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SUMMARY OF PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF DECEMBER 7 AND 8, 1941, AND JANUARY 14, 1942, AND OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THEREUNDER 1942, PRESCRIBING THE CONDUCT TO BE OBSERVED BY ALIENS OF ENEMY NATIONALITIES.

The Proclamations of the President of December 7 and 8, 1941, direct the conduct to be observed by aliens of enemy nationalities in the United States who have not been naturalized as citizens of the United States. The Proclamation of the President of January 14, 1942, requires that aliens of enemy nationalities shall apply for Certificates of Identification in the manner required by the regulations of the Attorney General. Under the authority of the Proclamations the Attorney General has issued revised regulations requiring applications for certificates of identification at specified times. It is their duty to become acquainted with these regulations and to become familiar with any other regulations which are hereafter issued. For convenience and merely as a guide, a summary of these regulations follows but the summary does not take the place of the regulations.*

1. The aliens of enemy nationalities required to apply for certifications of identification and to observe the regulations include all persons of the age of 14 years or over who are German, Italian or Japanese citizens or citizens or subjects or who are stateless but who at 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 become 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 former German or Italian citizens or subjects, and also Austrians, Austrian-Hungarians and Koreans who registered as such under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
3. Aliens of enemy nationalities are required to preserve the peace toward the United States and refrain from any hostility to 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 operating certain prohibited articles. These prohibited articles include among other things, radio transmitters, shortwave radio receiving sets, 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 prohibited articles. To obtain information as to the circumstances under which such permission will be granted, an alien of enemy nationality should consult the Attorney General's revised regulations and if he needs further information he should consult the United States Attorney.
6. Aliens of enemy nationalities are forbidden to make any flight in any type of airplane or aircraft and are forbidden from entering or being found in or upon any highway, waterway, airway, subway, public utility or building not open and accessible to the public generally and not generally used by the public. All aliens of enemy nationalities are forbidden to enter or leave the United States except under the regulations in the Proclamation of the President of November 14, 1941 and all the regulations promulgated thereunder.
7. No alien of enemy nationality shall be found within any areas which shall be designated by the Attorney General as an area within which alien enemies shall not be found and no alien enemies shall reside within an area which shall be designated by the 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 occupation without having at least one week before such a change filed with the United States Attorney for the judicial district in which he 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 note shall immediately be given to the Alien Registration Division of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shown in the holder's Certificate of Identification.
11. No alien of enemy nationality shall travel or move from place to place without having obtained permission of the United States Attorney for the judicial district in which he resides with the exception that such permission is not required for travel within the urban or rural community in which the alien resides, for commuting to business or for travel to places of worship or school, or to transact business with public officials. Such permission may be granted by the United States Attorney in 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 Proclamation and regulations prescribing 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 the office 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 Biddle
Attorney General.

U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 16-26299-1