711.554/4
The Chargé in Belgium (Reed) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 7.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Embassy’s telegram No. 7 of January 18, 1929, and the Department’s telegram in reply thereto of January 19, 6 p.m., relative to an inquiry of the Belgian Foreign [Page 440] Office concerning the manner in which a child born in the United States of a Belgian father may divest himself of his American citizenship with a view to retaining only the father’s nationality.
The import of the Department’s telegram was conveyed to the Foreign Office by a note dated January 21, 1929, a copy of which is enclosed.4
The Embassy has now received a further communication on the subject from the Foreign Office, from which it appears that the latter is not satisfied with the information furnished it by the Embassy and that it desires a more precise explanation of the bearing of American legislation on the point in question.
I am enclosing a copy and translation of this note, dated February 22, 1929,4 and I should appreciate it if I might have the Department’s instruction regarding the reply which should be made thereto.
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