Executive Order 10587—Administration of Section 32(h) of the Trading With the Enemy Act
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 1 et seq.), and by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code (65 Stat. 713), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
SECTION 1. The Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, a charitable membership organization incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, is hereby designated as successor in interest to deceased persons in accordance with and for the purposes of subsection (h) of section 32 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, as added by Public Law 626, approved August 23, 1954 (68 Stat. 767).
SEC. 2. Exclusive of the function vested in the President by the first sentence of the said subsection (h) of section 32 of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the Attorney General shall carry out the functions provided for in that subsection, including the powers, duties, authority and discretion thereby vested in or conferred upon the President; and functions under the said subsection are hereby delegated to the Attorney General, and the Attorney General is hereby designated thereunder, accordingly.
SEC. 3. The Attorney General may delegate to any officer and agency of the Department of Justice such of his functions under this order as he may deem necessary.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 13, 1955.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10587—Administration of Section 32(h) of the Trading With the Enemy Act Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306893