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The same applies to persons conscripted, but in either case I doubt that the subsequent history, interned or left uninterned, would effect the legal consequences of embodiment or conscription, the effect of either of which is prima facie that the contract of employment automatically ceases but without prejudice to any compensation or right of reinstatement which the Government may have thought fit to provide.
Your other question about the legal position of the administration of the affairs of a captive, whether embodied, conscripted or civilian, is even more difficult by reason of the manifold diversity of those affairs as between one man and another. Where there are in this country assets, the property of or earmarked for such an individual, and someone clothed by his own act or operation of law with powers to continue to administer those assets, it may be assumed that such leave as technically might be requisite to continue But where that administration will be forthcoming from this office. as had most likely happened the assets are here but nobody has any express authority to deal with them, a situation arises which has to be resolved by consideration of the form of the assets and the willingness of someone to take responsibility for their use and/or disposal. I should be happy to consider cases in this category which are of extreme hardship, although I much regret that I cannot warrant that the same exercise of dispensing powers under the Trading with the Enemy Act will provide a solution. It is one thing to say that there is no objection to a course of action, and another to pledge ratification by the individual hereafter of acts bona fide done in his interests, however reasonable.
Yours sincerely,
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