Foreign News: Battersea Storm

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

Two members of the British delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, meeting at Washington on Oct. 1 (see CABINET), recently resigned because Shapurji Saklatvala, M.P. from Battersea, was a member of the same delegation. That they had acted too quickly became evident last week: Secretary of State Kellogg debarred Saklatvala from the U. S.

Not a few of Saklatvala's colleagues in Parliament were rather pleased to be relieved of the company of a man whose Communistic tendencies, coupled with violent anti-imperialistic feeling, they disliked. Sir Robert Home, head...

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