Proclamation No. 2465, Signed by President Roosevelt, March 4, 194150
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 April 15, 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 hereinafter provided:
Any model, design, photograph, photographic negative, document, or other article or material, containing a plan, specification, or descriptive or technical information of any kind (other than that appearing generally in a form available to the public) which can be used or adapted for use in connection with any process, synthesis, or operation in the production, manufacture, or reconstruction of any of the articles or materials the exportation of which is prohibited or [Page 255] curtailed in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1940, or of any basic or intermediary constituent of any such articles or materials.
And I do hereby empower the Administrator of Export Control to issue licenses authorizing the exportation of any of the above-named articles and materials in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the President.
Proclamation No. 2423, of September 12, 1940, is hereby superseded except so far as and to the extent that it relates to (1) equipment (excluding minor component parts) which can be used, or adapted to use, for the production of aviation motor fuel (as is defined in the regulations issued pursuant to Proclamation No. 2417, of July 26, 1940, as may from time to time be amended) from petroleum, petroleum products, hydrocarbon, or hydrocarbon mixtures, by processes involving chemical change; and (2) equipment (excluding minor component parts) which can be used, or adapted to use, for the production of tetraethyl lead (as is defined in the regulations issued pursuant to Proclamation No. 2417, of July 26, 1940, as may from time to time be amended).
Proclamation No. 2451, of December 20, 1940, is hereby superseded so far as and to the extent that it relates to plans for the production of aviation lubricating oil.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
By the President:
Cordell Hull
Secretary of State
- Reprinted from Department of State, Bulletin, March 8, 1941 (vol. iv, No. 89), p. 245.↩