711.514/8a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)53
Sir: [Here follow four paragraphs, the same, mutatis mutandis, as the first four paragraphs of instruction No. 167 to the Ambassador in Belgium, printed supra.]
With reference to this matter your attention is called to the draft of a proposed Naturalization Treaty, which accompanied the Department’s instruction No. 649 of May 11, 1923,54 and was the subject of the Department’s instruction No. 1613 of July 8, 1925,54 and the Embassy’s despatch No. 6218 of April 1, 1926,55 and other correspondence between the Embassy and the Department. If the French Government is willing to conclude a Naturalization Treaty it might be desirable to include therein the proposed article concerning dual nationality existing in cases of persons born in either country of parents having the nationality of the other. In such case it would, of course, be necessary to make an appropriate change in the preamble [Page 500] of the proposed Naturalization Treaty. It might be amended to read as follows:
“The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of France, being desirous of regulating the nationality of those persons who have emigrated or who may emigrate from the United States of America to France, and from France to the United States of America, and the liability for military service and other acts of allegiance of such persons and all persons born in the territory of either state of persons having the nationality of the other, have resolved to conclude a treaty on this subject and for that purpose have appointed their plenipotentiaries, etc.”
[Here follow two paragraphs, the same, mutatis mutandis, as the last two paragraphs of instruction No. 167 to the Ambassador in Belgium, printed supra.]
I am [etc.]
- Similar instructions on the same date to the chiefs of missions in Greece (No. 210), Italy (No. 1102), Poland (No. 873), Spain (No. 491), and Yugoslavia (No. 165).↩
- Not printed.↩
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. ii, p. 108.↩