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Proclamation 2674—Revoking Certain Regulations Relating to the Control of Alien Enemies

December 07, 1945


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas by Proclamation No. 2525 of December 7, 1941, and Proclamations Nos. 2526 and 2527 of December 8, 1941, the President prescribed and proclaimed regulations relating to the control of alien enemies; and

Whereas the interests of the national defense and public safety no longer require that certain of such regulations remain in force and effect:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and by sections 21, 22, 23, and 24 of title 50 of the United States Code, do proclaim that Regulations (5), (6), (10), and (11), relating to the possession of certain prohibited articles by and the travel of alien enemies, prescribed and proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2525 of December 7, 1941, and incorporated by reference into Proclamations Nos. 2526 and 2527 of December 8, 1941, are hereby revoked. All other provisions of the aforesaid proclamations shall remain in full force and effect.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this 7th day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth.

Signature of Harry S. Truman

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

JAMES F. BYRNES,

Secretary of State.

Harry S Truman, Proclamation 2674—Revoking Certain Regulations Relating to the Control of Alien Enemies Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287797

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