The Bismarck Tribune

Lindbergh Raced Stork to London

London, May 25.-(R) -Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, trapped in the tangle of Coronation day traffic, barely arrived at a London hospital before her third son was born May 12, it was disclosed Tuesday.

The Lindberghs, hurrying from their Kent home to the fashionable maternity hospital, were forced to make a wide detour because most of central London was closed for the royal procession.

The birth of a son to the flier and the former Anne Morrow was made known Tuesday to U. S. embassy officials. After announcing the birth, Colonel Lindbergh retreated into silence, determined to ensure the privacy of his wife and 13-day-old son.

The mother and baby now are convalescing, apparently incognito, in a large and airy suite on the seventh floor of "the clinic" in Harley street.

The hospital is under a special police guard. So is the Lindbergh home, the rambling, walled-in "Long Barn" near Weald, Kent.

The flying colonel is understood to have taken up temporary residence in London with his new baby's only living brother, 4-year-old Jon. The Lindberghs' first-born, Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnaped in 1932 from their Hopewell, N. J., home and slain.

Members of the staff indicated Mrs. Lindbergh was almost ready to take her son home now. It was generally understood that she had entered the hospital as "Mrs. Charles."

As long as he lives, the new born son of Colonel Lindbergh will be regarded as a citizen of both the United States and Great Britain unless he definitely swears allegiance to one or the other.

This is true because of his birth to American parents on British soil.

Authorities on citizenship questions said both countries operate under laws recognizing dual citizenship in such cases. One is known as the "law of blood" under which the country or origin of the parents claims their issue as citizens regardless of what country they may have been born in. The second is known as the "law of the soil" whereby the country of birth claims new born children as citizens regardless of the nationality of their parents.

Thus under American law, the youngest Lindbergh is an American citizen. And under British law he is a British subject. And this dual status is recognized by both nations.

After his disclosure, Lindbergh retreated into hiding from even his closest friends who wished to extend congratulations.

Reports reaching the embassy indicated Mrs. Lindbergh's health as good. The baby's name was not known. The parents have six weeks from the date of birth in which to register the fact in Kent.

Colonel Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh returned home Apr. 9, about a month before the baby's birth, from a 10 weeks' aerial tour of Europe and the east.