NATIONALITY
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"But are you an American citizen?" angrily demanded the official at the passport office.
"My mother was American"—began the applicant.
"Yes, yes"—
"But she married a Frenchman"—
"Yes."
"In Italy."
"Yes; but where were you born?"
"I was born on a ship flying Spanish colors while she was lying at anchor in Honolulu Harbor, but my parents died in Brazil when I was only four years old and I was adopted by a Chinaman, who brought me up in Russia"—
"Well, he's"—began an official.
"He's a bloomin' League of Nations!" exploded the official who had first spoken.