CANADA DENIES WILL APPOINT MINISTER TO BERLIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 13

CANADA DENIES WILL APPOINT MINISTER TO BERLIN.

Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. OTTAWA, November 23. “I never heard of it. It has never been suggested,” was the comment of Mr J. A. Robb, Acting-Premier, when asked regarding the possibility of the appointment of a Canadian Commissioner in Berlin, as suggested in a Paris cable reading: “Mr G. W. Stephens, of Montreal, chairman of the commission governing the Saar under the League of Nations, will possibly be appointed the first Canadian High Commissioner in Berlin.” DOMINIONS MAY HAVE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 23. Highly placed personages are discussing the possibility of the dominions irf the future having special officials in London for the purposes of . consultation on foreign affairs, and likewise Britain having commissioners in the, dominions for the same purpose.. The! new departure, however; is not contemplated immediately. Sir Francis Bell is sailing for New Zealand on December 3 in the Corinthic. NATIONALITY OF WOMEN. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 22. The committee on nationality, whose recommendations were adopted by the Conference, considered in all its bearings the question of the nationality of married women, to which women’s organisations throughout the Empire had 4rawn attention. Despite the difficulties of dual nationality arising therefrom, some of the delegates favoured legal amendments giving British women the opportunity of retaining their nationality no matter whom they married, but in view of the importance of uniforrnity throughout the Empire the committee made no recommendations pending tlie possibility pf an international agreement on the two questions of “dual nationality” and “no nationality ” by the League of Nations expert committee on the codification of international law. The committee recommended the amendment of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, in order to facilitate the acquisition of British nationality by children of the third generation born abroad of British parents during the war, also extending the time for the registration of British children of the second generation born abroad. Further, it recommended amendments to provide that. British subjects by naturalisation shall be obliged to register at a British Consulate annually while resident abroad, also empowering the revocation of naturalisation certificates in cases: (1) Of a widow of a British subject by naturalisation; (2) of person who acquired British nationality through sidence with parents in the United Kingdom; (3) of a person who during two years had not complied with the obligation to register.