The Enemy Alien Problem in the Present War

At the beginning of this war, September 3, 1939, the usual legal concept of the term “enemy alien,” as it was known in the war of 1914–1918, appeared again in Great Britain, France, and Germany. Great Britain, in the Enemy Act of 1939, defines an enemy subject as “an individual who not being either a British subject or a British protected person, possesses the nationality of a state at war with His Majesty the King”; France defines the term as “les ressortissants ennemis”; the Reich, as aliens belonging to an enemy state, and includes those persons without nationality who before the loss of their nationality were citizens of an enemy Power.