CHAP. X11] LEGISLATION FOR THE DOMINIONS 1323 
the Empire ; thus the nationality of a wife is declared to be 
bhat of her husband, and provision is made of universal 
validity as to the status of children who live with a person 
who has become naturalized during childhood. There is, 
however, a great difference between the case of naturalization 
in the United Kingdom and naturalization in a Colony. 
In the first case, the naturalization is valid throughout the 
Empire, in the latter case only in the Colony itself. There 
are such laws in all the Dominions, Canada, Newfound- 
land, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa, 
naturalization in the federations being federal now. 
The position is anomalous and rather absurd. Thus a man 
who is naturalized in a British Colony may be a minister of 
the Crown there, but becomes when he goes outside the 
territory a foreigner. There are several consequences which 
would flow from this position; in the first place, it is held 
that he does not fall under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, so 
that a British naturalized subject in China, formerly in 
Korea, or Siam, or Turkey, or Morocco, would not be subject 
to consular jurisdiction. It would then seem to follow that 
he was subject to the local jurisdiction, but that in turn 
would be intolerable, for clearly he would expect and every 
one would expect that he should receive full protection from 
his adopted country. Yet if the country’s consular Courts 
exercised jurisdiction, he might in England bring an action 
against the consular judge, when next he visited this country, 
and obtain damages for false arrest and so forth. Moreover, 
it is not satisfactory from any point of view to maintain 
this curious localization of British nationality. The objec- 
tion that the declaring of all persons colonially naturalized 
to be full British subjects would open naturalization to many 
unworthy persons is of no weight when it is remembered that 
svery native of Papua is a natural-born British subject, and 
M1 average naturalized person is not at all on a level with 
a native of Papua. Further, the grant of British nationality 
need not carry with it for a moment full civil rights as if he 
Were a natural-born British subject ; such rights are often 
not accorded in the Colonies to naturalized persons without