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PUBLIC LAW 139—SEPT. 1, 1951

Whereas the Unified Command in Korea is supplying emergency food rations and medical care for said refugees and, through the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid of the Department of State, is urgently requesting voluntary contributions of clothing, blankets, yard goods, yarn, needles, thread, soap, and kindred supplies from the American people; and Whereas ten member agencies of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, Incorporated, including the American Friends Service Committee; Brethren Service Commission; Church World Service; Labor League for Human Rights, American Federation of Labor; Lutheran World Relief; Mennonite Central Committee; Save the Children Federation; W a r Relief Service—National Catholic Welfare Conference; World Student Service F u n d; Young Women's Christian Association—World Emergency Fund, with the cooperation of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid of the Department of State have recently set up an organization known as American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, as an over-all national channel for the collection and transmission of clothing and kindred supplies to Korea; and Whereas American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, is now actively functioning from its national headquarters at 133 East Thirty-ninth Street, New York 16, New York, with warehouses located at Maspeth, New York, and Oakland, California, for the preparation and shipment of clothing and kindred supplies to Korea: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the United States, having deep sympathy for the plight of the millions of Korean refugees who are innocent victims of cruel and unprovoked aggression, recognizes their desperate condition, expresses its hope and expectation that all Americans will respond generously to the appeal of American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, and authorizes the President to set aside as soon as practicable a period of not less than one month as a special period of intensive effort during the course of which, as an additional sincere and tangible gesture of American friendship and sympathy, the clothing collection appeal of American Relief for Korea, Incorporated, may receive the utmost support of all Americans. Approved August 31, 1951.

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American Relief for Korea, Inc. C o n t r i b u t i o n s of clothing, etc.

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AN ACT To assist the provision of housing and community facilities and services required in connection with the national defense.

September 1, 1951 [S. 349]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may ^nd''commu^i'ty^FV and be cited as the "Defense Housing and Community Facilities and cilities 1951. Services Act of Services Act of 1951". TITLE I—CRITICAL DEFENSE HOUSING AREAS, PROCEDURES FOR E X E R C I S E OF AUTHORITY, AND EXPIRATION DATE SEC. 101. (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the cis^o^/aSrity.^' authority contained in titles II, III, or IV of this Act shall not be Postl PP. 295, 30.3, exercised in any area unless the President shall have determined that such area is a critical defense housing area.

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