80TH CONGRESS 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 1512 SARAH JANE SANFORD PANSA MARCH 5, 1948 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Mr. FELLOWS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 1724] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 1724), to legalize the admission to the United States of Sarah Jane Sanford Pansa, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendments and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of the bill is to record the admission for permanent residence in the United States of Mrs. Sarah Jane Sanford Pansa, who was a native-born citizen of the United States. The bill also provides for the proper quota deduction. GENERAL INFORMATION The pertinent facts in this case are set forth in a letter from the Acting The Assistant to the Attorney General, dated August 27, 1947, to the chairman of the committee, which letter reads as follows: Hon. EARL C. MICHENER, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, AUGUST 27, 1947. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice concerning the bill (H. R. 1724) for the relief of Sarah Jane Sanford Pansa. This bill would direct the Attorney General to record the entry into the United States of Sarah Jane Sanford Pansa at New York on November 30, 1946, as a lawful admission to the United States for permanent residence, and would further provide for the proper quota deduction. The beneficiary of this bill was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., on November 8, 1900, and was, therefore, a natural-born citizen of the United States. On February 3, 1937, she was married at Palm Beach, Fla., to Count Mario Pansa, of the Italian consular service. She states that following her marriage she took Mrs. an oath of allegiance to Italy in order to obtain the consent of the Italian Government to the marriage. Her husband was then first secretary to the Italian legation and a member of the Italian Fascist Party. The laws of Italy required her to be a citizen of that country in order to marry such an official. Pansa denies membership in the Fascist Party. Following her marriage she resided in various countries in Europe, including Belgium, Hungary, and Italy, with occasional visits to the United States. She resided in Italy during World War II from September 1940 until March 1946, when she returned to the United States on an Italian diplomatic passport. Her husband died near Rome in July 1946. According to Mrs. Pansa's statement, she maintains herself in the United States upon an allowance which she receives as the beneficiary of certain family trusts, the funds of which are controlled under license of the United States Treasury. Investigation discloses that Mrs. Pansa is a person of good moral character. Whether this bill should be enacted involves a question of legislative policy concerning which this Department has no suggestion to offer. The Director of the Bureau of the Budget has advised that there is no objection to the submission of this report. Sincerely yours, HAROLD I. BAYNTON, Acting the Assistant to the Attorney General. Mr. Andrews of New York, the author of the bill, submitted to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization the following additional information: Mrs. Mario Pansa (nee Sarah Jane Sanford) was born on November 8, 1900, in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N. Y., the daughter of John Sanford and the sister of Stephen Sanford and Gertrude Sanford Legendre. In February 1937, she was married in Palm Beach, Fla. to Mario Pansa, a subject of the Kingdom of Italy and a career member of the Foreign Service of the Italian Diplomatic Corps. It appears that under Italian law in effect at that time the marriage of Italian diplomatic officers to aliens was forbidden. In order to effect the marriage, Mrs. Pansa took an oath of allegiance to the Italian Government before the Italian Consul general in New York City on February 24, 1937. Under the law of the United States in effect at that time (sec. 2, 34 Stat. 1228; 8 U. S. C. 17; now substantially embraced in sec. 401, 54 Stat. 1168; 8 U. S. C. 801 b), it was provided that one who declared allegiance to a foreign state would lose his nationality. In April 1937, Mr. Pansa was assigned to the Italian Embassy in Belgium, where Mr. and Mrs. Pansa remained until April 1940, when Mr. Pansa's assignment was changed to Budapest, Hungary. In September 1940, Mr. Pansa was recalled to Rome and shifted from the Foreign Service to a position in the Foreign Office in Rome. Mrs. Pansa accompanied her husband to Rome and consequently remained in Italy throughout the war. She returned to the United States on March 22, 1946, arriving at Norfolk, Va., aboard the steamship Joel Palmer, bearing an Italian diplomatic passport, with a United States visa permitting her to say in this country for 1 year. Mr. Pansa remained in Italy awaiting reassignment in the Diplomatic Corps. Being a career diplomat, Mr. Pansa was not subjected to any criticism by the postwar Italian Government on account of his necessary connection with the Fascist Government of Italy during the prewar and war years and was recognized as a diplomatic officer in good standing who was shortly to be assigned, it is believed, to an important diplomatic post in South America. Mr. Pansa met his death accidentally by drowning while swimming near Rome, Italy, on July 7, 1946, at which time Mrs. Pansa was still in the United States. She departed from the United States for Rome on July 12, 1946, on an emergency visit for the purpose of attending to the personal affairs of her husband. Having concluded these affairs, Mrs. Pansa caused all of her personal effects, household furnishings, etc., to be shipped to the United States, and returned to this country, arriving at the port of New York on November 30, 1946, aboard the steamship America, still traveling on the same Italian diplomatic passport and American visa, the latter being valid until February 19, 1947. During this temporary visit to Italy, Mrs. Pansa made diligent efforts to secure a place on the Italian immigration quota, but was unable to do so, due to the fact that the quota was heavily oversubscribed. Her efforts while in this country both before and after her temporary visit to Italy to accomplish the same result have been equally unavailing, and for the same reason. When Mrs. Pansa returned to the United States on November 30, 1946, it was her intention that her entry would be for permanent residence in the United States. All of her ties with Italy have been severed and she desires to reside permanently in this country and to reacquire her United States citizenship. She derives her support in the United States from funds accruing to her as beneficiary of certain family trust established by her father, the late John Sanford, and enjoys the status of a generally licensed national under Treasury license No. NY-826116T, dated January 13, 1947. Mrs. Pansa's two entries into the United States on March 22 and November 30, 1946, respectively, were both lawful entries, as she was traveling on both occasions under a valid Italian diplomatic passport and United States visa. Inasmuch as it was, at the time she made her entry on November 30, 1946, her intention that such entry would be for permanent residence by her in the United States, she requests that said entry be recorded by the Attorney General as an entry for permanent residence for the purposes of the immigration and naturalization laws. о 80TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session PAUL BOULANGER { REPORT No. 1513 MARCH 5, 1948.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed Mr. FELLOWS, from the Committee on the Judiciary, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 2152] The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 2152) for the relief of Paul Boulanger, having considered the same report favorably thereon and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of the bill is to grant admission for permanent residence in the United States to Paul Boulanger, a native and citizen of France. GENERAL INFORMATION The pertinent facts in this case are set forth in a letter from the Acting the Assistant to the Attorney General, dated December 16, 1947, to the chairman of the committee, which letter reads as follows: DECEMBER 16, 1947. Hon. EARL C. MICHENER, Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. MY DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: This is in response to your request for the views of the Department of Justice concerning a bill (H. R. 2152) for the relief of Paul Boulanger, an alien. The bill would provide that, upon the payment of the required head tax, Paul Boulanger shall be considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States and would further provide that the Secretary of State shall deduct one number from the French quota of the first year that such quota is available. The files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service of this Department disclose that Paul Henri Louis Boulanger is a native and citizen of France, having been born in that country on January 7, 1914. He last entered the United States at the port of New York on May 29, 1944, when he was admitted as a member of the crew of a ship. When the war began he was working as a trucking contractor for the French Government. During the German invasion of France a bomb exploded in front of the truck which he was driving, shattering the windshield and causing the loss of his right eye. Shortly thereafter he joined the "under |