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HERR KISCH
Reasons For Exclusion
MR. MENZIES’ STATEMENT
MELBOURNE, Wednesday
Referring to the action of the Commonwealth immigration authorities in preventing the Czechoslovakian novelist, Herr Egon Kisch, from landing at Fremantle yesterday, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) said that the Commonwealth felt under no obligation to admit persons of this type.
Herr Kisch was excluded from Great Britain because of his subversive views and his association with Communist organisations.
Mr. Menzies said that the case had been dealt with by the Cabinet before his appointment as Attorney-General, and he could not indicate whether it would be reviewed.
Mr. Menzies said that Mr. J. Griffin, a New Zealand delegate to the all-Australia congress against war and Fascism, had been prev
