Ellis Island Frees Princeton Senior Held Eleven Days

Ellis Island Immigration officials released a Princeton senior, Roy W. Cohen, Friday, after an 11-day imprisonment as "a security risk."

The authorities refused to comment at length on the affair. They did say a letter Cohen wrote in 1950 urging conditional recognition of Communist China by the United Nations drew suspicion to himself.

The letter, sent throughout the nation, urged that all troops should leave Korea after an armistice, and that the U.N. should be sufficiently strengthened to prevent further aggression.

Cohen, a native of Columbia, S. A., was taken from Idlewilde Airport in New York when he landed September 14 and put in detention on Ellis Island. He claimed he was not told the charges or allowed to use a telephone for ten days.

Attorneys Called in

Dean Francis R. B. Godolphin of Princeton and other faculty members made calls to Ellis Island in his behalf as soon as Cohen's predicament was learned. A New York legal firm was called in, but it appeared little could be done under the laws of the McCarran Act. Then, on the 11th day, Cohen was released without explanation.

A copy of Cohen's letter supporting Communist China was printed in the Princetoian last year, and, after several letters attacking his stand had been received, Cohen wrote again that the course he had advocated was "by no means the best--it is only an example of the agreement which may be reached."