Today -100: February 22, 1926: Of social crimes

Vera, the Countess Cathcart is allowed into the US for 10 days on a  $500 bond. No one seems to know who made this sudden decision or why. (Update: A Labor Dept solicitor will admit tomorrow that it was he, but won’t discuss his reasons, which seem likely to be about preempting a habeas corpus hearing, which you can’t have if the government doesn’t habba your corpus. He says the whole thing may come down to whether “the commission of a social crime,” i.e., adultery, counts as a crime in the US even though it’s not a crime in South Africa, where it was committed.)

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