Show AMERICA A3D ITALtf 5 Why Proposed Extradition nnd Nat rali7titon Treaties Fell Through V a Washington D C JVprll 17An itt V tampt Tvas made last year as disclosed S in the diplomatic correspondence of the a tate department to negotiate treaties 0 of xtraditJon and naturalization between be-tween the TJnlti l States and Italy SoL So-L farliwevef the effort has proven futile I a fu-tile mainly because of the radical differ a I ence tlierlegal system f > t the twj > countries coun-tries The insurnxSuntable obstacle in the cise of an extradition treaty was V the inbibtance by Italyupon exemption from extradltloii orltaiians who might commit crimes in America and then return re-turn to Italy which Secretary Gresham held would defeat the main purpose of the treaty In the case of the proposed naturalization treaty the objections made by our government were to the Italian contention that former Italian subjects returning to Italy although naturalized In the United States could not claim exemption from military service ser-vice Then the Italian government proposed pro-posed that naturalization would be conferred con-ferred only upon persons who applied therefor and this was also rejected by Secretary Gresham on the ground that it would exclude Italian women married to Americans and minor children of naturalized nat-uralized Italians who by our law become be-come American citizens |