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 Jan P30, 1943 PROCLAMATIONS- Feb.23 ,1943 Feb. 23, 1943 Reciprocal privi- leges granted to United Kingdom. 56 Stat. 746. 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app. §§ 821-828. February 23, 1943 [No. 2576] Designation- of March 1943 as Red Cross Month. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said act of August 18, 1942, do proclaim that the Government of the United Kingdom shall be accorded like privileges with respect to prizes captured under author- ity of the said Government and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of the said Government. 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 h day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three and 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. RED CROSS WAR FUND CAMPAIGN, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American National Red Cross during the first year of our participation in the war has rendered vital humanitarian services to the members of our armed forces and to their families; WHEREAS the demands made upon the Red Cross are steadily increasing from day to day as it is called upon to accompany our Army and Navy into world-wide theaters of action, to provide blood plasma for our wounded, to send relief to American and United Nations prisoners of war, and to expand its preparations to meet emergencies at home; and WHEREAS the American National Red Cross is under the neces- sity of raising further funds in order that these essential services may be continued and expanded; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America and President of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate the month beginning March 1, 1943, as "Red Cross Month", and I request that during that month our people rededicate themselves to the splendid aims and activities of the Red Cross. I summon the men, women, and young people of our country, in every city and town and village, in every county and State throughout the land, to enlist in the army of mercy mobilized under the banner of the Red Cross and to contribute generously to the Red Cross War Fund in order that the sum of one hundred twenty- five million dollars, every cent of which is needed, may be raised promptly. 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 23 rd day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 730 [57 STAT.

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