Murakami, once a Nisei citizen of the United States, appeals from a judgment of the district court dismissing his complaint brought under 8 U.S.C. § 903 for a decree setting aside his renunciation of United States citizenship, adjudging he is a citizen or national of the United States and that he, coming to the United States solely to prosecute his suit, be given a passport to enter here. The court ordered that he be returned to Japan.

Murakami contends that the evidence does not support the findings of the district court, the principal finding so attacked being:

An agreed statement of facts showed the conditions prevailing at the Tule Lake Relocation Center to be as fully described in our opinion deciding the case of Acheson v. Murakami, 9 Cir., 176 F.2d 953 , which decision the government accepted. Violent pro-Japanese detainees beat up and knife slashed others who they thought were friendly to the United States, and at least one was murdered. Murakami testified to the court, which thus had him under observation through 83 pages of testimony, that he had renounced his United States citizenship under the same fear and coercion which we held in the earlier case of another Mura-kami, a woman, justified its restoration.

However, unlike that case, it also appeared in the agreed statement of facts that before he was transferred to the Tule Lake Center and while at the Pos-ton Relocation Center he “executed Selective Service System DSS 304A ‘Statement of U. S. Citizen of Japanese Ancestry’, wherein plaintiff expressed his refusal to serve in the armed forces of

the United States on combat duty where-ever ordered, and refused to swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and to faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, or to forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese Emperor or any other foreign government, power, or organization.”

We are unable to say that the district court’s finding which, in effect, is that it refused to believe Murakami’s testimony, which the court heard, is clearly erroneous.

Murakami claims that the following statement in the district court’s opinion showed it applied a wrong principle in considering the testimony and the agreed facts.

The above quoted finding 23 makes clear that the setting up of the “two matters” was for the purpose of excusing Murakami’s renunciation of citizenship and that they were “insufficient” in view of his other statements and the refusal of the court to believe his testimony.

Nor is there merit in Murakami’s contention that the court erred in denying his motion that the court dismiss the action without prejudice made under F.R.C.P. 41(a) (2), 28 U.S.C.A., providing :

The motion was served on the defendant on NDvember 20, 1952 and filed the same day. On the previous January 19, 1952, the pre-trial proceedings covering 50 pages of agreed statement of facts, including the exhibits of the defendant, the plaintiff and defendant’s contentions, and the issues of law and fact had been concluded, and all the plaintiff’s trial testimony had been given and the plaintiff’s case finished. Nothing remained but the introduction of the defendant’s exhibits with which the plaintiff was familiar.

Plaintiif’s ten months study of the case evidently indicated to him that he was likely to lose it. He thought he had a better chance if he were again to proceed before the State Department, urge the applicability of the first Murakami decision, and obtain an administrative ruling to set aside his renunciation of his citizenship and allow him to remain in the United States. Obviously since the earlier Murakami case was decided in 1949, he could have sought his administrative remedy first without causing the government the effort and expense of the instant case.

Clearly the court did not think here was a “technical failure of proof [and] there is nevertheless a meritorious claim,” the latter a ground for voluntary dismissal in the Report of Proposed Amendments to Rules of. Civil Procedure (1946) 64. Here the eoj}r.t:ihaught'there.’ was no meritorious' case.' ¥e concur in fully reasoned opinion of the Third Circuit, Ockert v. Union Barge Line Corp., 3 Cir., 190 F.2d 303, 304 , with its full citation of supporting cases, that the district court here had the judicial discretion to deny the motion to dismiss the case. Cf. United States v. Pacific Fruit & Produce Co., 9 Cir., 138 F.2d 367 .

The judgment is affirmed.

. Now 8 U.S.C.A. § 1503 .