Executive Order 9596—Revoking Executive Order No. 9528 Which Provides a Change in the Order of Succession of Officers to Act as Secretary of the Navy

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, approved December 18, 1941 (55 Stat. 838), and other applicable statutes, and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy o the United States and as President of the United States, Executive Order No. 9528 of March 2, 1945, providing for a change in the order of succession of officers to act as Secretary of the Navy, is hereby revoked.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 13, 1945