The Union Daily Times

Washington, Sept. 18.-(By the Associated Press)-President Coolidge feels that government officials had no alternative under the law when they revoked the passport visa granted to Saklatvala, British communist delegate, once his revolutionary utterances had been called to their attention.

Men engaged in teaching doctrines subversive to the theories on which the American government is founded are barred from the United States by law and the fact that Saklatvala is a member of the British parliament and a delegate to the interparliamentary union does not, in Mr. Coolidge's opinion, give him special status.

The meeting is not an official one, nor was he coming as a representative of his government.

No special inquiry into the admissibility of other delegates to the meeting has been indicated, but it is assumed that the usual machinery of the government to enforce through the visa system the terms of the exclusion act will serve to single out any individual seeking to enter the United States, whether a delegate or not, whose known views and actions bring him within the prohibition of the statutes.

It was made plain today that the American authorities had no intention to reconsider the Saklatvala case.

Chairman Borah, of the senate foreign relations committee, who opposed the decision of the state department to revoke Saklatvala's passport visa, expressed the opinion today that the section might be harmful to American commercial and other interests in India.

At the same time, he thought that Saklatvala, due to his exclusion by this government was in position to make demands upon the British government that India be represented at the interparliamentary meeting. If this should be done, the senator declared he would not be surprised to see some of the strongest opposition to Saklatvala's visit to the United States withdrawn. with the result that the Indian communists leader might, after all, attend the meeting here.