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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 29, 30, 1943 Accordingly, pursuant to the aforesaid section 22, I hereby proclaim that the provisions of my said proclamation of May 28, 1941, are suspended, effective immediately, insofar as they apply to wheat and wheat flour purchased by the War Food Administrator or any agency or person designated by him. 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 29t h day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-threeand of [SEAL] 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. Suspension of cer- tain provisions of prior proclamation. MOTHER'S DAY, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS millions of American mothers, and particularly the mothers of men in service and the younger mothers whose husbands are overseas, are bearing so nobly the sorrow of separation and the hardships of wartime dislocations; and WHEREAS the mothers of our country are patriotically cooper- ating, with ration books and victory gardens and war bonds, to ensure the success of the civilian phases of our all-out, war effort, and are responding loyally to the call for participation in war production and civilian defense activities; and WHEREAS, in the words of Public Resolution 25, 63d Congress, approved by President Wilson on May 8, 1914, "the service rendered the United States by the American mother is the greatest source of the country's strength and inspiration"; and WHEREAS the second Sunday in May is designated as Mother's Day by the said joint resolution, which also provides that it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to request the observ- ance of that day; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United Stateof f America, do hereby direct the officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Govern- ment buildings on Mother's Day, May 9, 1943, and I call upon the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on that day as a public expression of our love and esteem for the mothers of our country, and I urge all to make the day the occasion for renewed private expressions of love for our mothers. 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 30 t day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and [SEAL] 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 April 30, 194 [No. 2585] 38 Stat. 770. 36U.B.C.1i141, 142. Observance of Mother's Day, May 9, 1943. 57 STAT.] 739

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