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PROCLAMATIONS-APR . 10, 14,1941 1629 AND WHEREAS on June 11, 1940, I issued a proclamation in accordance with the provision of law quoted above defining a combat area. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President Modificationotprior of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the proclamation. authority conferred on me by section 3 (c) of the joint resolution of Congress approved November 4, 1939, do hereby modify my procla- mation of June 11, 1940, defining combat areas into which it shall be 4 s2 7 t0. s 443 unlawful, except under such rules and regulations as shall be pre- note. scribed, for any citizen of the United States or any American vessel, whether a surface vessel or an aircraft, to proceed, by eliminating Area eliminated from the scope of that proclamation the combat area defined in the proclamtson.f prior second numbered section thereof as: "Beginning at the intersection of the North Coast of Italian Somaliland with the meridian of 50° longitude east of Greenwich; "Thence due north to the mainland of Arabia; "Thence eastward along the coast of Arabia to the meridian of 51° east longitude; "Thence due south to the mainland of Italian Somaliland; "Thence westward along the coast of Italian Somaliland to the point of beginning." And I do hereby proclaim that it shall no longer be unlawful for any citizen of the United States or any American vessel, whether a surface vessel or an aircraft, ;o proceed into or through the area defined above. 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 10th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. CONTROL OF THE EXPORT OF CERTAIN ARTICLES AND MATERIALS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows: "Sec. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the expor- tation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials, or supplies neces- sary for the manufacture, servicing, or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportations, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proc- lamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or Entry into area, re- moval of restriction. April 14, 1941 (No. 2475] 54 Stat. 714; ante, p . 206. 50 U. S. C., app. § 701. 55 STAT.]