740.00111A Recruiting/23: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom ( Kennedy ) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 15—9:48 a.m.]
1660. The Embassy is receiving inquiries from Americans who desire to serve Great Britain in one capacity or another in the armed combatant forces, army medical corps, air raid precautions organizations, or non-combatant activities related to the conflict and who desire to know if by so doing they would infringe United States laws and the effect their action would have on their American citizenship. Unless otherwise instructed, the Embassy plans to confine itself (1) to providing them with a copy of the President’s Proclamation of Neutrality, and (2) to citing the first paragraph of section 2 of the Citizenship Act of March 2, 1907.52
- 34 Stat 1228.↩