Mr. Warburg—“I had no definite intentions then, because some of the reasons that brought me over here were family reasons;.... That had a good deal to do with my first coming here; and I was not sure at all that I would stay here when I came.”
Senator Bristow—“When did you decide to become a citizen of the United States?”
Mr. Warburg—“In 1908, when I took out my papers.”
Senator Bristow—“When you took out your first papers? You took out your second papers, then, in 1911?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“You made your declaration in 1908; that is when you decided to become an American citizen?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“Why did you wait as long as you did after you came to this country, before deciding to become a citizen of this country?”
Mr. Warburg—“I think that a man that does not come here as an immigrant; a man who has had, if you may call it such, a prominent position in his own country, will not give up his nationality so easily as a man who comes over here knowing that he does not care for his own country at all. I had been a very loyal citizen of my own country; and I think that a man who hesitates in giving up his own nationality and taking a new one, is apt to be more loyal to his new country when he does change his nationality than a man who gives up his old country more lightly.”
Senator Bristow—“Yes.”