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On the recordAugust 4, 1914
It is now ordered, by virtue of authority vested in me to establish regulations on the subject, that all radio stations within the jurisdiction of the United States of America are hereby prohibited from transmitting or receiving for delivery messages of an unneutral nature, and from in any way rendering to any one of the belligerents any unneutral service, during the continuance of hostilities.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Executive Order 2011—To Enforce Neutrality of Wireless Stations

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