Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 351.117/83

Ambassador Sharp to the Secretary of State

No. 3231

American Embassy,
Paris, May 25, 1916.

Sir: In compliance with the Department’s No. 1051 of April 25 directing me to inform the French authorities of the citizenship of Armand Robert Garrot [etc.] I communicated with the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The Minister has just replied that according to French law, Mr. Garrot is French, being born abroad of a French father, and that the naturalization of the father, having been made after the birth of the son, does not modify his origin.

The Minister’s note, a copy and translation of which is enclosed,² states that it is not possible to release Mr. Garrot from military service for which he is held in France.

I have [etc.]

For the Ambassador:

Robert Woods Bliss

2. Not printed.