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Executive Order 9652—Authorizing the Appointment of Certain Personnel in the Department of State

October 31, 1945

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States and section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Subject to such noncompetitive tests of fitness as the Civil Service Commission may prescribe, and under the provisions of the War Service Regulations of the Civil Service Commission, the Secretary of State may appoint, upon their release from active military duty, for civilian service in the Department of State in connection with the following-described activities. (1) any of the military personnel who were on September 30, 1945, engaged on work in connection with the activities transferred to the Secretary of State by paragraph 1 of Executive Order No. 9621 of September 20, 1945, and (2) any of the military personnel who shall hereafter be released from active military duty while engaged on work in connection with the activities transferred to the Department of State by paragraph 7 of Executive Order No. 9630 of September 27, 1945.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 31, 1945

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 9652—Authorizing the Appointment of Certain Personnel in the Department of State Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/231345

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