Proclamation 2179—Export of Arms, Ammunition, and Implements of War to Ethiopia and Italy

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

Whereas by my proclamation of February 29, 1936, issued pursuant to section 1 of the joint resolution of Congress approved on the same date, extending and amending the joint resolution of Congress approved August 31, 1935, I proclaimed that a state of war unhappily continued to exist between Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Italy,

And Whereas all citizens of the United States or any of its possessions and all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States or its possessions were thereby admonished to abstain from every violation of the provisions of the joint resolution, made effective and applicable by that proclamation to the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war from any place in the United States or its possessions to Ethiopia or to the Kingdom of Italy, or to any Italian possession, or to any neutral port for transshipment to, or for the use of, Ethiopia or the Kingdom of Italy,

And Whereas section 1 of the aforesaid joint resolution of Congress approved August 31, 1935, as extended and amended by the aforesaid joint resolution of Congress of February 29, 1936, provides in part as follows:

When in the judgment of the President the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to exist he shall revoke the same and the provisions hereof shall thereupon cease to apply,

And Whereas the conditions which caused me to issue my aforesaid proclamation of February 29, 1936, have ceased to exist,

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do hereby revoke the aforesaid proclamation of February 29, 1936.

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 20th day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtieth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State.