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FDR: “Any person, so long as his name appears in such list, shall be deemed to be a national of a foreign country.”

On the recordJuly 16, 1941
Any person, so long as his name appears in such list, shall be deemed to be a national of a foreign country.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Proclamation 2497—Blacklisting 1,800 Latin American Firms for Aiding Germany or Italy

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