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crew is a subject of the State where the ship lies,
its fla» does not alter his nationality nor his
consequent liability to the laws of his natural
Sovereign.
If a French criminal were found among the
crew of a foreign merchant-ship in a Erench port,
the jurisdiction of the Prench authorities to arrest
and try him would be internationally indis
putable.
There is also a further risk of confusion from
the somewhat equivocal meaning of the word
" prot^g^.'* During the many controversies which
have arisen as to prot^g^s in the Mediterranean,
there was until recent years, no question of Pro
tectorates in the modern sense of that term.
European Powers in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. protected many
non-subjects, but this exercise of protection
rested on arrangement with the Porte, and not
Had it absorbed on an y territorial Protectorate. At the time of the
AigwiaP—Yes, in Treaty with Muscat Prance had no territorial
Protectorates, and the policy of Protectorates is
of modern origin, not receiving international
acceptance until the Berlin Act. Since 1880,
Prance has acquired many Protectorates and
spheres of influence in Africa, The status of
occupants of such territories has not yet been
settled by international consensus. But inas
much as the existence of a Protectorate puts the
foreign relations of the protected States into the
hands of France, it is easy to admit that subjects
of the potentates who have admitted a Protec
torate should, in foreign countries, be given the
position of French citizens, although they may
not acquire full civic rights in France itself.
But it does not follow from this concession that
natives of other countries who resided in the
Protectorates when established as natives of the
Protectorate who had ceased to reside in them
before the establishment are in any way brought
under allegiance to France or acquire any title
to protection by France as against their natural
Sovereign or the Sovereign of the State in which
they have settled.
Still less does it follow that, because a foreigner
chooses to go into a French Colony or Protec
torate and build a house or declare that he shall
domicile there, France may at once naturalize him
without the assent of his Sovereign or on the
strength of his domicile give him papers consti
tuting him a French protege in his own native
country. A foreign settler in a Protectorate is
1837. See
Hertslet, Africa
bj Treaty, 287.
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