Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017
1 The Act of May 9, 1918 (40 Stat. 542, 545), permitted any person who, while a citizen of the United States, and during the existing war in Europe, had entered the military or naval service of any country at war with a country with which the United States was then at war, who should be deemed to have lost his citizenship “by reason of any oath or obligation taken by him for the purpose of entering such service,” to resume his citizenship by taking the oath of allegiance to the United States prescribed by its naturalization law and regulations.