DEPARTMENT OF STATE
FOR THE PRESS
DECEMBER 16, 1939
No. 696
Regulations Relating to Travel into
and through Combat Areas and on
Belligerent Vessels
DEPARTMENTAL ORDER No. 831
Pursuant to the authority contained in the President1
Proclamations nos. 2374 and 2376 issued on November 4;
1939,  in pursuance of sections 1 and 3, res;
the Neutrality Act of 1939, approved November 4, 1939, I,
Cordell Hull, Secretary of State of
hereby prescribe the following regu
regulations issued on Novembe
regul
ed on No
on belligerent vessels, and also amend
ssued on November 17, 1939, r
e regu.
travel in*
through combat areas.
Individual
a foreign nationalit
foreign sta
usi
to and from
across th
Channel without
y and
igerent vessel
or St. George's
ity and without
an American passport endorsed as valid for such travel.
Individuals who undertake travel under
dicated shall do so on the understanding tha
itions in-
look for protection
they carry.
December 14, 1939.
state whose passport
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