In reply to your memorandum of 27 March 1920, I desire to inform you that a person of German birth, who has become naturalized in Australia, becomes, upon denaturalization, a German national within the meaning of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, but the question whether the provisions of the Peace Treaty relating to the property of German nationals would apply in any such case would probably depend upon the dates of denationalization, naturalization and denaturalization.

I also desire to inform you that a person of German birth who, prior to being naturalized in Australia as a British subject was denationalized as regards Germany, would not, upon subsequently being denaturalized in the Commonwealth, become a German national.

[Vol. 16, p. 470]