In re Jonasson

ROSE, District Judge.

[1] The applicant for naturalization was born in 1882 in Schleswig. He came into the world a German subject because as a sequel to the war of 1864 Prussia had annexed his birthplace. While his father was a Swede, his mother a Dane, and be in blood and. sympathy is Scandinavian, not German, he is in law a subject of Willielm II, German Emperor, and as a legal consequence, since the 6th instant, an alien enemy.

[2] Does the law permit his naturalization? By an act first passed in 1802, c. 28, 2 Stat. 153, now forming part of section 2171 of the Revised Statutes (Comp. St.…