TURKEY AND AMERICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7380, 5 February 1902, Page 4

TURKEY AND AMERICA.

The State Department of the United States on December 23rd confirmed the report that Mr Eddy, the United States Charge at Constantinople, was in correspondence with the Porte relative to the proposed expulsion of naturalised American citizens from Turkey unless the citizens abandoned their allegiance to the United States. Owing to the absence of a naturalisation treaty between the United States and Turkey, the Republic has no special authority to interfere on behalf of these naturalised citizens, as agaiust an edict of expulsion. The reliance upon broad principles of international law is not strong, for the principle that a nation may refuse to allow its citizens to change their nationality has been pretty well established. But admitting the right of expulsion, the United states Government has itself the right to insist that this shall nob be attended by hardship such as might result from the allowance of a very limited period of time for leaving Turkey. The A merican press expect Mr Kddy to take advanced ground on that point, if he could not procure the abandonment of the projected order of expulsion. The matter is still unsettled.