How did the Truman Proclamation of 1945 change the concept of territorial waters?

• continental shelf legal aspects
• events and knowledge
• Law of the sea

The Truman Proclamation, 1945 (Proclamation 2667—Policy of the United States With Respect to the Natural Resources of the Subsoil and Sea Bed of the Continental Shelf)

U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s executive order on September 28, 1945, proclaiming that the resources on the continental shelf contiguous…