The President by Order Establishes a Mili-
tary Commission to Try Eight Captured German
Saboteurs and Issues a Proclamation Denying 
Certain Enemies Access to the courts.  Proclama-
tion No. 2561.  July 2, 1942

The Military Order:

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President and as
Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, under the Constitu-
tion and statutes of the United States, and more particularly the
Thirty-eighth article of War (U.S.C. Title 10, Sec. 1509), I,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do herby appoint as a Military Com-
mission the following persons:
	Major General Frank R. McCoy, President
	Major General Walter S. Grant
	Major General Blanton Winship
	Major General Lorenzo D. Gasser
	Brigadier General Guy V. Henry
	Brigadier General John T. Lewis
	Brigadier General John T. Kennedy
	The prosecution shall be conducted by the Attorney General
and the Judge Advocate General.  The defense counsel shall be 
Colonel Cassius M. Dowell and Colonel Kenneth Royall.
	The Military Commission shall meet in Washington, D.C.,
on July 8th 1942 or as soon thereafter as is practicable, to try
for offenses against the Law of War and the Articles of War, the
following persons:
	Ernst Peter Burger
	George John Dasch
	Herbert Hans Haupt
	Henry Harm Heinck
	Edward John Kerling
	Hermann Otto Neubauer
	Richard Quirin
	Werner Thiel
	The Commission shall have power to and shall as occasion
requires, make such rules for the conduct of the proceedings,
consistent with the powers of Military Commissions under the
Articles of War, as it shall deem necessary for a full and fair trial
of the matters before it.  Such evidence shall be admitted as 
would, in the opinion of the President of the Commission, have
probative value to a reasonable man.  The concurrence of at least 
two-thirds of the Members of the Commission present shall be
necessary for a conviction or sentence.  The record of the trial in-
cluding any judgment or sentence shall be transmitted directly
to me for my action thereon.

The Proclamation:

	WHEREAS, the safety of the United States demands that all
enemies who have entered upon the territory of the United
States as part of an invasion or predatory incursion, or who have
entered in order to commit sabotage, espionage, or other hostile
or warlike acts, should be promptly tried in accordance with the
Law of War;
	Now, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the
United States of America and Commander in Chief of the Army 
and Navy of the United States, by virtue of the authority vested 
in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States
do hereby proclaim that all persons who are subjects, citizens, or
residents of any Nation at war with the United States or who
give obedience to or act under the direction of any such Nation
and who during time of war enter or attempt to enter the United
States or any territory or possession thereof, through coastal or
boundary defenses, and are charged with committing or attempt-
ing or preparing to commit sabotage, espionage, hostile or war-
like acts, or violations of the law or war, shall be subject to the 
law of war and to the jurisdiction of military tribunals; and that
such persons shall not be privileged to seek any remedy or main-
tain any proceeding, directly or indirectly, or to have any such 
remedy or proceeding sought on their behalf, in the courts of
the United States, or of its States, territories, and possessions,
except under such regulations as the Attorney General, with the 
approval of the Secretary of War, may from time to time pre-
scribe.


Source:  Roosevelt, Franklin D.
The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Compiled
With Special Material and Explanatory Notes by Samuel I. Rosenman.
Vol. 11, 1942 Humanity on the Defensive.  New York:  Harper and Brothers Publishers.