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 PROCLAMATIONS- - ay28,194 July 14,1945 [59 STAT. homes, and also to arrange wherever possible for joint displays of the flags of the freedom-loving United Nations, whose staunch collabo- ration has aided us to achieve the victories of war and will aid us to realize our hope for an enduring peace. 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 28th of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES July 14, 1945 [No. 266] 56 Stat. 79-797; 56 Stat. 307. 60 U. 8. C., 8upp. IV, app. note prec. 1 . 66 Stat. 1700, 1705, 1707, 1714; 66 Stat. 133, 1970. Po,. p. 880 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U. S . C . 21) provides: "Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or preda- tory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or gov- ernment, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the man- ner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regula- tions which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety."; WHEREAS sections 4068, 4069, and '4070 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U. S. C . 22, 23, 24) make further provision relative to alien enemies; WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolutions approved by the President on December 8 and 11, 1941, and June 5, 1942, declared the existence of a state of war between the United States and the Governments of Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania; WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2525 of December 7, 1941, Proclamations Nos. 2526 and2527 of December 8, 1941, Proclamation No. 2533 of December 29, 1941, Proclamation No. 2537 of January 14, 1942, and Proclamation No. 2563 of July 17, i942, the President prescribed and proclaimed certain regulations governig the condu of alien enemies; and i 870

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