Amending the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States

Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on September 3, 1938.

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Supersedes EO 3973, March 19, 1924; EO 4401, March 24, 1926; EO 4465, June 28, 1926; EO 4487, July 31, 1926; EO 4552, December 11, 1926; EO 5110, May 13, 1929; EO 5648, June 11, 1931; EO 5737, October 22, 1931; EO 5812, February 29, 1932; EO 5837, April 13, 1932; EO 5848, May 16, 1932; EO 5910, August 23, 1932; EO 6167, June 9, 1933; EO 6262, August 29, 1933; EO 6657-A, March 27, 1934; EO 6780, June 30, 1934; EO 6850, September 18, 1934; EO 6880, October 22, 1934; EO 7012, April 15, 1935; EO 7379, May 26, 1936

Amended by EO 8297, December 4, 1939; EO 9303, February 11, 1943; EO 9407, December 17, 1943; EO 9507, December 20, 1944; EO 9303, February 11, 1943; EO 9591, July 21, 1945; EO 9767, August 9, 1946; EO 10743, July 22, 1953; EO 10639, October 10, 1955

Superseded by Foreign Service Reg. S-6, November 6, 1945 (10 FR 13751)(in part); Foreign Service Reg. S-14, January 8, 1946 (11 FR 527)(in part)

Revoked by EO 9521, February 13, 1945 (in part); EO 10697, February 6, 1957

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