Position of the Alien Soldier 256 Revolutionary Legislative Action 258 Citizens at Heart, but “Enemy Aliens” 260 All Safeguards Abandoned 263 All Race Restrictions Removed 265 Ordinary Naturalization Disputed 265 Statistics of Alien Registration 267 Aliens and Military Service 269 Foreign Born Eager to Serve 272 Austrians Who Were Not for Austria 274 There Was Human War-time Psychology 275 Diplomatic Requests for Exemption 276 Reciprocal Conscription Among Cobelligerents 278 Of German Descent, but Loyal Americans 278 Desertion, Among Aliens and Citizens 279 War’s Test of “the Melting-pot” 281 An Old Practice with a New Significance 282 What Some Judges Thought of It 283 Here Was “Attachment to Our Principles”! 285 Assimilating the Enemies of Tyranny 287 Episodes of Military Naturalization 288 Those Who Went Without Citizenship 292 A Great Composite Record of Loyalty 294 X. THE FOREIGN-BORN WOMAN, HER HOME AND HER CHILDREN, IN AMERICAN POLITICS 296