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Executive Order 10466—Continuing in Effect Certain Appointments as Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers of the Army and of the Air Force

June 30, 1953

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of May 27, 1953, 67 Stat. 38 (Public Law 39, 83d Congress), I hereby continue in effect until the release from active duty of the persons concerned all appointments as commissioned officers and as warrant officers of the Army and of the Air Force of persons on active duty on July 1, 1953, who are determined, as provided in the Missing Persons Act (56 Stat. 143), as amended, to have been in a status of missing, missing in action, interned, captured, beleaguered, or besieged at any time after June 25, 1950, and before the termination of the national emergency proclaimed on December 16, 1950, by Proclamation No. 2914, which were made under the following provisions of law and which would otherwise terminate after June 30, 1953, and before the release from active duty of the persons concerned:

1. Sections 37 and 38 of the act of June 3, 1916, ch. 134, 39 Stat. 189, 190. as amended (10 U.S.C. 358, 32 U.S.C. 19), and section 127a of that act as added by the act of June 4, 1920, ch. 227, 41 Stat. 785, as amended (10 U.S.C. 513).

2. Section 515 (e) of the act of August 7, 1947, ch. 512, 61 Stat. 907 (10 U.S.C. 506d (e)).

3. Section 3 of the act of August 21, 1941, ch. 384, 55 Stat. 652, as amended (10 U.S.C. 591a).

This order shall become effective on July 1, 1953.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 30, 1953.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10466—Continuing in Effect Certain Appointments as Commissioned Officers and Warrant Officers of the Army and of the Air Force Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234444

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