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PROCLAMATION 3448~FEB. 5, 1962

of the embargo hereby proclaimed, and to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to perform such functions. 3. A N D F U K THE R, I do hereby direct the Secretary of Commerce, under the provisions of the Export Control Act of 1949, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2021-2032), to continue to carry out the prohibition of all exports from the United States to Cuba, and I hereby authorize him, under that Act, to continue, make, modify or revoke exceptions from such prohibition. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this third day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3448 IMPORTS OF SHMURAH WHEAT FLOUR FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 624), the President issued Proclamation No. 2489 of May 28, 1941, which was amended by Proclamation No. 2550 of April 13, 1942, and further amended by Proclamation No. 2584 of April 29, 1943, limiting the quantities of wheat and wheat flour which may be entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption; and WHEREAS certain persons require Shmurah wheat flour in the observance of the Passover holiday, which begins April 19, 1962; and WHEREAS Shmurah wheat flour is wheat flour that has been thoroughly safeguarded for ritual purposes under rabbinical supervision and which is imported into the United States for use solely for religious and ritual purposes in the making of matzos for Passover; and WHEREAS the limitations imposed upon the importation of wheat and wheat flour by Proclamation No. 2489, as amended, were never intended to apply to Shmurah wheat flour; and WHEREAS the estimated quantity of Shmurah wheat flour which would be imported into the United States during any one year would be so insignificant that it could not possibly render or tend to render ineffective, nor materially interfere with, the price-support program undertaken by the Department of Agriculture with respect to wheat; and WHEREAS it is deemed advisable to clarify the scope of Proclamation No. 2489, as amended, in this respect in order to simplify the administration of the proclamation: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, do hereby proclaim that the provisions of Proclamation No. 2489, as amended, shall not be deemed to apply to Shmurah wheat

February 5, 1962

55 Stat. (Pt. 2) 1649. 56 Stat. (Pt. 2) 1950. 57 Stat. (Pt. 2) 738,

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