White House Press Release, Proclamation Number 2655

IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 17, 1945 REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED SPATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 4067 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U.S.O. 21) provides: "Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened ageinst the territory of the Unlted States by any f'creign nation or govern- ment, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or sub- jects 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 ?resident is author- ized, in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be ob- served, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of GRUMAN the restraint to which they shall be subject and in NARA what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal 1 of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart there- from: and to establish any other regulations 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 rolative 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 o: Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania; WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2525 of December 7, 1941, Proclamations Nos. 2526 and 2527 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, 1942, the President pre- scribed and proclaimed certain regulations governing the conduct of alien enemies; and WHEREAS I find it necessary in the interest of national defense and public safety to prescribe regulations additional and supplemental to such regulations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the aforesaid sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following regulations, additional and supplemental to those prescribed by the aforesaid proclamations: All alien enemies now or hereafter interned within the continental limits of the United States pursuant to the aforesaid proclamations of the Prosident of the United States who shall be (OVER)