BRIGHT, District Judge.
The relator, taken into custody on December 17, 1941, as a German enemy alien, pursuant to section 21 of Title 50 U.S.C.A. and the President's proclamation issued thereunder, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus to determine the legality of his restraint.
Section 21 provides, so far as material, that "Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion...
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