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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 19, 22, 1949 United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer. . ."; AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Israel on April 18, 1949, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Israel upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Israel and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Israel or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from April 18, 1949, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer. IN TESTIMONY 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 19th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Secretary of State DEATH OF JAMES FORRESTAL BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION To the People of the United States: It has become my sad duty to announce officially the death of James Forrestal, formerly Secretary of Defense in the Government of the United States, who died at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, at 2 a. m. on the 22nd day of May, 1949. Mr. Forrestal served with devotion and great distinction as Admin- istrative Assistant to the President of the United States, as Under Secretary and Secretary of the Navy, and finally as the nation's first Secretary of Defense. He exhausted his strength by his unremit- ting labors in the burdensome duties of these offices during the war and the critical years which have followed the end of hostilities. His tragic death came as a shock to his friends, and a great loss to the people of the United States, whom he had served so well and faith- fully. As a mark of respect to Mr. Forrestal's memory, it is hereby ordered that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all public build- Israel, suspension of tonnage duties. Effective date. May 22, 1949 [No. 2840] James Forrestal. 83 STAT.] 1273

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