The situation is simply. this: When an alien is admitted to citizenship today he takes an oath of allegiance in which he says. "I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjuie all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince. potentate. state. or sovereignty." and so forth. He abjures and renounces his allegiance to a foreign state. If this bill is passed in the form in which it will be. including the amendment offered -by the gentleman from New York. the duty and burden upon the United States district attorney in order to secure revocation of citizenship papers. will be to demonstrate to a jury as a matter of. fact that that naturalized citizen has retaken his allegiance to the country whose allegiance he has abjured when admitted to citizenship.
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