Stock Photo - """About Turn, Mr. Smertenko!"" - Professor Johan Smertenko (nearest-camera) seated in the Me. 108 for the second half of his return flight from France to Great Britain, at Croydon this morning (Thursday). Professor Johan Smertenko, vice-president of the American League for a Free Palestine, who, in defiance of a Home Office order forbidding him to enter Britain, landed at Croydon in a private French aircraft yesterday, returned to France by the same means this morning (Thursday). He had been held at nearby Wallington police station overnight alter Having spent so long on the telephone yesterday afternoon that it became too dark for him to fly back. January 16, 1947.