Foreign News: Bad Start

-Two of Strachey's visits to the U.S. were not without difficulty. In 1933 he was arrested and charged with entering the U.S. under false pretenses; i.e., he had said he was not in favor of violently overthrowing the government. These charges were dropped, but when Strachey arrived in New York again in 1938, he was held at Ellis Island for two weeks because his visa had been canceled while he was en route. The U.S. consul general in London had canceled the visa because he was "convinced that [Strachey] is a member ... of the executive committee of the British Communist Party." Strachey denied this and a U.S. circuit court of appeals later ruled that his visa should not have been revoked.