But may such persons be, for good reasons, arrested, or otherwise prevented from leaving the country, as Germans were prevented from leaving France in the earlier days of the Franco-Prussian War?
Holland questions whether enemy aliens can be arrested or prevented from leaving the country during wartime.
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