National Affairs: Warning

The Department of State, writer of official notes to kings, ministers, directors, and potentates of the world, last week despatched a memorandum directed at a handful of U. S. citizens who have been piloting French airplanes in the war against the Riffs in Morocco.

The memorandum was merely a warning. It called attention to a section of the revised statutes which forbids the enlistment of U. S. nationals in foreign military ventures within the U. S. or in territory under its jurisdiction. (The U. S. has by treaty extraterritoriality jurisdiction over its citizens in...

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