The concept now embodied in the present War Claims Act that the United States owes a greater obligation to those who became citizens earlier than their fellow citizens is wholly antithetical to the spirit of the Constitution. Under our Constitution all American citizens are treated alike with the single exception of eligibility for the presidency. The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly stated that naturalized citizens are not secondclass citizens. It has been argued that this subject of war claims compensation involves international law and that the rules of internationallaw require continuous citizenship from the date of loss to the time of filing with respect to claims one government asserts against another on behalf of its nationals. However. it must be remembered that we are not concerned with international law.
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