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On the recordMarch 28, 1946
WHEREAS certain air navigation and aeronautical communications facilities provided by the United States for military purposes are located at points in foreign territory and elsewhere outside the continental limits of the United States where such facilities can be utilized to material advantage in the operation of international air carriers of the United States and of other nations
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 9709—Providing Interim Arrangements Respecting Certain Air Navigation Facilities Abroad

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