Harue Sakamoto v. Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States, as Successor to the Alien Property Custodian

KOELSCH, Circuit Judge.

This suit is the sequel to an unsuccessful application by Harue Sakamoto to the Attorney General for the proceeds of certain property seized by the Alien Property Custodian during World War II under the Trading with the Enemy Act (40 Stat. 411, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1 et seq.), hereinafter referred to as the “Act.”

Harue Sakamoto, the former owner of the property and the appellant here, by reason of her birth in the Territory (now State) of Hawaii, was a citizen of both the United States and Japan. In 1947 she lost her United States citizenship by voting in a Japanese…