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The Turkish Capitulations 259 has been made by his consent. The British avoid the trouble we have by declaring in writing on the passport of every Turkish sub- ject naturalized in Great Britain that it is not valid on return of the bearer to Turkey.' Until the government of Turkey undergoes important improve- ments, and especially until justice is more impartially administered by her courts, it will not be prudent for the western Powers to make exactly such treaties with her as they may properly make with each other. The difference between the customs and laws of the Mo- hammedan nations on the one hand and those of the Christian nations on the other is so marked that the relations between the two must long be determined by treaties breathing something of the spirit of the old Capitulations. James B. Angell. 1 This is in accordance with the following provision in the British Naturalization Act of 1870. " An alien to whom a certificate of naturalization is granted . . shall not, within the limits of the foreign state of which he was a subject previously to obtaining his certificate of naturalization, be deemed to be a British subject unless he has ceased to be a subject of that state in pursuance of the laws thereof, or in pursuance of a treaty to that efTect."