(superseding No. 2662)

Removal of Alien Enemies

WHEREAS section 4067 and 4068 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U.S.C. 21
and 22) makes provision relative to the restraint and removal from the United States of alien enemies
in the interest of the public safety; and

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 on the one
hand and Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania on the other hand; and

WHEREAS in accordance with Resolution XVII of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio de
Janeiro adopted on January 28, 1942, and subsequently by undertakings based upon Resolution XX of
the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense adopted at Montevideo on May
21, 1943, there has been assumed by the Government of the United States responsibility for the
restraint and repatriation of certain dangerous alien enemies brought to the United States from other
of the American republics in the interest of the security of the Western Hemisphere; and

WHEREAS by Resolution VII of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace
adopted at Mexico City on March 8, 1945, the American republics recommended the adoption of
measures to prevent any person whose deportation was deemed necessary for reasons of security of
the continent from further residing in this hemisphere, if such residence would be prejudicial to the
future security or welfare of the Americas; and

WHEREAS I find it necessary in the light of the commitments of the Government and in the
interest of national defense and public safety to prescribe regulations additional and supplemental to
all other regulations affecting the restraint and removal of alien enemies:

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 all other regulations affecting the restraint
and removal of alien enemies:

1. All alien enemies within the continental limits of the United States brought here from other
American republics after December 7, 1941, who are within the territory of the Untied States without
admission under the immigration laws, shall, if their continued residence in the Western Hemisphere is
deemed by the Secretary of State to be prejudicial to the future security or welfare of the Americas,
be subject upon the order of the Secretary of State to removal from the Unites States and may be
required to depart therefrom in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of State may
prescribe.

2. In all cases in which the Secretary of State shall have ordered the removal of an alien enemy under
the authority of this proclamation or in which the Attorney General shall have ordered the removal of
an alien enemy under the authority of Proclamation No. 2655 of July 14, 1945, thirty days shall be
considered, and is hereby declared to be, a reasonable time for such alien enemy to effect the
recovery, disposal, and removal of his goods and effects, and for his departure.

3. This proclamation supersedes Proclamation No. 2662 of September 8, 1945, entitled "Removal of
Alien Enemies."

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-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth.

By the President: Harry S Truman

Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State