ALIENS - NATURALIZATION - REFUSAL TO BEAR ARMS

In applying for citizenship, petitioner, a licensed missionary in the denomination of Seventh Day Adventists, was unwilling to promise to bear arms, on the ground that she was a noncombatant. Petitioner was not a pacifist or conscientious objector and would gladly do any war work in an army camp except that involving the use of a weapon. Held, that application for naturalization must be denied for failure to take the oath of allegiance in the form prescribed by law. The court expressed its desire to grant citizenship, but declared itself bound by stare decisis.

In re Losey, (D. C. Wash. 1941) 39 F. Supp. 37.