Docket No. 207.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
on behalf of
Frederick J. Pickard,
Claimant,
v.
GERMANY.
BY THE COMMISSION: –
It is claimed on behalf of Frederick J. Pickard that when the Lusitania, upon which he was a passenger, was torpedoed on May 7, 1915, he sustained personal injuries and lost personal effects. At that time he was a British subject, but through naturalization he became an American national on June 14, 1918. Under the decision of this Commission embodied in its Administrative Decision No. V this claim is not impressed with the requisite American nationality to bring it within the terms of the Treaty of Berlin.
Applying the rules heretofore announced in the Lusitania Opinion, in Administrative Decision No. V, and in the other decisions of this Commission to the facts as disclosed by this record, the Commission decrees that under the Treaty of Berlin of August 25, 1921, and in accordance with its terms the Government of Germany is not obligated to pay to the Government of the United States any amount on behalf of the claimant herein.
Done at Washington January 7, 1925.
EDWIN B. PARKER,
Umpire.
CHANDLER P. ANDERSON,
American Commissioner.
W. KIESSELBACH,
German Commissioner.
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