Many recent comments have been made with respect to the wisdom of Congress in passing the Act of September 22,1922, entitled, “ An act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women, ” commonly known as the Cable Act, and which granted a form of independent citizenship to women.1 Among these comments we find the phrase, “ probably accidental reasons,” and an expressed sentiment that it is “ questionable whether the majority of the women of this country really wanted the new law, ” and simi- ‘lar suggestions. It has been intimated that the law was passed solely as the result of the persuasive efforts of a minority of women.2 In many instances little cognizance has been taken of the reasons for, and the actual facts involved in, the change.

The Immigration Act of 1924 is a novel piece of legislation in two respects.1 In it, for the first time, is a real attempt made to control immigration,measurably at least, at its source, and thus to reduce to a minimum the hardships and inhumanities that heretofore have prevailed to such an extent as almost to be regarded as a matter of course. And in it, for the first time also, are immigration and eligibility to citizenship recognized as related subjects, and ineligibility to become naturalized made a reason for the exclusion of aliens.2 While it is by far the most drastic immigration statute ever passed by the United States Congress,, it is in numerous respects the most humane measure yet devised.

On Friday, July 18, 1924, during a religious ceremony, Major Robert Imbrie, American vice–consul at Teheran, was attacked and done to death by a fanatical mob that misunderstood or resented his presence. The outrage was peculiarly atrocious in that the mob after severely wounding Consul Imbrie pursued him into the operating-room of the hospital where he had been taken for relief and there pounded him to death.