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who enjoyed them once and now no longer can. We understand in
some measure what their loss can mean. And by that realization we
have come to a clearer conception of their worth to us, and to a stronger
and more unalterable determination that here in our land they shall
not be lost or weakened or curtailed.
It is to give public expression and outward form to that understanding and that determination that we are about to commemorate the adoption of the Bill of Rights and rededicate its principles and its practice.
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 twenty-seventh day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth.
By the President:
- Cordell Hull
- Secretary of State.
December 7, 1941
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[ No. 2525 ]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Authority
Alien enemies.
WHEREAS it is provided by Section 21 of Title 50 of the United
States Code as follows:
"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 against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects 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 re- moved as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed, on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety."
and
WHEREAS by Sections 22, 23 and 24 of Title 50 of the United
States Code further provision is made relative to alien enemies:
