Similarly, in granting the President power, in March, 1941 to authorize the transfer of American military equipment to the government of any country whose defense the President considered vital to the defense of the United States, Congress specified that no defense article not manufactured for such a foreign power might be disposed of except after consultation with the Chief of Staff of the Army or the Chief of Naval Operations of the Navy, or both.[670] The War Risk Insurance Act of 1950 permitted the Secretary of Commerce “with the approval of the President, and after such consultation with interested agencies of the Government as the President may require,” to “provide insurance and reinsurance against loss or damage” of American merchant vessels “by war risks.”[671] In 1950 security provisions were added to the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938. Among these was an authorization for the Secretary of Commerce to establish zones or areas in the airspace above the United States as he found necessary in the interests of national security. Having established such spaces, he might, “after consultation with the Department of Defense and the Civil Aeronautics Board ... prohibit or restrict flights of aircraft” within them.[672] These statutes simply open up the channels of communication and insist that they be used prior to the taking of action. They do not explicitly require the administrator to accept proffered advice, and whatever effect they have upon his freedom of discretion is subtle and impalpable. _May Act on Receipt of Advice or Request_: The 1937 statute extending the life of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation permitted the Board of Directors of the Corporation to report to the President that private credit was sufficiently available from private sources to meet legitimate demands of any class of eligible borrowers, whereupon the President might authorize the directors to suspend lending to that class.[673] Here, in effect, the Board of Directors of the RFC was given power to report (recommend) and thereby enable presidential action. The 1947 surplus property act authorized the disposal agency, upon the request of the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics, the Secretary of War, or the Secretary of the Navy to omit any of the terms, or conditions for the transfer of title to such property.[674] The agency granted a dispensing power which it was enabled to exercise upon receipt of a request from specified officials. The first of these two statutes enabled the President to act after the RFC had made what amounted to a finding. In this, it is similar to the Nationality Act of 1940, which provided that the President might, in his discretion, exempt certain aliens in the United States from the classification of alien enemy, provided the Department of Justice investigated and established the loyalty of the alien.[675] A Department of Justice finding of loyalty enables but does not compel the President to act.