1952 - Truman's Executive Order 10399

Listened to David Martin’s May 25, 2022 interview by Seth Holehouse on Rumble today.

One of Martin’s key points was that the formal handover of US sovereignty to the World Health Organization dates back to Executive Order 10399, signed by President Harry Truman on Sept. 27, 1952 and published in the Federal Register on Sept. 30, 1952 (17 Federal Register 8648).

For implementation, it was followed by Reorganization Plan No. 1, which President Dwight Eisenhower transmitted to Congress March 12, 1953, and published in the Federal Register April 11, 1953 (18 Federal Register 2053).

From Executive Order 10399:

WHEREAS, under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution of the World Health Organization, adopted in New York on July 22, 1946, accepted June 14, 1948, on behalf of the United States of America by the President acting pursuant to the authority granted by the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of America approved June 14, 1948 (Public Law 643, 80th Congress, 22 U.S.C. 290), the Government of the United States of America, together with the governments of other countries which have accepted the said Constitution, undertakes to give effect to regulations of the World Health Assembly concerning sanitary and quarantine requirements and other procedures designed to prevent the international spread of disease, as to which the said governments have not entered an unacceptable reservation or a rejection; and

WHEREAS the World Health Assembly on May 25, 1951, adopted International Sanitary Regulations (World Health Organization Regulations No. 2) concerning sanitary and quarantine measures which may be imposed on international traffic to prevent the international spread of smallpox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus, and relapsing fever, as well as concerning reports and notifications of outbreaks of such diseases; and

WHEREAS the said International Sanitary Regulations have been accepted by the Government of the United States of America without reservation and come into force on October 1, 1952, with respect to the said Government and the governments of certain other countries; and

WHEREAS, in order that the Government of the United States of America may give full and complete effect to the said regulations and assist in the prevention of the international spread of disease, it is necessary that an agency of the executive branch of the said Government be designated to exercise functions and perform duties under the said regulations; and

WHEREAS authority and responsibility for the prevention of the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States and possessions of the United States of America already is vested in the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency, pursuant to the Public Health Service Act (Public Law 410, 78th Congress; 42 U.S.C. 201, et seq.):

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America, I hereby designate the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service in the Federal Security Agency as the “health administration” of the United States of America for the purpose of performing the duties prescribed and undertaken in the said International Sanitary Regulations.

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Following Attorney Todd Callender’s leads, I had tracked the sovereignty loss back as far as the 2005 amendments to the World Health Organization International Health Regulations, with an awareness (from other events I found clustered in the mid-1940s) that the roots went deeper. For that matter, they go farther back than the 1940s; digging continues.

The 2005 IHR amendments were the near-in-time drivers to the statutory and regulatory changes in US law, which went into a higher gear starting in 1997 with the Emergency Use Authorization section of the 1938 Federal Food Drug and Cosmetics Act.

Broadening the lens back to World War II and just after, and fitting in more of the puzzle pieces, here’s a quick transcription of some relevant events from my index card files:

• 1938 Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act - 21 USC 9 et seq. Original law passed “to prohibit the movement in interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, and for other purposes.” As of 1997, statutory home of the American government’s chemical and biological weapons program.

• 1944 Public Health Service Act - 42 USC 201 et seq. Consolidated, centralized and militarized the American public health system that had developed within several agencies since the Revolution.

• 1944 - Bretton Woods Agreement established World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

• 1945/10/24 - United Nations established, treaty ratified by US Congress.

• 1945/11/20 - Nuremberg trials began.

• 1946/06/11 - Congress passed Administrative Procedures Act, 5 USC 551. [I haven’t dug into this deeply yet, but my initial understanding is that this set up the framework for the administrative state to operate within a de facto executive branch dictatorship, through the “committed to agency discretion” override of both the legislative process and judicial review.]

• 1946/07/22 - World Health Organization Constitution adopted and signed by 61 nations at International Health Conference in New York, to enter into force on 04/07/1948. [WHO Constitution amendments passed by World Health Assembly 02/03/1977; 01/20/1980; 07/11/1994; 09/15/2005.]

• 1946/10/01 - Nuremberg trials concluded.

• 1947 National Security Act - 61 Stat. 499. Set up precursors to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

• 1947/10/30 - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) treaty signed. Went into effect 01/01/1948.

• 1948 US Information and Educational Exchange Act (Smith-Mundt). PL 80-402. 62 Stat. 6. Set up programs for US propaganda distribution in foreign countries; limited use of government propaganda on American population. ‘Modernized’ to authorize domestic propaganda in 01/02/2013 National Defense Authorization Act.

• 1948/06/14 - World Health Organization Constitution accepted by resolution of US Congress. PL 643, 22 USC 290, 64 Stat. 441.

• 1948 - UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted, as part of International Bill on Human Rights.

• 1949/06/18 - George Orwell published 1984.

• 1949/04/04 - US Senate ratified North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty. Treaty in effect as of 08/24/1949

• 1951/05/25 - World Health Organization World Health Assembly adopted first International Sanitary Regulations. Effective date: 10/01/1952. Revised and renamed International Health Regulations in 1969. Revised again 1973, 1981, 2005.

• 1952/09/14 - Pope Pius XII speech On the Moral Limits of Medical Research and Treatment, given to First International Congress on Histopathology of the Nervous System. “Insofar as the moral justification of the experiments rests on the mandate of public authority, and therefore on the subordination of the individual to the community, of the individual’s welfare to the common welfare, it is based on an erroneous explanation of this principle. It must be noted that, in his personal being, man is not finally ordered to usefulness to society. On the contrary, the community exists for man.”

• 1952/09/27 - Executive Order 10399 signed by President Harry Truman, establishing the US Surgeon General as the “health administrator” for the World Health Organization on American soil, under 1948 WHO Constitution and 1951 WHO International Sanitary Regulations.

• 1952/10/01 - WHO International Sanitary Regulations enter into force in WHO member states.

• 1953/03/12 - Reorganization Plan No. 1 transmitted to Congress by President Eisenhower, putting US sovereignty relinquishment through WHO International Sanitary Regulations, as operated by Surgeon General through the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (later renamed Health and Human Services) into US Code at 42 USC 202. Published in Federal Register 04/11/1953, 18 Federal Register 2053.

• 1961/01/17 President Eisenhower Farewell Address, warning of military-industrial-Congressional complex and the “danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”

• 1966/04/25 - US Surgeon General’s authorities transferred to Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare department, effective 06/25/1966. 31 Federal Register 8855.

• 1969 - WHO International Sanitary Regulations, in effect since 10/01/1952, revised and renamed International Health Regulations. Revised again 1973, 1981, 2005. Amendments proposed by US government in January 2022 were reviewed during chaotic May 2022 World Health Assembly meetings. See Stand for Health reporting and James Roguski reporting.

• 1979/10/17 - Health, Education and Welfare Department renamed Health and Human Services Department. PL 96-88, 93 Stat. 695. From that point to the present, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has held authority under the WHO Constitution and WHO International Health Regulations, to implement WHO programs on American soil, as transferred from Surgeon General to HEW Secretary in 1966.

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St. Ursula.