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March – April – May 1941 – Exchanges of letters between the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, the Prefecture of Police in Paris and the Resident General in Rabat, concerning the cases of individuals who have requested to receive or retain French nationality.

– Ms Dadoun Habiba, Amar Hassiba, Attias Simone, and Yacoth Poni had each signed a declaration the previous year to acquire the French nationality of their husband. By decree of March 15, 1941, « [their] acquisition of French nationality was refused ». Other people make the same request : Ms. Vve Centanini, Ms. Orellana Cécilia, Ms. Élisa Abad.

– The Minister of Foreign Affairs writes to the Resident General that Mrs. La Sala living in Rabat wishes to know what action has been taken on her request for naturalization and that of her husband. He asks him to inform this lady that no trace of a naturalization application file has been found in his services.

– The Resident General in Rabat writes to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to ask him « if Mr. Isaac Maman […] born in Fez in 1843 […] and died in this same city in 1896 was naturalized French in Oran between 1864 and 1868. This information is necessary for [his] services to enable them to determine whether the law of October 7, 1940 establishing the status of indigenous Jews in the departments of Algeria is applicable, or not, to the descendants of the person concerned who reside in the French zone. in Morocco ». The request is sent to the Minister of Justice. The Resident General later specified that new information gathered would indicate that Mr. Maman had been naturalized by decree of July 24, 1870, and asked for confirmation of the information.

– Letters from the Minister of Justice to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, then from the latter to the Resident General in Rabat concerning the 6-month period to be applied to foreign women married to a Frenchman who request the acquisition of French nationality. It is stated in several legal texts, « and consequently, that foreign women who got married after November 10, 1939, have not yet acquired our nationality… ».

– Handwritten letter from Mme Jeanne Crosaz, nurse at the indigenous hospital in Casablanca, to Marshal Pétain asking him « if [she] is still entitled to consider herself French ». She mentions her marital status, her father’s military service in 1914 and those of her brothers in 1939, her marriage to an Italian, as well as other family and professional information.