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668 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS . 607-609, 651-DEC . 28, 1945 [59 STAT. [CHAPTER 607] December 28, 1945 [H . J . Res. 1801 [Public Law 287] Flag of the U . S . A . 56 Stat. 380 . 36 U . S . C ., Supp. IV, • 172 . Pledge of allegiance. JOINT RESOLUTION Giving official recognition to the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States . Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of Public Law Numbered 623 of June 22, 1942, entitled "To codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States of America", as amended, is amended to read as follows "SEO. 7 . The following is designated as the pledge of allegiance to the flag : `I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all' . Such pledge should be rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart . However, civilians will always show full respect to the flag when the pledge is given by merely standing at attention, men removing the headdress . Persons in uniform shall render the military salute ." Approved December 28, 1945 . [CHAPTER 6081 December 28, 1945 [H . J. Res . 290] [Public Law 2881 Navy. Continuance of V12 program . Ante, p. 204. JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the continuance to the end of June 1946, of the Navy's V-12 program . Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That surplus amounts under any naval appropriation for the fiscal year 1946, not to exceed in the aggregate $10,000,000, may be transferred to the appropriation "Naval Reserve, 1946", for continuing the V-12 program to the end of June 1946 . Approved December 28, 1945 . [CHAPTER 609] December 28,1945 [H. J. Res . 2941 [Public Law 289] JOINT RESOLUTION Fixing the date of meeting of the second session of the Seventy-ninth Congress . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the second session of the Seventy-ninth Congress shall begin at noon on Monday, January 14, 1946 . Approved December 28, 1945 . [CHAPTER 651] December 28,1945 [H . J Res . 111] Designating [Public Law 290] George Washington Carver Day . JOINT RESOLUTION January 5, 1946, as George Washington Carver Day . Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the 5th day of January of 1946 is hereby designated as George Washington Carver Day, in commemoration of the great scientist, and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on such day. Approved December 28, 1945 . 59 STAT .] 79TH CONG., 1sT SESS .-CH . 652-DEC . 29, 1945 669 [CHAPTER 6521 AN ACT To extend certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to international organizations and to the officers and employees thereof, and for other purposes . December 29,1945 R . 448191 [Public Law 2911 [x. Be it enacted by the senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, TITLE I SECTION 1 . For the purposes of this title, the term "international organization" means a public international organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any-Act of Congress authorizing such participation or making an appropriation for such participation, and which shall have been designated by the President through appropriate Executive order as being entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities herein provided . The President shad be authorized, in the light of the functions performed by any such international organization, by appropriate Executive order to withhold or withdraw from any such organization or its officers or employees any of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for in this title (including the amendments made by this title) or to condition or limit the enjoyment by any such organization or its officers or employees of any such privilege, exemption, or immunity. The President shall be authorized, if in his judgment such action should be justified by reason of the abuse by an international organization or its officers and employees of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities herein provided or for any other reason, at any time to revoke the designation of any international organization under this section, whereupon the international organization in question shall cease to be classed as an international organization for the purposes of this title . SEC. 2. International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows (a) International organizations shall, to the extent consistent with the instrument creating them, possess the capacityi) to contract ; (ii) to acquire and dispose of real and personal property ; (iii) to institute legal proceedings . (b) International organizations, their property and their assets, wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract . (c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation . The archives of international organizations shall be inviolable . (d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in connection therewith ; the registration of foreign agents ; and the treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments . SEC . 3 . Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the baggage and effects of alien officers and employees of international organizations, or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve as their representatives in or to such organizations, or of the families, suites, and servants of such officers, employees, or representatives shall International Organizations Immuni. ties Act . "International organization ." Withholding, etc., of privileges, exemptions, and immunities . Revocation of designation ; effect . Powers . Immunity from suit and judicial process . Immunity from search and confiscation . Privileges, etc ., as accorded foreign governments . Baggage and effects of designated alien personnel .