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Southland Times, Issue 21179, 4 September 1930, Page 2

A peculiar case has been interesting the foreign consuls in Auckland. A man who applied for a passport to leave the country was found to possess no nationality, and it has been his fate for several years to wander over the face of the globe with no country to call his own, no civil rights and no claim upon any nation for sovereign protection. The man’s grandfather was a German who went to live in Holland and became a naturalized Dutch subject. His father, brought up a Dutch citizen, joined Garibaldi’s “red shirts” while a young man, and fought for the independence of Italy in 1866. This act earned him and other Dutchmen who were similarly imbued with a hankering for warlike adventure the censure of the Dutch Government, which summarily denaturalized him. He went to Switzerland and married a French girl, to whom a son was. born. It is this son who was recently in Auckland. He was educated in France and Spain, but naturalized in neither of those countries, and has since married a girl in the South Seas. He belongs to no nation and cannot take his father’s nationality owing to the action of the Dutch. Government.