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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 21, 1944 COLUMBUS DAY, 1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and the long line of explorers who followed him have served to bring the continents and peoples of the world into an ever-narrowing circle of geographic relationship; and WHEREAS we, the heirs to the discoveries of Columbus, have now come to realize that civilized peoples can live safely and develop fully in such an interrelated world only through association for peace and the common good; and WHEREAS we, in our great task of achieving world peace by victory and of maintaining that peace by association with others, should take thought on the superb faith and resolution of the discoverer of America; and WHEREAS Public Resolution 21, Seventy-third Congress, ap- proved April 30, 1934, provides: "That the President of the United States is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating October 12 of each year as Columbus Day and calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on said date and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies expressive of the public sentiment befitting the anniversary of the discovery of America"; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, October 12, 1944, as Columbus Day; I direct that on that day the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings; and I invite the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies in schools and churches or other suitable places. 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 21st day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS it is especially fitting at this time, when the vandals of the western world have been pushed back to their own frontiers, September 21, 1944 [No. 2623] 48 Stat. 667. 36U.S.. 146. Designation of Oct. 12, 1944 as Columbus Day. September 21, 1944 [No. 2624 58 STAT.]

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