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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. Juni 1936 / Time Line June 29, 1936
Version 3.00629/1936
Skibsfartsnævn
I USA vedtages Merchant
Marine Act / Lov om handelsflåden, hvorefter
handelsministeren bemyndiges til at rekvirere ethvert skib eller
andet fartøj, der ejes af borgere i USA i tilfælde af,
at præsidenten har proklameret national
undtagelsestilstand.
Kilde: Andersen, Helge: En sag om bekvemmelighedsflag
/ Helge Andersen ; Henrik Heie. - ISBN 87-87498-30-8 s. 16
0629/1936
US Merchant Marine Act, 1936, an Act,
To further the development and maintenance of an adequate and
well-balanced American merchant marine, to promote the commerce of
the United States, to aid in the national defense, to repeal
certain former legislation, and for other purposes...
TITLE I -- DECLARATION OF POLICY
SECTION 101. It is necessary for the national defense and
development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United
States shall have a merchant marine
(a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a
substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign
commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service on
all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and
foreign water-borne commerce at all times
(b) capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of
war or national emergency,
(c) owned and operated under the United States flag by citizens of
the United States insofar as may be practicable, and
(d) composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types
of vessels, constructed in the United States and manned with a
trained and efficient citizen personnel. It is hereby declared to
be the policy of the United States to foster the development and
encourage the maintenance of such a merchant marine.
TITLE II-UNITED STATES MARITIME COMMISSION
SEC. 201.
(a) An agency is hereby created, to be known as the United States
Maritime Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission).
The Commission shall be composed of five persons, in this title
referred to as members, to be appointed by the President by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate...
Source: The statues at Large of the United States of America
from January 1935 to June 1936. Concurrent Resolutions, Recent
Treaties and Conventions, Executive Proclamations and Agreements.
Vol. XLIX -- Merchant Marine Act, 1936
- http://www.usmm.org/mmact1936.html
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