of nationals of one country in the armed forces of the other country. You state that your Government gives the assurance that persons desiring to opt for service in the South African forces under the arrangement will be accepted by your Government prior to their departure.

I am pleased to state that this Government considers that your Government has given all the necessary assurances. Accordingly, the arrangement with the Union of South Africa is now regarded as being in effect, and the appropriate authorities of this Government are being informed accordingly.

In this connection, I also take pleasure in informing you that the War Department is prepared to discharge, for the purpose of transferring to the armed forces of their own country, nondeclarant South African nationals now serving in the United States forces who have not heretofore had an opportunity of electing to serve in the forces of their own country, under the same conditions existing for the transfer of American citizens from the South African forces.

In regard to the various questions of procedure contained in your note under acknowledgment, I may state that these matters may be discussed directly between officials of the Legation and officers of the Selective Service System and of the War Department. Major Sherrow G. Parker of the Selective Service System, and Major V. L. Sailor of the Recruiting and Induction Section of the War Department, will be available to discuss with representatives of the South African Legation all matters relating to the practical details of the arrangement. I do not doubt that mutually satisfactory arrangements can be made in regard to the points mentioned in your note. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. For the Secretary of State:

The Honorable,

RALPH WILLIAM CLOSE, K.C.,

Minister of the

Union of South Africa.

G. HOWLAND SHAW

PROCLAMATIONS

PROCLAMATIONS

THIRD REGISTRATION DAY

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, approved September 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 885), declares that it is imperative to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and that in a free society the obligation and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service;

January 5, 1942 [No. 2535]

50 U. S. C., app. 301-318; Supp. I, 302-315.

Ante, pp. 369, 386, 724, 1018.

55 Stat. 844.
50 U.S. C., Supp. I,

WHEREAS the Act amending the said Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, approved December 20, 1941 (Public Law 360, 77th Cong.), provides for the extension of liability for military service app. $ 302-315. and for the registration of the man power of the Nation;

WHEREAS the said Act, as amended, contains, in part, the following provisions:

"SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder."

*

"SEC. 5. (a) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, the federally recognized active National Guard, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admittance (commencing with the academic year next succeeding such acceptance) to the United States Military Academy as cadets, to the United States Naval Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced course, senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign countries, and persons in other

1929

65714°-43—PT. II- -53

55 Stat. 12.

14 U. S. C., Supp. I, $308.

2747, 2760.

54 Stat. 2739, 2745, 50 U. S. C., Supp. I,

app. 302 note.

55 Stat. 1644.

categories to be specified by the President, residing in the United States, who are not citizens of the United States, and who have not declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, shall not be required to be registered under section 2 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under section 3 (b)."

"SEC. 10. (a) The President is authorized

(1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;"

(4) to utilize the services of any or all departments and any and all officers or agents of the United States and to accept the services of all officers and agents of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and subdivisions thereof in the execution of this Act;"

"SEC. 14. (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 2.1

WHEREAS section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, approved February 19, 1941 (Public Law 8, 77th Cong.), provides, in part, as follows:

"Members of the [Coast Guard] Reserve, other than temporary members as provided for in section 207 hereof, shall receive the same exemption from registration and liability for training and service as members of the Naval Reserve **

WHEREAS the first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 took place in the continental United States October 16, 1940, in the Territory of Hawaii on October 26, 1940, in Puerto Rico on November 20, 1940, and in the Territory of Alaska on January 22, 1941, pursuant to proclamations issued by me on September 16, 1940, October 1, 1940, October 8, 1940, and November 12, 1940, respectively;

WHEREAS the second registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 took place in the United States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico on July 1, 1941, pursuant to proclamation issued by me on May 26, 1941;

WHEREAS a state of war now exists between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan, Germany, and Italy; and WHEREAS this and other registrations under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and the amendments thereto will be re$$ 301-318; Supp. I, quired to insure victory, final and complete, over the enemies of the United States:

54 Stat. 885.

50 U. S. C., app.

§§ 302-315.

Ante, pp. 369, 386, 724, 1018.

Time for third registration.

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 Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following:

1. Pursuant to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, the registration of male citizens of the United States and other male persons who were born on or after February 17, 1897, and on or before December 31, 1921, shall take place in the United States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico on Monday, the 16th day of February, 1942, between the hours of 7:00 a. m. and 9:00 p. m.