martin L. Sweeney, Congressmen, protested to "President Roosevelt against Russell's detention last night. They said in their protest that holding Russell incommunicado was "inexcusable."
The President promised to take up the question with the State Department.
Russell was arrested on the eve of the arrival of the British King and Queen in the United States after he had boasted that he had personally ordered the recent bombing outrages in England—United Press.
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