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Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Extending the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.

May 09, 1945

I AM reluctantly giving my approval to this legislation. I do not wish this approval to be interpreted as expressing my concurrence in Section 2 of the Bill, which places added restrictions on the War and Navy Departments in their management of the fighting forces. I sign the legislation only because the immediate extension of the Selective Service Act is of compelling necessity in the continuance of military operations against Japan.

Note: As enacted, the bill extending the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is Public Law 54, 79th Congress (59 Stat. 166).

Harry S. Truman, Statement by the President Upon Signing Bill Extending the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/233545

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