The treaty also provides that a person born in the United States of Albanian parents who has the nationality of both the United States and Albania shall not, if he has his habitual residence, that is, the place of his general abode, in the territory of the state of his birth, be held liable for military service or any other act of allegiance during a temporary stay in the territory of the other country.

33. Austria.-Article 230 of the Treaty of St. Germain, the rights and advantages of which are accorded to the United States by its treaty establishing friendly relations with Austria, concluded on August 24, 1921, stipulates that Austria undertakes to recognize any new nationality which has been or may be acquired by her nationals under the laws of the Allied and Associated Powers and in accordance with the decisions of the competent authorities of these powers pursuant to naturalization laws or under treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as having, in consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in all respects severed their allegiance to their country of origin.

34. Belgium. In accordance with the law on the Army, recruiting, and the obligation of service, the text of which was published in the Moniteur Belge of March 9, 1929, all Belgian citizens must be enrolled in the recruiting reserve from the age of 17 years, but they are not

considered as having violated this requirement unless they have failed to enter their names for enrollment before the 31st day of December of the year in which they attain the age of 19 years.

Under the terms of the naturalization convention between the United States and Belgium, a Belgian naturalized as a citizen of the United States is considered by Belgium as a citizen of the United States, but upon return to Belgium he may be prosecuted for a crime or misdemeanor committed before naturalization, saving such limitations as are established by the laws of Belgium.

A naturalized American formerly a Belgian who has resided 5 years in this country cannot be held to military service in Belgium, or to incidental obligations resulting therefrom, in the event of his return, except in cases of desertion from organized and embodied military or naval service.

Under Belgian law a person born in the United States of Belgian parents may, between the time when he reaches 16 years of age and the 31st of December of the year during which he reaches 19 years of age and with the consent of the person or persons whose consent would be necessary to validate his marriage, renounce Belgian nationality without special consent of the Belgian Government. If such consent cannot be obtained, he may, in order to avoid difficulties during a temporary stay in Belgium, request that he be inscribed for the Belgian militia and at the same time ask

that he be suspended from military service until he has attained the age of 21 years, when he can execute the act of renunciation of Belgian nationality without the approval of his legal guardian. If, after having attained the age of 19, when he becomes liable to obligations of military service for the active Army and the reserve, he desires to make a declaration of renunciation, he must first obtain the permission of the Belgian Government. Such permission is given as a matter of course, however, if at the time he is domiciled in the United States. The duration of military obligations in the active Army and the reserve is 15 years, and at the end of that period a declaration of renunciation may be made without the special consent of the Belgian Government. The renunciation of Belgian nationality may be made before a Belgian diplomatic or consular representative in the United States.

35. Bulgaria.-A national of Bulgaria who has been naturalized as a citizen of the United States is recognized as an American citizen upon his return to the country of his origin, subject to any law providing that Bulgarians do not lose their nationality by becoming naturalized in another country during a period when Bulgaria is at war. Bulgarians who have become naturalized as American citizens are not, upon returning to Bulgaria, subject to punishment for the original act of emigration or for failure prior to naturalization to respond

to calls for military service accruing after bona fide residence was acquired in American territory. If a national of Bulgaria who has been naturalized as a citizen of the United States shall renew his residence in Bulgaria without the intent of returning to the United States, he may be held to have renounced his naturalization. The intent not to return may be held to exist when a person naturalized in the United States shall have resided 2 years or more in Bulgaria.

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36. Czechoslovakia.-Under naturalization between the United States and Czechoslovakia it is provided that nationals of Czechoslovakia who have been or shall be naturalized in the territories of the United States shall be held by Czechoslovakia to have lost their former nationality and to be nationals of the United States. The treaty provides that the foregoing provision shall not be applicable to a national of Czechoslovakia who obtains naturalization in the United States while Czechoslovakia is at war. Nationals of Czechoslovakia naturalized in the United States are not, upon their return to Czechoslovak territory, prosecuted or punished for expatriation, or for having failed, prior to their naturalization, to answer summonses to military service which had been served upon them within a period of 5 years preceding their naturalization. If a national of Czechoslovakia who has been naturalized as a citizen of the United States shall renew his residence in Czecho

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With regard to persons born in the United States of Czechoslovak parents, officials of the Czechoslovak Ministry of National Defense have orally informed the American consul general at Prague that American-born sons of Czechoslovak citizens may visit Czechoslovakia for 6 months without fear of being inducted into the Czechoslovak Army and that if they remain beyond that time they should call immediately upon the District Office and submit a petition requesting their release from the Army rolls.

37. Denmark.-In November or December of the year in which the person liable to military service becomes 17 years old, he is expected to report for enrollment on the conscription list. If he neglects to do so, he may be fined from 4 to 40 kroner; but if his neglect arises from a design to evade service he may be imprisoned.

Anyone leaving the country before he should be entered on the conscription list is expected, in case he returns before his thirty-second year and is yet subject to military service, to report for entry on the conscription list.