Executive Order No. 9300 of February 5, 1943, is hereby revoked.

I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1947 as Cancer Control Month, and do invite the Governors of the several States and the Territories and possessions of the United States…

In view of the significance and urgency of international health problems, I consider it important that the United States join the World Health Organization as soon as possible.

This order shall become effective as of November 1, 1946, and shall be published in the Federal Register.

Our international responsibilities cannot be fulfilled without this machinery.

I urge upon the Congress prompt action in extending this authority.

We will continue to remove export controls as rapidly as the supply situation permits.

Foreign demands for these supplies are therefore extremely large.

I therefore, recommend that the authority derived from the Export Control Act be extended for a period of one year beyond its present expiration date, June 30, 1947.

This country is the great undamaged center of industrial production to which the whole world looks for materials of every kind.

Export control is an important instrument in carrying out the purpose of these loan programs.

The danger of immediate and complete decontrol in the face of continuing domestic and world scarcities is too great for this nation to undertake at this time.

This Government must continue its control over the export of products in critically short supply here and abroad, in order to protect the economy of the United States as well as to discharge our international responsibilities.

Uncontrolled exports of food products would result in a marked increase in the already substantial burden of living costs borne by the American people.

In my message to the Congress on January 31, 1947, concerning the extension of specified parts of the Second War Powers Act, I stated that it was desirable to delay any communication on the subject of the control of this country's exports…

The gravity of the situation which confronts the world today necessitates my appearance before a joint session of the Congress.

We are the only country able to provide that help.

The assistance that I am recommending for Greece and Turkey amounts to little more than 1/10 of 1 percent of this investment.