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Executive Order 10617—Suspension of the Operation of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 Applicable to the Retirement of Colonels of the Regular Army

June 28, 1955

By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 906), it is ordered as follows:

The operation of those provisions of paragraph 3, subsection (d), section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 which are applicable to the mandatory retirement of colonels of the Regular Army is hereby suspended until termination of the emergency proclaimed by Proclamation No. 2914 of December 16, 1950, or until June 30, 1957, or until a date specified by the Secretary of the Army, whichever is earliest, with respect to any colonel of the Regular Army who holds a temporary grade higher than that of colonel and whom the Secretary of the Army, in his discretion, selects for retention on the active list in the public interest.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 28, 1955.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10617—Suspension of the Operation of Certain Provisions of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 Applicable to the Retirement of Colonels of the Regular Army Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/234395

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