LOST CITIZENSHIP
AMERICAN WHO SERVED IN CANADIAN UNITS. CASE ESTABLISHING PRECEDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 10 a.m.) MONTREAL. July 2. A United States Board of Inquiry has ruled that Philip Stegerer. aged 26, of Washington, has forfeited United States citizenship, by joining the Canadian active service units, from which he has been honourably discharged as medically unlit. The board has refused permission for Stegerer to return to the United States. This is believed to be a precedent whereby hundreds may be deprived of U.S.A, citizenship because they swore allegiance to his Majesty the King of the United Kingdom. iI.TiE
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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101LOST CITIZENSHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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