Father George Hiotis, pastor of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, recently stood before Judge Fred B. Cramer in Hamilton and accepted the citizenship rights he had lost many years ago as a young soldier in the Greek Army. He was born in New York, but in 1916, when he was seven, Father Hiotis was taken to Greece, the home of his grandfather and the birthplace of his parents. He says that he had always planned to return to this country. But in 1929 he reached the age for Greece's compulsory military training, and upon entering the Greek service he lost his status as an American citizen. He found out later that if he had served "under protest," his citizenship rights would have remained intact. But he was never informed of this regulation...

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