Executive Order No. 2774-A

[Division created under Public Information Committee.]

THE WHITE HOUSE, December 17, 1917.

  I hereby create, under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Public
Information, heretofore established by Executive Order of April 14th,
1917, a Division of Foreign Picture Service for the purpose of stimu-
lating interest in the war and furnishing entertainment and instruction
by means of motion pictures to American Soldiers at home and abroad,
also to lend similar aid to the armies and citizens of our allies through
the medium of the Young Men's Christian Association and other agen-
cies of like character.

WOODROW WILSON.