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 P AATI May 3, 1944 PROCLAMATIONS-Tunei 6 19 4 4 58 STAT.] that flag, to our present great part in the world's affairs. What we are, and what we do, speak of these things far more eloquently than any words. Ours is a flag of battles. On the ships of our Navy, in the vanguard of our soldiers and marines, it is carrying liberation and succor into stricken lands. It is carrying our message of promise and freedom into all corners of the world. Ours is also a flag of peace. Under its protection, men have found refuge from oppression. Under its promise, men have found release from hatreds and prejudice, from exploitation and persecution. It is the flag under which men and women of varied heritage, creed, and race may work and live or, if need be, fight and die together as only free men and women can. Let us then display our flag proudly, knowing that it symbolizes the strong and constructive ideals-the democratic ideals-which we oppose to the evil of our enemies. Let us display our flag, and the flags of all the United Nations which fight beside us, to symbolize our joint brotherhood, our joint dedication, under God, to the cause of unity and the freedom of men. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby ask that on Flag Day, June 14, 1944, the people of our Nation honor especially the members of the armed forces-men and women equally-whose unfaltering devotion to our national ideals has given the Nation's flag a new and hopeful meaning for those struggling against oppression in lands still held by our enemies. I direct the officials of the Federal Government and I request the officials of the State and local governments to have our colors displayed on all public buildings on Flag Day, and I urge the people of the United States on that day to fly the American flag from their homes, and to arrange, where feasible, for joint displays of the emblems of the freedom-loving United Nations without whose staunch collab- oration we could not have hoped for victory. 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 3 r day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State NATIONAL FARM-SAFETY WEEK, 1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it behooves this Nation gratefully to acknowledge its special dependence upon the skill and labor of its farmers in the gigantic task of waging war; and WHEREAS the loss of life and limb by accident among our farm- ing population has already reached an appalling figure, and the risks have lately been increased by longer hours of work and consequent fatigue; and Observance of June 14, 1944 as Flag Day. June 16, 1944 [No. 2615]

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