Mr. Kellogg, the American Secretary of State, has revoked the
passport granted to Mr. Saklatvala who proposed to visit America as one of the British delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference. Mr. Saklatvala, a Parsee, is the Communist M.P. for Battersea. Some of his speeches have been so revolutionary and generally preposterous that certain other members of the delegation declared that they would not be ass(); ciated with him and withdrew from the delegation. This, we think, was a mistake. Why (as Sir Robert Horne very justly asked) leave Mr. Saklatvala to go to America as a British Parliamentary representative relieved of some of the restraints which might have kept him in order ? This question of tactics, however, lost interest when Mr. Kellogg altered the whole situation by refusing to let Mr. Saklatvala enter the United States. He pointed out that the fact that Mr. Saklatvala was a Member of Parliament had nothing to do with the American Government ; the irnrai rration law must be administered for all alike.
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