In France

Can a country prohibit an unwelcome immigrant from landing on its shores? Can a country order an unwelcome musician to leave its shores? Both questions have been answered in the affirmative--the first by the U. S. to the disadvantage of the Japanese, the second by France to the discomfiture of Americans.

The Ministry of Labor, acting on the protests of French musicians, ordered 20 or 30 American jazz producers to quit France within five days and confiscated their papers, excepting passports. French musicians claimed that they were out of employment on account of the Americans.

The orchestras invited to leave included Billy Arnold's, Kel Keech's, Bill Henley's, the International Five (Negro), the Cracker jacks (Negro), King's (Negro). The procedure, according to reports, "is the usual one followed in cases of undesirables."

American jazz artists, much incensed, expect a protest from Secretary Hughes. Vincent Lopez, famed Manhattan jazz conductor, ejaculated: "If this is official action by the French Government it is a slap at America. It seems hardly possible that such could be the case."