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(EO See World War II dead, return from overseas; Subtitle B-Presidential Documents CHAPTER I-PROCLAMATIONS PROCLAMATION 2715 IMPOSING QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF SHORT HARSH OR ROUGH COTTON WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 750, 773, as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936, 49 Stat. 1148, 1152, and as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246 (7 U. S. C. 624), the President issued a proclamation on September 5, 1939 (No. 2351,1 54 Stat. 2640), limiting the quantities of certain cotton and cotton waste which might be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which proclamation was suspended in part by the President's proclamations of December 19, 1940 (No. 2450,1 54 Stat. 2769), March 31, 1942 (No. 2544,' 56 Stat. 1944), and June 29, 1942 (No. 2560,1 56 Stat. 1963); and WHEREAS, the said proclamation of September 5, 1939, excepted from the quota limitations specified therein harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length and chiefly used in the manufacture of blankets and blanketing; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the said section 22, as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 17), the United States Tariff Commission has made a supplemental investigation to determine whether changed circumstances require the modification of the President's proclamation of September 5, 1939, with respect to harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than threefourths of one inch in length, in order to carry out the purposes of the said section 22, and to determine whether such cotton is being or is practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with any program or operation undertaken, or to reduce substantially the amount of 13 CFR, Cum. Supp. any product processed in the United States from cotton subject to and with respect to which any program is in operation under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590a-590q), or section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended (7 U. S. C. 612c); and WHEREAS, in the course of the investigation, after due notice, a public hearing was held on October 14 and 15, 1946, at which parties interested were given opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard, and, in addition to the hearing, the Commission made such investigation as it deemed necessary for a full disclosure and presentation of the facts; and WHEREAS, the Commission has made findings of fact and has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, together with a transcript of the evidence submitted at the hearing, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agriculture: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of the investigation and report of the Tariff Commission, that changed circumstances require the modification of the President's proclamation of September 5, 1939, with respect to harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length, to carry out the purposes of section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, and that such cotton is being imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective the domestic cotton programs undertaken under section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended. Accordingly, pursuant to the said section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended, I hereby modify the President's proclamation of September 5, 1939 (No. 2351) by deleting therefrom the words "and chiefly used in the manufacture of blankets and blanketing" wherever they. appear therein; and I do hereby proclaim that the total quantity of harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, in the year commencing September 20, 1946, and in any subsequent year commencing September 20, shall not exceed 70 million pounds, which quantity I hereby find and declare shown by the investigation to be necessary to prescribe in order that the entry of such cotton will not tend to render ineffective the programs undertaken with respect to cotton under section 32 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 774, as amended. I further find and declare that the total quantity of harsh or rough cotton having a staple of less than three-fourths of one inch in length which is permitted entry hereunder, is not less than the minimum permissible quantity computed under the proviso to section 22 (b) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended. 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 first day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. By the President: G. C. MARSHALL, HARRY S. TRUMAN Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2716 RED CROSS MONTH, 1947 WHEREAS the American National Red Cross, traditional friend and counselor of the serviceman and the veteran, furnishes comfort and renewed hope to our sick and wounded in hospitals and provides morale-building welfare and recreational facilities for our occupation forces abroad as well as a wide range of services to those returning to civilian life in this country; and WHEREAS the Red Cross, chartered by Congress and equipped by experience to cope with human needs when disaster strikes, performs its errands of mercy with skill and expedition; and WHEREAS the Red Cross is devoting increased attention to its home-nursing and first-aid programs which are designed through training courses to check the spread of disease and to reduce the frightful toll of accidents; and WHEREAS this organization is entirely dependent upon the voluntary contributions of the people of the United States in rendering these services, and has estimated that a minimum fund of $60,000,000 will be necessary for the implementation of its philanthropic program in 1947: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America and President of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate and proclaim the month of March 1947 as Red Cross Month and urge every citizen of this country to respond generously to this essential, humanitarian ENUMERATION OF ARMS, AMMUNITION, AND IMPLEMENTS OF WAR WHEREAS section 12 (1) of the joint resolution of Congress approved November 4, 1939, provides in part as follows (54 Stat. 11; 22 U. S. C. 452 (i)): The President is hereby authorized to proclaim upon recommendation of the [National Munitions Control] Board from time to time a list of articles which shall be considered arms, ammunition, and implements of war for the purposes of this section ・・・ NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by 4 the said joint resolution of Congress, and pursuant to the recommendation of the National Munitions Control Board, and in the interest of the foreign-affairs functions of the United States, hereby declare and proclaim that the articles listed below shall, on and after February 20, 1947, be considered arms, ammunition, and implements of war for the purposes of section 12 of the said joint resolution of Congress:1 CATEGORY I (1) Rifles and carbines using ammunition in excess of caliber .22, and barrels for those weapons; (2) Machine guns, automatic or autoloading rifles, and machine pistols using ammunition in excess of caliber .22, and barrels for those weapons; machine-gun mounts: (3) Guns, howitzers, and mortars of all calibers, their mountings and barrels; (4) Ammunition in excess of caliber .22 for the arms enumerated under (1), (2), and (3) above, and cartridge cases or bullets for such ammunition; shells and projectiles, filled or unfilled, for the arms enumerated under (3) above; (5) Grenades, bombs, torpedoes, mines and depth charges, filled or unfilled, and apparatus for their use or discharge; (6) Tanks, military armored vehicles, and armored trains; armor plate and turrets for such vehicles. CATEGORY II Vessels of war of all kinds, including aircraft carriers and submarines, and armor plate and turrets for such vessels. CATEGORY III (1) Aircraft (piloted), both heavier and lighter than air, unassembled, assembled or dismantled: (a) classified from the standpoint of military security; or (b) especially designed for warlike purposes; or (c) having a weight empty greater than 35,000 pounds; (2) Non-piloted aircraft and guided missiles, unassembled, assembled or dismantled; (3) Any part, component, accessory, or device, of or pertaining to an aircraft either heavier or lighter than air, whether shipped alone or in an unassembled or assembled aircraft: (a) which is classified from the standpoint of military security; or (b) which (1) is not in general use in commercial aircraft and (2) is either especially designed for warlike purposes or adaptable substantially to increase the efficiency or performance of aircraft used for warlike purposes. CATEGORY IV (1) Revolvers and automatic pistols using ammunition in excess of caliber .22; (2) Ammunition in excess of caliber .22 for the arms enumerated under (1) above, 1 Noted in § 201.41 of Title 22, infra. and cartridge cases or bullets for such ammunition. CATEGORY V (1) Livens projectors, flame throwers, and fire-barrage projectors; (2) a. Mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide); b. Lewisite (chlorvinyldichlorarsine and dichlordivinylchlorarsine); c. Methyldichlorarsine; d. Diphenylchlorarsine; e. Diphenylcyanarsine; f. Diphenylaminechlorarsine; g. Phenyldichlorarsine; h. Ethyldichlorarsine; 1. Phenyldibromarsine; 1. Monochlormethylchlorformate; m. Trichlormethylchlorformate gene); n. Dichlordimethyl ether; s. Brombenzylcyanide; u. Brommethylethyl ketone. CATEGORY VI (1) Propellent powders; (2) High explosives as follows: (diphos a. Nitrocellulose having a nitrogen content of more than 12.20%; b. Trinitrotoluene; c. Trinitroxylene; d. Tetryl (trinitrophenol methyl nitramine or "tetranitromethylaniline"); e. Picric acid; f. Ammonium picrate; g. Trinitroanisol; h. Trinitronaphthalene; 1. Tetranitronaphthalene; k. Pentaerythritetetranitrate (penthrite or pentrite); 1. Trimethylenetrinitramine (hexogen or T1); nitrate powders (black m. Potassium saltpeter powder); n. Sodium nitrate powders (black、 soda powder); o. Amatol (mixture of ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene); p. Ammonal (mixture of ammonium nitrate, trinitrotoluene, and powdered aluminum, with or without other ingredients): q. Schneiderite (mixture of ammonium nitrate and dinitronaphthalene, with or without other ingredients). Effective February 20, 1947, this proclamation shall supersede Proclamation 2549, dated April 9, 1942.2 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 23 CFR Cum. Supp. Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 14th day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and for[SEAL] ty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventyfirst. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: G. C. MARSHALL, Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2718 "I AM AN AMERICAN DAY", 1947 WHEREAS the rise of the United States of America to a place of eminence among nations in less than two centuries has been greatly enhanced by the migration to its shores of pioneering, freedomloving peoples; and WHEREAS the political life-blood of the Nation is annually renewed by the coming of voting age of more than two million native-born young men and women; and WHEREAS the combined talents, skills, service, and loyalty of these mingled native-born and foreign-born peoples have brought us victoriously through the greatest of all wars; and WHEREAS in the teamwork of democracy the requisites for good citizenship are not place of birth or race or religious belief; but character, education, cooperation, and loyalty; and WHEREAS the stupendous task of all men in this new age is to strive to remove from the world the age-old curse of warfare, and to advance the cause of freedom and brotherhood: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Congress in Public Resolution 67, approved May 3, 1940, do hereby designate Sunday, May 18, 1947, as "I Am an American Day," and do set aside that day as a public occasion for the honoring of American citizenship by giving special recognition to those who have become naturalized as citizens during the past year and to the young people who have during the year assumed full responsibilities of citizenship by coming of age. And I urge Federal, State, and local officials and patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to plan and hold, on or about May 18, exercises designed to help our citizens better to understand their privileges and responsibilities as participants in our representative der mocracy, to the end that world peace and domestic felicity may be attained and perpetuated. 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 1st day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: PROCLAMATION 2719 ARMY DAY AND ARMY WEEK, 1947 WHEREAS the Army of the United States is a bulwark of our country's strength in time of peril and the faithful guardian of our dearly-bought liberty in time of peace, and has since the inception of this Nation stood between our freedom-loving people and all aggressors; and WHEREAS the soldiers of our Army continue in active service as loyal servants of our democracy, whose purpose is to insure the establishment of justice, tranquillity, and an enduring peace; and WHEREAS Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, 75th Congress, 1st Session, which was agreed to by the House of Representatives on March 16, 1937 (50 Stat. 1108), provides: "That April 6 of each year be recognized by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America as Army Day, and that the President of the United States be requested, as Commander in Chief, to order military units throughout the United States to assist civic bodies in appropriate celebration to such extent as he may deem advisable; to issue a proclamation each year declaring April 6 as Army Day, and in such proclamations to invite the Governors of the various States to issue Army Day proclamations: Provided, That in the event |