740.00111A Passenger Travel/58a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Harrison)
134. On December 14, 1939, following regulations prescribed,80 amending the regulations issued on November 6, 1939, as amended by regulation issued on November 17, 1939, relating to travel on belligerent [Page 716] vessels, and also amending the regulations issued on November 17, 1939, relating to travel into or through combat areas:
“Individuals who possess both American nationality and a foreign nationality, and who habitually reside in the foreign state of which they are nationals, and who are using passports of such foreign state, may, while en route to and from such state, travel on a belligerent vessel across the English Channel, the Irish Sea or St. George’s Channel without obtaining specific authority and without an American passport endorsed as valid for such travel. Individuals who undertake travel under the conditions indicated shall do so on the understanding that they will look for protection to the foreign state whose passport they carry.”
Repeat to consulates by air mail.
- Department of State Bulletin, December 16, 1939, p. 686, or 4 Federal Register 4871.↩