Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.
Berlin, September 5, 1902.
Sir: I have the honor to report that I have to-day declined to issue a new passport to one Gustav Frank Eichborn. When Eichborn’s old passport (No. 1735) was issued to him in January, 1900, he was warned, by direction of Ambassador White, that “should he not return to the United States as expected, and should apply for a new passport at the expiration of the one given him, it would be refused him.” Eichborn is the American-born son of naturalized parents; he [Page 450] was brought to Germany in 1891, when about 13 years old, and he has resided in Dresden ever since. In January, 1900, he declared that it was his intention to return to the United States within two years. Consul-General Cole now writes that he “has secured a situation with a business house in Dresden predicated on his ability to secure a passport, and while he promises to return to the United States within two years, he (Mr. Cole) rather questions the statement, because he made the same promise two years ago.” Eichborn is still of the “military age,” and he apparently merely wishes to make a convenience of his American nationality.
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