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Show Selective Service REGISTRANT'S RIGHT TO APPEAL Every registrant is entitled to appeal from any classification by his local board and no one has the right t0 deny him that privilege, priv-ilege, Major H. Arnold Rich Acting Act-ing State Director of Selective Service, declared today. In all cases local boards and government appeal agents must make every effort to insure protection pro-tection of the registrant's right of appeal regardless of whether or not they think the appeal is justified, he asserted. Any registrant who is dissatisfied dissat-isfied with a determination of his local board may appeal tho decision to the board of appeals and no one has legal power to interfere with his efforts t0 get a review of his case, the Director Direc-tor said. Citing Selective Service Regulations Reg-ulations relating to appeals, the Director pointed out that a registrant, reg-istrant, any person who claims to be a dependent of a registrant, or any person who has filed written writ-ten evidence of the occupational necessity of the registrant may appeal from any local board classification. clas-sification. The regulations also provide, he said, that appeals may be taken tak-en by a government appeal agent for his local board area, a State Director of Selective Service for any localffcoard area in his ''tatc, and the Director of Selective Service. Ser-vice. Pointing out that the registrant or his dependents must appeal within 10 days after mailing of the registrant's notice of classification classi-fication (unless the time has been extended), the Director outlined the provision of the Regulations on how an appeal is taken as follows: fol-lows: "Any person entitled to d0 so may appeal in any of the following follow-ing ways: 1. By filing with the local board a written notice of appeal. Such notice need not be in any particular form but must state the name of the registrant and the name and identity of the person per-son appealing so as to show the right of appeal. 2. By signing the 'Appeal to Board of Appeal' 0n the Questionnaire Ques-tionnaire (Form 40)." The person appealing may attach at-tach t0 his notice of appeal, or to his questionnaire, a statement specifying the respects in which he believes the local board erred; may direct attention to any information in-formation in the registrant's file which he believes the local board has failed to consider of give sufficient suf-ficient weight; and may set out In full any evidence which was offered to the local board anil which the local board failed or refused to include in the resis-trac.l's resis-trac.l's file. Acting Director Rich emi-'hasiied. NeHner regisl rant's nor representatives repres-entatives of the system are permitted per-mitted to appeal before boards (f appeal, hovtver, the Director said. REGISTRANT'S ELECTION OF NATIONALITY In the present wars on the continents con-tinents of Europe, Asia, and Africa certain nations have as- sumed doinion over others by suc- J"' cessful military conquest, poace- ful occupation by force, invited protective occupation, or by other oth-er means. It has been observed that many registrants in answering answer-ing questions concerning their nationality have given the nationality nation-ality of the nation which has occupied oc-cupied or conquered their native country. As example, a Czech filling fill-ing out his questionnair since the conquest and domination of his country by Germany might give his nationality as German. Registrants will be permitted to state their nationality as of the country of their nativity without with-out regard for the fact that, as consequence of the present wars, such country has been annexed. occupied, or is dominated by another an-other country either through armed arm-ed force, conquest or forced or invited peaceful means. Registrants Regis-trants who ave previously given their nationality as that of the dominating of occupying country coun-try rather than that of their sub-jurated sub-jurated native country may. upon their request, be permittd to amend their records as to nationality. nat-ionality. The provisions of this memorandum memo-randum shall apply to the natives , of Austria although the Gorman annexation of Austria was officially offic-ially recognized by the Government Govern-ment of the United States. |