United States ex rel. Strachey v. Reimer

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissing a writ of habeas corptis. The writ was issued to review the legality of the action of the Department of Labor in excluding from the United States the relator Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, a British subject, who arrived at the port of New York, on October 10, 1938, to engage in a lecture tour for which he was under contract.

In order to come to the United States he had applied to the American Consul at London for a passport visa as a non-immigrant, visiting the…