77. Colonel BURNasked the Home Secretary what course he intends to adopt 1911 in the case of English women who have married Germans and who refuse to go to the country of their adoption; and will he give facilities for their renaturalisation as British subjects?
§ Mr. SHORTTBritish-born women who have married German husbands will not be compelled to go to Germany against their will. In certain cases of special hardship such women can, under recent legislation, be granted naturalisation as British subjects. The general question of the nationality of married women is one of those which is under consideration, in consultation with the self-governing Dominions and India, with a view to legislation, if necessary, at a convenient date.