§ Mr. Bennasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in his communications with the United States authorities regarding Mrs. Hazel Wolf, he satisfied himself that she is in fact a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies; and if he will give the detailed 28W evidence upon which he based this conclusion.
§ Mr. R. AllanThe grounds on which the conclusion was reached that Mrs. Wolf is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies are as follows.
Mrs. Wolf's birth certificate showed her to have been born in Canada on 10th March, 1898, and she therefore became a British subject at birth. She ceased to be a British subject in 1926 under the provisions of Section 10 of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, on marriage to an alien. Her marriage was to a United States citizen but she did not acquire United States citizenship by virtue of that marriage. Section 10 was amended by the British Nationality Act, 1933, so as to provide, inter alia, that a married woman who had lost British nationality on marriage to an alien should regain it automatically if she had not acquired her husband's nationality through her marriage. Mrs. Wolf thus became once more a British subject. She then automatically became a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies under Section 12 (4) of the British Nationality Act, 1948.
As Mrs. Wolf was an alien under Canadian law when the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946, came into force, and consequently did not become a citizen of Canada under the provisions of that Act, her only citizenship is that of the United Kingdom and Colonies.