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[CITE: 22USC451]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
         CHAPTER 9--FOREIGN WARS, WAR MATERIALS, AND NEUTRALITY
 
                        SUBCHAPTER II--NEUTRALITY
 
Sec. 451. Submarines and armed merchant vessels

    Whenever, during any war in which the United States is neutral, the 
President shall find that special restrictions placed on the use of the 
ports and territorial waters of the United States by the submarines or 
armed merchant vessels of a foreign state will serve to maintain peace 
between the United States and foreign states, or to protect the 
commercial interests of the United States and its citizens, or to 
promote the security of the United States, and shall make proclamation 
thereof, it shall thereafter be unlawful for any such submarine or armed 
merchant vessel to enter a port or the territorial waters of the United 
States or to depart therefrom, except under such conditions and subject 
to such limitations as the President may prescribe. Whenever, in his 
judgment, the conditions which have caused him to issue his proclamation 
have ceased to exist, he shall revoke his proclamation and the 
provisions of this section shall thereupon cease to apply, except as to 
offenses committed prior to such revocation.

(Nov. 4, 1939, ch. 2, Sec. 11, 54 Stat. 9.)


   Use of United States Ports and Territorial Waters by Submarines of 
                             Foreign Nations

    By Proc. Nos. 2375, Nov. 4, 1939, 4 F.R. 4494, 54 Stat. 2672; 2400, 
Apr. 25, 1940, 5 F.R. 1570, 54 Stat. 2699; 2406, May 11, 1940, 5 F.R. 
1690, 54 Stat. 2705; 2409, June 10, 1940, 5 F.R. 2192, 54 Stat. 2707; 
2445, Nov. 15, 1940, 5 F.R. 4524, 54 Stat. 2672, submarines of France, 
Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 
Union of South Africa, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, and 
Greece were denied use of United States ports and territorial waters.
