Harry Truman: “By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat.…”

“By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 906), and as President of the United States, it is ordered that the operation of the provisions of paragraph 3, subsection (d), section 514 of the said Officer Personnel Act of 1947, applicable to the mandatory retirement of colonels of the Regular Army and the Regular Air Force be, and it is hereby suspended for the duration of the emergency proclaimed by proclamation No. 2914 of December 16, 1950, or until June 30, 1957, which ever is earlier,”