United States ex rel. Gregoire v. Watkins

KNOX, District Judge.

In this proceeding Armand Gregoire, who is now detained by respondent as an alien enemy under the provisions of Title 50 U.S.C.A. § 21, and the Proclamation of the President No. 2526, dated December 8, 1941, seeks to be released from custody.

Relator was born at Metz, in the province of Lorraine, on October 9, 1894, at which time that territory was a part of Germany. His father was born there in 1865 which, of course, was prior to the disaster that overtook France in the Franco-Prussian war. He therefore, if alive and in the United States, could not possibly be regarded as…