By virtue of the authority vested in me by the joint resolution approved December 30, 1947 (Public Law 395, 80th Congress), and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Whereas, after seeking and obtaining information and advice with respect thereto from the United States Tariff Commission, the Departments of State, Agriculture, Commerce, the Army, and the Navy, and from other sources, on October 30, 1947 I entered, through my duly empowered Plenipotentiary, into an exclusive trade agreement with the Government of the Republic of Cuba, which exclusive trade agreement, as supplemented by an exchange of notes between the Acting Secretary of State and the United States of America and the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba, signed December 19 and 22, 1947, by two exchanges of letters between the Acting Chairman of the United States Delegation to the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment and the President of the Cuban Delegation thereto, signed October 30, 1947, by a memorandum of October 28, 1947 from the Cuban Delegation, and by two memoranda of October 30, 1947 from the Cuban Delegation, in the English and Spanish languages, is annexed to this proclamation;

Whereas, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, have found as a fact that certain existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States of America and that the purpose declared in said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, will be promoted by a trade agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Cuba;

Whereas, reasonable public notice of the intention to negotiate such trade agreement was given and the views presented by persons interested in the negotiation thereof were received and considered;

Whereas, the provisions of numbered paragraph 2 of said exclusive trade agreement providing for the application to products of the Republic of Cuba of portions of schedule XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 30, 1947, and of article 17 of the Draft Charter for an International Trade Organization recommended by the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment make those portions of said schedule, and all other provisions of said general agreement and of the protocol of Provisional Application thereof which relate to the schedule or to the concessions therein, and said article 17 a part of said exclusive trade agreement insofar as they apply to products of the Republic of Cuba;

Whereas, part II of, and the general notes in, said schedule XX of the general agreement, which are thus made a part of said exclusive trade agreement, are annexed to this proclamation;

The members herein designated shall receive such compensation and allowances for expenses as may be determined by the Secretary of the Army and as may be payable from appropriations or funds available to the Department of the Army for such purposes.

I hereby designate John C. Young, formerly Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado, Leon W Powers, formerly Judge, Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Lee. B. Wyatt, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, Hu C. Anderson, Presiding Judge, Court of Appeals of the State of Tennessee, Winfield B. Hale, Judge, Court of Appeals of the State of Tennessee, Daniel T. O'Connell, Associate Justice, Superior Court of the State of Massachusetts, William J. Wilkins, Judge, Superior Court of the State of Washington, Edward J. Daly, Judge, Superior Court of the State of Connecticut, and Robert F. Maguire, attorney of the State of Oregon, as the members, and Clarence F. Merrell, attorney of the State of Indiana, as an alternate member, of the military tribunals established by the Military Governor for the United States Zone of Occupation within Germany pursuant to the quadripartite agreement of the Control Council for Germany, enacted December 20, 1945, as Control Council Law NO. 10, and pursuant to Articles 10 and 11 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which tribunal was established by the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for the trial and punishment of major war criminals of the European Axis.

The Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Army, and the Secretary of the Navy are authorized to provide appropriate assistance to the members herein designated in the performance of their duties and may assign or detail such personnel under their respective jurisdictions, including members of the armed forces, as may be requested for the purpose.

I trust that when the Congress returns it will promptly enact an effective, workable program.

The bill which the Congress has enacted fails to include any of these necessary elements.

It is far too late in the fight against inflation, however, to place our main reliance upon voluntary action.

Inflation and the high cost of living confront the American people--all the American people--with a grave danger.

This bill fails to include the key measures which are essential to an effective anti-inflation program.

Under the normal operation of our governmental system, when an administrative agency has made this kind of determination, it would put the measures into effect at once.

Prices have continued to rise.

This bill will not reduce the high cost of living and it will not keep prices from going even higher.

Efforts to obtain voluntary action by businessmen have already been extensively tried.