Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, Japan, 1931–1941, Volume II

Proclamation No. 2456, Signed by President Roosevelt, February 4, 1941⁴¹

February 4, 1941

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:

[Here follows the text of the act as quoted in proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940, printed on page 211.]

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 aforesaid act of Congress, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interest of the national defense that on and after February 10, 1941, the following-described articles and materials shall not be exported from the United States except when authorized in each case by a license as provided for in Proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940, entitled “Administration of section 6 of the Act entitled ‘An Act To expedite the strengthening of the national defense’ approved July 2, 1940.”:

(1.) Well and refining machinery

(2.) Radium

(3.) Uranium

(4.) Calf and kip skins.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

[seal] Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one and of 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

41. Reprinted from ibid., February 8, 1941 (vol. iv, No. 85), p. 157.