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Harry Truman: “No persons, other than persons on public vessels of the United States, shall enter the Whittier Defensive Sea Area, and…”

On the recordJune 10, 1952
No persons, other than persons on public vessels of the United States, shall enter the Whittier Defensive Sea Area, and no vessels or other craft, other than public vessels of the United States, shall be navigated into that area, unless authorized by the Secretary of Defense, or such officer as he may designate.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 10361—Establishing the Whittier Defensive Sea Area, Alaska

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