1 1, or for uraliza military n them g their zecho as a whis at the he is ired Ore son hall -04 rary law valid until December 31, 1949, enrolment at the conscription board should take place during the year in which the individual reaches his nineteenth birthday. 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. Anyone who, after having been entered on the conscription list or after having reported for entry on the list, leaves the country must, under penalty of fines of from 10 to 100 kroner, report his departure as well as his return to the competent official. These rules are also at present disregarded under the aforementioned temporary law, so that the individual conscripts, in the event that they are due to appear at the forthcoming examination of army recruits, are prohibited from leaving the country without specific authorization from the Ministry of Interior. During the year when the person liable to military service attains the age of 20 he board of examiners, and if he is found to be fit for service he is then entered on the Army list and called for service the fol lowing year, unless he has obtained from the Minister of the Interior a deferment to one of the following years or unless, in consequence of a high number drawn by lot, he is exempted from military service. In case he fails to appear when the law requires that he be assigned to military duty he is liable to imprisonment. The treaty of naturalization between the United States and Denmark, signed July 20, 1872, provides that a former subject of Denmark naturalized in the United States shall, upon his return to Denmark, be treated as a citizen of the United States; but he is not thereby exempted from penalties for offenses committed against Danish law before his emigration. If he renews his residence in Denmark, with intent to remain, he is held to have renounced his American citizenship. The intent not to return may, under the treaty, be held to exist when the naturalized citi zen shall have resided for 2 years in his native land. A naturalized American citizen formerly a subject of Denmark, having renewed his residence in Denmark with intent to remain or having resided in that country for more than 2 years, is liable to perform military service in Denmark if he was in the Army at the time of emigration and deserted; or if, before emigration, he had been enrolled for duty, called, and failed to appear; or if, after his return, he is assigned to a military unit. The Ministry of Interior is authorized, upon application, to exempt conscripts from military service in peacetime when it is established that the individual in question has served in the armed forces of a foreign state within the period from September 1, 1939, to December 31, 1945. Reference here is chiefly to conscripts who have served in the armed forces of the Allied countries. Furthermore, dispensation may be given under certain circumstances to conscripts who have resided abroad on the Faroe Islands or in Greenland within the period from who have therefore not performed military service in Denmark. Germany Supreme authority in Germany is being exercised, on instructions from their governments, by the United States, British, and French High Commissioners, each in his own zone of occupation, and also jointly through the Allied High Commission in matters affecting the three Western zones which comprise the Federal Republic of Germany. The Department is not in a position to indicate the exact status and scope of nationality laws in Germany, except that in the United States zone of occupation no laws will be permitted to conflict with the United States laws on naturalization. Military service laws are not in effect in Germany. Hungary The Department is not in a position to indicate what nationality and other laws 0 will be made applicable to natives of Hungary who have become naturalized as citizens of the United States or to American citizens born in the United States of Hungarian parents. Lithuania Visas for entry into or transit through Lithuania must be obtained from a Soviet diplomatic or consular representative. Information concerning the nationality status in Lithuania of persons born in the United States of Lithuanian parents, and of persons born in Lithuania who later become naturalized as citizens of the United States should be obtained from the Soviet Union through a diplomatic or consular representative of that country. It is urged that information as to visas and as to nationality status be obtained from the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D. C., by the person concerned before his departure from the United States. |