PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 11, 1940 USE OF PORTS OR TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES BY SUBMARINES OF FOREIGN BELLIGERENT STATES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 11 of the Joint Resolution approved November 4,1939, provides: "Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the President shall find that special restrictions placed on the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines or armed merchant vessels of a foreign state, will serve to maintain peace between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to promote the security of the United States, and shall make proclamation thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed merchant vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United States or to depart therefrom, except under such conditions and subject to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in his judgment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation have ceased to exist, he shall revoke his proclamation and the provisions of this section shall there- upon cease to apply, except as to offenses committed prior to such revocation." WHEREAS there exists a state of war between Germany on the one hand and Belgium and the Netherlands on the other hand; WHEREAS the United States of America is neutral in such war; WHEREAS by my proclamation of November 4, 1939, issued pur- suant to the provision of law quoted above, I placed special restrictions on the use of ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines of France; Germany; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the foregoing provision of section 11 of the Joint Resolution approved November 4, 1939, do by this procla- mation declare and prolaim that the provisions of my proclamation of November 4 1939, in regard to the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States, exclusive of the Canal Zone, by the submarines of France; Germany; Poland; and the United Kidom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Union of Sout Africa, shall also apply to the use of the ports and territorial waters of the United States, exclusive of the Canal Zone, by the submarines of Belgium and the Netherlands. AND I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States, charged with the execution of the laws thereof, the utmost diligence in preventing violations of the said Joint Resolution, and this my proclamation issued thereunder, and in bringing to trial and punish- ment any offenders against the same. IN WITNESS 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 eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. By the President: CORDELL HULL Seretary of Stat. FRANK IN D lOUUO" V i JiA Preamble. Ante, p. 9. 22U. .C., Supp.V, 245j-10 . Ante, p. 2672 . Application of prior proclamation ex- tonded. Officers to prevent violations. 54 STAT.] 2705 May 11, 1940 [No. 2406]
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