File No. 351.117/77
The Secretary of State to Ambassador Sharp
Washington, April 25, 1916.
Sir: The Department has been informed that Armand Robert Garrot, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 7, 1894, of a French father, who, however, obtained naturalization as a citizen [Page 272] of the United States in the County Court of Cook County, Illinois, on March 13, 1901, left the United States in May, 1914, and went to Pontacq, Province of Basses Pyrenées, France, for the purpose of visiting his grandfather, Appolinaire Garrot, who resides at that place. It appears that a passport, No. 40732, was issued by the Department on September 8, 1914, to Armand Robert Garrot and mailed to his address in France upon an application which was made by his father in this country, and that Armand Robert Garrot desires to return to the United States but is being detained by the French authorities for the performance of military service in the French army.
You will please inform the appropriate French authorities in regard to the American citizenship of Armand Robert Garrot, and request that he be released from the performance of military service in the French army and permitted to return to the United States.
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