CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921 — Page 216

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IN 8378/927/16)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE OFFICE,

KINGSWAY,

LONDON, W.0.2.

19th July, 1921.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.

Reference No. S.C.9866.

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Sir: -

I am directed by the Custodian to acknowledge the

receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, (your

reference N.7366/927/15), enclosing two Certificates as

to the Danish nationality of Mr. Petersen.

I am to state that the Custodian would, in a

similar case, if he received a Certificate from the

competent Danish Authority which was certified by the

Danish Minister as being conclusive evidence of Danish

nationality, especially when strengthened by a

Certificate from the German authorities that the

applicant was not and never had been treated as &

German national, accept the evidence as conclusive and

authorise a release of the property.

The Custodian regrets he cannot give a reference to

any case exactly on all fours with that of Mr. Petersen,

al though, of course, there are numerous oases in which a

person in Germany may be recognised as being a National

of a Neutral or Allied State under circumstances in which

such person would not under similar circumstances be in

a position to substantiate British nationality.

Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office,

5.W.1.

I am, etc.

(54.) P.F. Swain.

per

Principal Clerk.