Stephanie faces arrest because she won't leave USA

January 13, 1941

Princess Stephanie zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst has been served a deportation warrant from the Justice Department today.  The warrant was served in Palo Alto, California, according to the AP.

In December 1939. the princess entered the United States on a Hungarian passport.  She was granted one extension of her visitor's visa, but a second extension was denied.  She had agreed to leave the United States last Saturday, but on January 6, she notified immigration officials "that she was suffering from a nervous condition and was unable to travel."

Two officials from the  United States public health service visited the princess and certified that she was "suffering from 'hysteria,' and was too ill to travel."  

 
The Justice Department determined that Stephanie's own doctor told immigration officials that the princess had obtained and was taking sedatives "which had not been prescribed, and this was largely responsible for her physical and medical condition."  he added that she "would continue in that condition" as long as "continues to take the sedatives."

Princess Stephanie will be arraigned on Friday at the immigration office in San Francisco.  Bail was set  $25,000,

The Princess released a statement through her attorney, saying that she was anti-Nazi, pro-British and pro-American."  

 
When informed of her statement that she was pro-British, a spokesman for the British consulate in San Francisco said:  "We are not aware that the Princess has paid us any diplomatic or social calls, nor has she in any way expressed a desire to help our cause."

A spokesman for the German consulate said that the Princess had been merely a guest of Fritz Wiedemann, the German Consul General in San Francisco, but he had not seen her since December 26.

"The Princess is a subject of Hungary.  She is not a German national, and this office is not concerned."