Ponce

This is a case under section 503 of the Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 903 , wherein the complainant prays to have his cancelled citizenship restored.

Plaintiff was born at San Pedro, California, March 10, 1926, of Mexican parents who were married in the United States and had resided in California for a number of years. At the age of three or thereabouts his father, who claimed to have served on American ships and in the Army of the United States following World War I, *24 took his family on a visit to Mexico intending to return to California in a few months but, so he testified under oath in 1949, lost his identification papers and was unable to get back except on temporary Mexican passports.

Plaintiff remained with his parents at various places in Mexico, living in environments of ignorance, poverty, and sickness until he was twenty years of age, and received schooling equivalent only to the third grade. The family of seven or eight lived in a two-room house most of the time, and he and his sister, Maria, testified that' they had no electricity, telephone, radio, or newspaper in their home. He never heard radio until 1946.

In 1946, through the help of .an aunt residing in…