Regulations governing the classification of aliens in the registration for selective service which is to take place on Sunday and Monday were made public here today. They clarify the status of aliens in the draft and also indicate that alien physicians, dentists and veterinarians under 45 years of age may be drafted unless local boards decide that it is best for the national interests that they continue to practice their professions.
The regulations, copies of which have been sent to local Selective Service boards throughout the country, divide the aliens into “non-declarant” and “declarant” categories. All able-bodied declarant aliens from neutral countries are to be placed in class 1-A by the local boards if they do not have any other grounds for deferment, the regulations provide. The text of the regulations read:
“All non-declarant aliens (those who have not applied for United States citizenship) shall be placed in Class 4-C (lowest classification). Aliens who are citizens or subjects of Germany, Italy and Japan, declarant or non-declarant, shall be placed in Class 4-C. Austria is not a part of Germany, but is considered a neutral.
LIST OF ENEMY, NEUTRAL, AND CO-BELLIGERENT NATIONS PUBLISHED
“Declarant aliens from countries at war with the Axis (co-belligerents) shall be placed in Class 1-A, if they do not have other grounds for deferment. Such aliens do not have the right to file Form 301 (waiver of right to serve in the Army of the United States, thereby forfeiting the right to apply for citizenship.)
“Declarant aliens from neutral countries shall be placed in class 1-A, unless they have other grounds for deferment. However, declarant aliens who are subjects of neutral countries have the right to file form 301. If they do, they shall be placed in class 4-C.
“Herewith is a list of nations with which local boards are most commonly concerned, stating whether they are enemy, neutral or co-belligerents: Albania, neutral; Austria, neutral; Belgium, co-belligerent; Bulgaria, neutral; Czechoslovakia, neutral; Denmark, neutral; England and the British Dominions, co-belligerents; Esthonia, neutral; Finland, neutral; France, neutral; Germany, enemy; Greece, co-belligerent; Holland, co-belligerent; Ireland (Eire), neutral; Italy, enemy; Japan, enemy; Latvia, neutral; Lithuania, neutral; Norway, co-belligerent; Poland, co-belligerent; Portugal, neutral; Rumania, neutral; Russia, co-belligerent; Spain, neutral; Sweden, neutral; Switzerland, neutral; Yugoslavia, co-belligerent.”
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