GERMAN WOMAN'S APPOINTMENT WITH PRESIDENT CANNOT BE KEPT
New York City (JFK+50) On May 1, 1922, Gertrude Baer of Hamburg, Germany, a delegate to the Women's International League for Peace*, was released by a special board of inquiry.
Miss Baer, who was on President Warren G. Harding's appointment list for May 1st, informed the White House that she would not be able to keep the appointment because of her detainment at Ellis Island.
The German woman was being held at the immigration center at the direction of the Department of Justice "pending investigation of alleged communist beliefs."
*WILP founded in 1915 to bring together women of different political views & philosophical & religious backgrounds to study the causes of war & work for peace.
SOURCE
"Held At Ellis Island, Misses Engagement To See President," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
