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SUMMARY OF PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF DECEM-BER 7 AND 8, 1941, AND JANUARY 14, 1942, AND OF REGULATIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERALTHEREUNDER 1942, PRESCRIBING THE CONDUCT TO BE OBSERVED BY ALIENS OF ENEMYNATIONALITIES.
The Proclamations of the President of December 7 and 8, 1941, direct the conduct to be observed by aliens of enemynationalities in the United States who have not been naturalized as citizens of the United States . The Proclamation of thePresident of January 14, 1942, requires that aliens of enemy nationalities shall apply for Certificates of Identification in themanner required by the regulations of the Attorney General. Under the authority of the Proclamations the Attorney Generalhas issued revised regulations governing the possession of radios, cameras, firearms, and other prohibited articles and the travelof alien enemies and regulations requiring applications for certificates of identification at specified times. It is their duty tobecome acquainted with these regulations and to become familiar with any other regulations which are hereafter issued. Forconvenience and merely as a guide, a summary of these regulations follows but the summary does not take the place of theregulations.*
1. The aliens of enemy nationalities required to apply for certifications of identification and to observe the regulations includeall persons of the age of 14 years or over who are German , Italian or Japanese citizens or subjects or who are stateless but whoat the time at which they became stateless were German , Italian or Japanese citizens or subjects.
2. Persons not required to apply for certificates of identification or to comply with the revised regulations include German ,Italian and Japanese citizens or subjects who became citizens or subjects of any nation other than Germany , Italy or Japan ,before December 7, 1941 in the case of former Japanese citizens or subjects, and before December 8, 1941 in the case of formerGerman or Italian citizens or subjects, and also Austrians, Austrian- Hungarians and Koreans who registered as such under theAlien Registration Act of 1940.
3. Aliens of enemy nationalities are required to preserve the peace toward the United States and refrain from any hostilityto the United States or from in any way aiding the enemies of the United States .
4. Aliens of enemy nationalities are prohibited from having in their possession, custody or control or from using or operatingcertain prohibited articles. These prohibited articles include among other things, radio transmitters, shortwave radio receivingsets, cameras and firearms.
5. The United States Attorney for the judicial district in which an alien enemy resides may, under certain specified conditions,grant permission to an alien of enemy nationality to use or operate or possess shortwave radios, cameras, or other prohibitedarticles. To obtain information as to the circumstances under which such permission will be granted, an alien of enemy national-ity should consult the Attorney General's revised regulations and if he needs further information he should consult the UnitedStates Attorney.
6. Aliens of enemy nationalities are forbidden to make any flight in any type of airplane or aircraft and are forbidden fromentering or being found in or upon any highway, waterway, airway, railway, subway, public utility or building not open andaccessible to the public generally and not generally used by the public. All aliens of enemy nationalities are forbidden to enteror leave the United States except under the regulations in the Proclamation of the President of November 14, 1941 and all theregulations promulgated thereunder.
7. No alien of enemy nationality shall be found within any area which shall be designated by the Attorney General asan area within which alien enemies shall not be found and no alien enemies shall reside within an area which shall be designated bythe Attorney General as an area within which alien enemies shall not reside.
8. No alien of enemy nationality shall change his place of abode or residence or his place of employment or of occupationwithout having at least one week before such a change filed with the United States Attorney for the judicial district in whichhe then resides, a written notice of intention to change his place of residence.
9. No alien of enemy nationality shall assume or use any other than his legal name except as authorized by or under law.10. Whenever an alien of enemy nationality who is a holder of a Certificate of Identification changes his name, residence,address or place of employment, a written notice shall immediately be given to the Alien Registration Division of the Immigra tion and Naturalization Service and the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shown in the holder's Certificate ofIdentification.
11. No alien of enemy nationality shall travel or move from place to place without having obtained permission of theUnited States Attorney for the judicial district in which he resides with the exception that such permission is not required fortravel within the urban or rural community in which the alien resides, for commuting to business or for travel to places ofworship or school, or to transact business with public officials. Such permission may be granted by the United States Attorneyin accordance with the provisions of the Attorney General's revised regulations.
12. An alien of enemy nationality who fails to comply with the provisions of the Proclamations and regulations prescrib-ing the conduct to be observed by alien enemies, is subject to apprehension, detention and internment for the duration of the war.
* Additional information concerning these regulations and others issued by the Attorney General may be obtained in theoffice of the United States Attorney for your district or from the Director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit, United States Department of Justice , Washington, D. C.
Francis Biddl
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Attorney General.