United States v. Tooma

LEVIN, Chief Judge.

This denaturalization action is brought on the ground that the order and certificate of naturalization were “procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation,” Sec. 340(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1451(a).

The defendant was born in Estonia in 1935 and lived there until that country was re-occupied by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1944, following the German defeat. In that year, the defendant and his mother and sister (his father was killed in 1942) moved to Austria and two years later traveled to the French…