The Nation - News from April 28, 1985

Farley Mowat, Canadian author, protesting that he has been treated “as if I were a criminal,” said he would refuse to come into the United States despite State Department clearance. “I will not go under a shadow,” said Mowat, 63, who was barred earlier in the week from entering the country after the U.S. Immigration Service accused him of past associations with “communists, anarchists or subversives.” Mowat denied that he had connections with any of those groups. Mowat was stopped in Toronto when he tried to board a plane for Los Angeles and a promotion tour for his book, “Sea of Slaughter.”