Congress is more than likely to delegate to the President power to determine an emergency’s existence, sometimes providing him with connotative definitions--such as “by reason of flood, earthquake, or drought”--for guidance. It is particularly inclined to permit the President to declare the termination of an emergency, frequently hinging the life of an emergency statute to such a Presidential declaration or to the continuance of emergency previously proclaimed by the President. But there is a growing tendency for the Congress to grant contingent powers which may be exercised in the event of a declaration of emergency either by Congress or the President, and sometimes by Congress alone. We discuss elsewhere the growing trend toward reservation to the Congress of power to terminate an emergency through adoption of a concurrent resolution (which does not require the President’s signature). The Emergency Detention Act provision for declaration of an Internal Security Emergency, mentioned above, hinges the presidential declaration, among other things, to a prior Congressional declaration of war. Thus when Congress has declared a war emergency to exist, the President, at his discretion may declare the existence of an Internal Security Emergency caused by the prospect of internal subversion. Congress, perhaps, forecast the future trend of legislative-executive relations in this field and in the adaptation of emergency action when in the First Decontrol Act of 1947 it declared “in each ... limited instance [that it is necessary to continue emergency controls in effect] the authority for such emergency controls and war powers should not be exercised by the grant of broad, general war powers but should be granted by restrictive, specific legislation.”[126] CONCLUSION It may be seen that a varied assortment of situations threatening the economic interests of groups, the life and limb of the populace, or the physical integrity of the nation itself, have been defined as emergencies in the United States. The spread lies between a liquid sugar or codfish emergency and an emergency caused by the global military and ideological activities of the communist movement. The citizen of the democratic state, having weathered depression, natural disaster, agricultural, defense and war emergencies, and recognizing that by popular consensus he lives in a time of cold war emergency which may turn into a war emergency, or if lessened, may create an emergency by virtue of the threat to continued prosperity resulting from curbed defense orders, is entitled to be apprehensive.