Schmidt v. United States

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

The petitioner has appealed from an order denying his petition for naturalization on the ground that he had failed to establish that he' was a person of “good moral character” for the five years preceding the filing of the petition on July 5, 1944. He was a native of Germany, at that time thirty-nine years old, who had been admitted to the United States for permanent residence on January 17, 1939. He was a teacher of French and German in the College of the City of New York and was in every way qualified as a citizen, except that, in a moment of what may have been…