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sertion from organized and embodied military 
or naval service. 
Under Belgian law a person born in the 
United States of Belgian parents may, between 
the time when he reaches 16 years of age and 
the 31st of December of the year during which 
he reaches 19 years of age and with the con¬ 
sent of the person or persons whose consent 
would be necessary to validate his marriage, 
renounce Belgian nationality without special 
consent of the Belgian Government. If such 
consent cannot be obtained, he may, in order 
to avoid difficulties during a temporary stay 
in Belgium, request that he be inscribed for 
the Belgian militia and at the same time ask 
that he be suspended from military service 
until he has attained the age of 21 years, when - 
he can execute the act of renunciation of Bel¬ 
gian nationality without the approval of his 
legal guardian. If after having attained the 
age of 19, when he becomes liable to obligations 
of military service for the active army and the 
reserve, he desires to make a declaration of 
renunciation, he must first obtain the permis¬ 
sion of the Belgian Government. Such permis¬ 
sion is given as a matter of course, however, 
if at the time he is domiciled in the United 
States. The duration of military obligations in 
the active army and the reserve is 15 years, 
and at the end of that period a declaration of 
renunciation may be made without the special 
consent of the Belgian Government. The re¬ 
nunciation of Belgian nationality may be made 
before a Belgian diplomatic or consular repre¬ 
sentative in the United States, 
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30. BULGARIA. A national of Bulgaria who 
has been naturalized as a citizen of the United 
States is recognized as an American citizen 
upon his return to the country of his origin, 
subject to any law providing that Bulgarians 
do not lose their nationality by becoming nat¬ 
uralized in another country during a period 
when Bulgaria is at war. Bulgarians who have 
become naturalized as American citizens are 
not, upon returning to Bulgaria, subject to pun¬ 
ishment for the original act of emigration or 
for failure prior to naturalization to respond 
to calls for military service accruing after 
bona fide residence was acquired in American 
territory. If a national of Bulgaria who has 
been naturalized as a citizen of the United 
States shall renew his residence in Bulgaria 
without the intent of returning to the United 
States, he may be held to have renounced his 
naturalization. The intent not to return may 
be held to exist when a person naturalized in 
the United States shall have resided two years 
or more in Bulgaria. 
31. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Under the treaty 
of naturalization between the United States and 
Czechoslovakia it is provided that nationals 
of Czechoslovakia who have been or shall be 
naturalized in the territories of the United 
States shall be held by Czechoslovakia to have 
renounced their former nationality and to be 
nationals of the United States. The foregoing 
provision is not applicable during a time when 
