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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 7, 11, 1942 ARMISTICE DAY, 1942 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The calm which settled over the Western Front at 11 a. m. on November 11, 1918, closed one phase of a world-wide struggle against lawless aggression and for the basic freedoms of mankind; and The United States, in company with the United Nations, must once more champion the essential freedoms-freedom of speech, free- dom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear-on a world-wide battlefield; and Faith can be kept with those who died in the first World War only by resolutely prosecuting to final victory the great war in which we are now engaged, and by crowning that victory with a peace which shall safeguard and extend these essential freedoms. WHEREAS Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, passed June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation for the observance of Armistice Day, November 11: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to rededicate this Nation, on November 11, 1942, to the great task of winning this war and building a just peace in order that we and our children may live in a world made free to work toward human advancement; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. 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 seventh day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-two, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. DAYS OF PRAYER: THANKSGIVING DAY AND NEW YEAR'S DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord." Across the uncertain ways of space and time our hearts echo those words, for the days are with us again when, at the gathering of the harvest, we solemnly express our dependence upon Almighty God. The final months of this year, now almost spent, find our Republic and the nations joined with it waging a battle on many fronts for the preservation of liberty. In giving thanks for the greatest harvest in the history of our nation, we who plant and reap can well resolve that in the year to come we will do all in our power to pass that milestone; for by our labors in the fields we can share some part of the sacrifice with our brothers and sons who wear the uniform of the United States. November 7, 1942 [No. 2570] Observance of Nov. 11, 1942 as Armistice Day. November 11, 194 [No. 26711 1981 56 STAT.]

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