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 2760 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 9, 12 , 194U Lo4 ;TAT. THANKSGIVING DAY-1940 November, 1940 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2441] A PROCLAMATION Thanksgiving Day. I FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States Thursday, Nov. 21, of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-first day of 940, as. November 1940, to be observed nationally as a day of thanksgiving. In a year which has seen calamity and sorrow fall upon many peoples elsewhere in the world may we give thanks for our preservation. On the same day, in the same hour, let us pray: Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in Thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail; Amen. IN WITNESS 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 9" day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. REGISTRATION DAY-ALASKA November 12, 190 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES [No. 2442] A PROCLAMATION Preamble. WHEREAS the Congress has enacted and I have on the sixteenth Ante, p. 88. day of September, 1940, approved the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which declares that it is imperative to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United States and that in a free society the obligations and privileges of military training and service should be shared generally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service; WHEREAS the said Act contains, in part, the following pro- visions: "SEC. 2 . Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every male alien residing in the United States, who, on the day or ___ _ _^ _^I^ r 1A

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