Public Law 597, 81st Congress, To Provide For the Enlistment Of Aliens In the Regular Army

TOOMAS e 1 [PUBLIC LAW 597-81st CONGRESS] [CHAPTER 443-2D SESSION] [S. 2269] AN ACT To provide for the enlistment of aliens in the Regular Army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Army, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, is author- ized until June 30, 1953, to accept original enlistments or reenlistments in the Regular Army for periods of not less than five years of not to exceed two thousand five hundred qualified unmarried male aliens (without dependents as defined in section 4 of the Act of June 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 361), as amended), who are not less than eighteen years of age or more than thirty-five years of age; and, with the approval of the Secretary of State to accept reenlistment of any such alien upon the expiration of his original term of enlistment for such period or periods as the Secretary of the Army may determine : Provided, That persons enlisted under the provisions of this Act shall be integrated into established units with citizen soldiers and not segregated into separate organizations for aliens. SEC. 2. Provisions of law prohibiting the payment of any person not a citizen of the United States shall neither apply to aliens who enlist in the Regular Army under the provisions of section 1 of this Act nor to their dependents and beneficiaries. (28 Stat., ch. 179, 216; 10 U. S. C. 625), as amended, as reads b. ; and SEC. 3. So much of section 2 of the Act approved August 1894 in time of peace no person (except an Indian) who is not a citizen of the United States or who has not made legal declaration of his inten- tion to become a citizen of the United States, shall be enlisted for the first enlistment in the Army" is hereby suspended until June 30, 1953, with respect to enlistments made under section 1 of this Act. SEC. 4. Notwithstanding the periods set forth therein, the provisions of section 324A of the Nationality Act of 1940, as added by the Act of June 1, 1948 (Public Law 567, Eightieth Congress), are applicable to aliens enlisted or reenlisted pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Any alien enlisted or reenlisted pursuant to the provisions of this Act who subsequently enters the United States or an outlying possession thereof (including the Panama Canal Zone, but excluding the Philip- pine Islands) pursuant to military orders shall, if otherwise qualified for citizenship, and after completion of five or more years of military service, if honorably discharged therefrom, be deemed to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence within the meaning of such section 324A. Approved June 30, 1950.