President Hoover has been petitioned to take steps to bar Rosika Schwimmer, Jewish pacifist leader, recently refused American citizenship by a Supreme Court decision, from reentering the United States when she returns from a trip to Europe, on a permit granted her for a temporary visit abroad.
The request was made to the President in the form of a petition submitted in behalf of the Board of Directors of the Women Patriot Publishing Company by Mary G. Kilbreth.
The permit granted Madame Schwimmer for a temporory visit abroad, the petition contends, is not a title of readmission to the United States and does not give her the status of a non-quota immigrant. It is granted with the reservation that it is to have no effect on the immigration laws beyond showing that the alien in question is returning from a temporary visit abroad. President Hoover is therefore urged to give most careful consideration to the prompt and vigorous enforcement of the law.
The petition maintains that Madame Schwimmer is in a class with Countess Karolyi and Mme. Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Mexico, both of whom were refused admission to the United States. Countess Karolyi was excluded under the passport control act and Miss Kilbreth declares that “Frau Schwimmer, as well as her intimate friends and patrons, Count and Countess Karolyi, comes clearly within the class under which the Karolyis were excluded.” Leniency, she continues, to Madame Schwimmer “would jeopardize the principles of war time conscription of citizens, and just enforcement of the immigration law.
“It would be intolerable injustice,” the petition declares, “to draft some men for the front and some women for any service they could perform while harboring, exempt from any service, native or alien militant war obstructors of the Rosika Schwimmer and Roger Baldwin types (in jail or at large) working to thwart our nation’s victory.”
Associated on the directorate of the Women Patriot with Miss Kilbreth are: Mrs. Randolph Frothingham of Boston, Mrs. Rufus Gibbs of Baltimore and Mrs. B. L. Robinson of Cambridge, Mass.
Funeral services were conducted Monday for Sidney S. Prince, former Governor of the New York Stock Exchange, who died at his home in Mamaroneck. New York, on Saturday. Interment took place at the Mount Hope Cemetery. He was sixty-four years old.
A native of Germany, Mr. Prince came to the United States in 1877. For more than fifty years he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Asiel and Company, and a member of the Stock Exchange from 1893 to 1928.
He was a trustee and former treasurer of the Mount Sinai Hospital and a benefactor and advisor of the Federation settlement.
He is survived by his wife, a brother and a sister.
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