"Bar the Door!"

Protests against the readmission of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Ambassador of Soviet Russia, who was deported in 1921, and his associate, Gregory Weinstein, reached the State Department. Copies of the protest, which emanated from women's patriotic societies, were sent to Senator Borah of Idaho, who favors political and diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia.

Weinstein, who much resumbles one of Ding's cartoons of a crazy anarchist, is actually an amiable, talented, and witty Jewish revolutionary. He was one of Ludwig C. A. K. Marten's ablest assistants during the comic career of the Soviet "Embassy" in New York two years ago, and both he and his chief left America together under the impression that they had been deported. The Department of Labor subsequently denied that the deportation order had been given, and blamed the New York Legislature's Lusk Committee, "which had no authority." This affords the loophole through which Martens and Weinstein hope to get back into the country.