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The Ban of Alien Marriages in the Foreign Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2017

Ellery C. Stowell
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1937 , pp. 91 - 94
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1937

References

1 Executive Order No. 7497. Printed also in The Department of State, Press Releases, Dec. 5, 1936, pp. 456–457; and in Supplement to this JOURNAL, p. 51.

2 Act of Sept. 22, 1922, 42 Stat. 1022; Supplement to this JOURNAL, VOL 17 (1923), p. 52.

3 As reported in the press (New York Herald-Tribune, Dec. 2, 1936), Ambassador Bullitt, upon his arrival in Moscow, was placed in this embarrassing situation. The Ambassador, who is a single man, found no American wife among the members of his staff.

4 Act of May 24, 1934, 48 Stat. 798; Supplement to this Journal, Vol. 28 (1934), p. 130.

5 Diplomatic Serial No. 2727, Nov. 28, 1936, “Marriage of Foreign Service Officers with Aliens,” printed in Department of State Press Releases, Dec. 5, p. 456; also Supplement to this JOURNAL, p. 50.

6 Of 684 Foreign Service officers, 12’7 have married aliens; 45 of British nationality, 22 French, 11 German, 10 Russian, and 39 distributed among 19 other countries. Fifty-one of these marriages occurred before the Cable Act became effective, so that these alien wives as a consequence of their marriage acquired the American nationality of their husbands. Twelve others have been nationalized since their marriage, and one before. The other 63 have remained aliens. Of the 724 American clerks in the Service at the date of June 30, 1936, 202 had married aliens, of whom 146 still retain that status.

7 Brazil and Japan, for instance, prohibit marriage with aliens; Mexico gives preference to Foreign Service officers married to Mexicans; and several other countries, including Belgium, Chile, Ecuador, France, Italy, Peru, and Turkey require their Foreign Service officers