GUARD AGAINST A-BOMB ATTACKS ON FOREIGN SHIPS
WASHINGTON, July 21.
The Senate today unanimously approved a bill empowering President Truman to invoke wartime security measures to guard against the use of foreign merchant ships for atomic bomb attacks in American cities.
The bill will let the President reinvoke the security regulations without declaring a national emergency as is required by the existing law.
The President will be empowered to issue regulations and take other steps governing anchorage and the movement of foreign vessels in the United States territorial waters. The regulations permit inspection at any time, the placing of guards on ships and the seizure of foreign craft if necessary. The bill now goes to the House.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23313, 24 July 1950, Page 5
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