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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 25, 1947
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT IN CONNECTION ITH
THE SIGNING OF S. J. RES. 123
I have today approved Senate Joint Resolution 123,
providing for the repeal of certain temporary emergency and war
statutes and for discontinuing operations under various permanent
statutes which are effective only in time of war or national
emergency. Under the terms of the new Act, certain wartime
powers are ended immediately and others will terminate at stated
times within a period of one year. Some 175 statutory provisions
are affected.
This resolution is the result of joint studies made by
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the Attorney General and the Committee on the Judiciary of each
House of the Congress, with the cooperation of the executive
departments and agencies. It is part of a sound and systematic
program for removing emergency and wartime powers of the Govern-
ment, and is in accord with recommendations which I have previously
made to the Congress on this subject.
The proclamation declaring the cessation of hostilities
of World War II, issued on December 31, 1946, had the effect, under
the law, of termin ting operations under a large number of wartime
statutes. The present bill makes suitable provision with respect
to a number of additional statutes, the need for which has now
ceased or will cease at a foreseeable future date.
The emergencies declared by the President on September 8,
1939, and May 27, 1941, and the state of war continue to exist,
however, and it is not possible at this time to provide for termina-
ting all war and emergency powers.
I have asked the Attorney General to continue his study
of the problems involved in the termination of the remaining wartime
and emergency legislation, as well as the other problems involved
in declaring the end of the war and the end of the existing
emergencies. We should complete the orderly reconversion of the
machinery and operations of the Government to a peacetime basis
as rapidly as practicable.