Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-04
Secretary Of State Holds Man
Born FL This Country of
Foreign Parents May Have
Double Allegiance.
ROOSEVELT AND LODGE
HOLD DISSENTING VIEW
Former President and MaSsa-
chuSettS Senator Holly AS
Set Birth Under Stars and
Stripes Sufficient.

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Washington. july B senator
Henry Cabot Lodge OF Massachusetts.
Theodore Roosevelt and Robert Lam
sing. our new secretary Of state. have
engaged in a three handed discussion
ol Che Important subject Of dual na-
tonalIty The colonel struck IRE FIRST
in his piQnaut article in "a popular
magazine when rs an American
Not nn American
This WIS O discussion az the case Of
Il. A. belung of Sew Orleans Lel0ng
was born IN the United States. but his
father was French MT Lansing as
counselor had written 10 him that he
was born with "a dual nationality
and that 1he department cannot
Therefore give you pny assurance that
YOU would not Bee hoid liable for the
performance Of military service In
France should you voluntarily place
yourself within French jurisdiction
ln his letter which n dated April
2, 1915, Counselor Lansing quoted the
section 90 the French ciyil code which
defines as a Frcnehmuu "cpcrv per-
con born OF "a French man In France
OF abroad
Colonel Roosevelt bitterly attacked
this doctrine and declared that 1t was
dangerously close 10 treason 10 the
United Sttes that men born here of
foreign pafentage men who have
served in the militia of this country.
who vote ana hold office and exercise
all the other rights of citizenship
should be hlandly informed hy the
state department that IL they visit
the countries ia which their parents
We're born they can De seized. punish
Vi a.I ].
made 70 serve TN the army
Colonel Roosevelt pointed out that
u Colonel Goethnla went To Holland
or AdmrlH Ostcrhaus and Schroeder
20 Germany they might be seized for
military service In those countries ifl
the doctrine recognized by Counselor
lansing were TO prevail
senator l.udsc entered the field ln-
doprndcntlN aud merely n the course
ot senatorial routine. Hc had occasion
not long ago to take up with tho
state department tho ease of iRo Da
PrHto. who was born n Boston sub
regucnt to his fathers naturalization,
but who bad been forced into the
italian army while studying architee-
ture in that country The young man
WAS clearly an American citizen upon
whom Italy had no possible claim
The department admitted this fact
and directed the American ambasso.
dor at Rome 90 ask for The immed-
ute release OF n8 prato and report
tho results
10 the course of the correspond.
oncc. however, MI Lansing In "a let
Ger 90 senator Lodge touched upon
the general question o. dual nation
Hlity ana of the rights of persons
born Ia this country. ana finally pre-
parrd q formal letter iu which Incl
dtnially he discussed tho teloug case
aud virtually replied 90 the criticisms
az Roosevelt
The previous letters OF Senator
Lodge had been Informal. hut upon
the lutIWauon Of Mt Lansing. who
meantime had become secretary of
state ad Interim that the letter
should he made public. he prepared "a
brief hui pungent reply io Inc argu-
meuta OF the formal Lansing letter OF
june 2
Thr two documents were given out
hF the state department tins week. +
hui the subject was of So technical,
q character that the daily press ear
iied only confused account sc inc
correspondence rerhups not much
can he given mere. nevertheless the I
thrco distinguished gentlemen among |
themselves have raised an Hsup which I
may prove Go have vital bearing Boa .
thH unprecedented period when 4
dozen European nations are at war
and millions uf their SONS are living
in the nlivd states as American Dltl- /
gems
The state department through Sec /
rotary lanmnr has gone on record .
virtually aH unrcadN tu protest the I