Court Opinion

ID: 9638069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:32:36.224419+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:03.484387
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On Petition for Rehearing.
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
The appellant insists that we have disregarded the effect of certain authorities cited on his supplemental brief and contends that because the Sudetenland has been reincorporated into Czechoslovakia the appellant has become a Czechoslovakian citizen. We again reject this contention. It might be an arguable one had the appellant remained in Krinsdor'f. Since he has been in the United States since 1935 no substantial question is presented. Oppenheim, International Law, 5th Ed., I, sec. 240. “He [Oppenheim] states that it is the American view that only the ‘inhabitants’ who ‘remain’ in the territory * * * are to be deemed nationals of the annexing state.” See United States ex rel. Schwarzkopf v. Uhl, 2 Cir., 137 F.2d 898, 902. Moreover, the appellant became a citizen of the Reich, as he himself concedes. He therefore continues to owe allegiance to that sovereign which still exists albeit its lands temporarily are occupied by the armies of the Allies.
Rehearing will be denied.