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 PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States. DONE at the City of Washington this 12 t h day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PACIFIC MERCADO (INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION) AND WORLD'S FAIR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION October 19, 1937 [No. 2257] WHEREAS Public Resolution 73, 75th Congress, approved August Pacific Mercado 26, 1937, recites that "there is to be held in the City of Los Angeles, sition), Los Angeles, State of California, commencing in the year 1940, a continuing inter- Calif.b national exposition to be known as the Pacific Mercado, designed to 50 stat. 834. promote closer relations and better understandings among the countries and nations of the world, through the furtherance of trade, industry, and cultural arts, by gathering, arranging, and exhibiting the varied cultures of such countries and nations and the origins, progress, and accomplishments in science, the arts, education, indus- try, business, and transportation of such countries and nations, and by other appropriate means"; and that "there is to be held in said city in the year 1942, in connection with the said Pacific Mercado, a world's fair commemorating the landing of Cabrillo"; WHEREAS the said Resolution reads in part as follows: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives oj the United States of America in Congress assembled * * * That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, author- ized and respectfully requested by proclamation, or in such manner as he may deem proper, to invite foreign countries to such proposed Pacific Mercado (International Exposition) and to such proposed world's fair to be held in connection therewith, with a request that they participate therein"; AND WHEREAS I believe the people of many nations would be pleased to unite with the people of the United States in participating in this exposition and in the world's fair to be held in connection therewith: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- Foreign nationstn. dent of the United States of America, in compliance with the aforesaid pi. Resolution, do invite the participation of foreign countries in this exposition and in the world's fair to be held in connection therewith. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 19 h" day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, and [sEL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-second. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. 399

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