Executive Order 10438—Transferring Certain Functions of the National Security Resources Board and of the Chairman Thereof to the Director of Defense Mobilization

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. All of the functions vested in the National Security Resources Board and in the Chairman of such Board by the following-designated Executive orders are hereby transferred to the Director of Defense Mobilization, and the said Executive orders are amended accordingly.

(a) Executive Order No. 9781 of September 19, 1946, as amended by Executive Order No. 10360 of June 11, 1952 (17 P.R. 5337).

(b) Executive Order No. 10312 of December 10, 1951 (16 P.R. 12452).

(c) Executive Order No. 10346 of April 17, 1952 (17 P.R. 3477).

(d) Executive Order No. 10421 of December 31, 1952 (18 P.R. 57).

SEC 2. So much of the records and personnel under the jurisdiction of the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board as such Chairman and the Director of Defense Mobilization shall jointly determine to relate primarily to the functions which are transferred to the Director of Defense Mobilization by section 1 of this order shall be transferred, consonant with law, to the Office of Defense Mobilization.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 13, 1953.