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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 16, 28, 1945 869 formity with Public No. 373-78th Congress, approved June 28, 1944, not to exceed six dollars ($6.00) per diem in lieu of subsistence while so employed. All expenditures of the Board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Mediation Board, 1945" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created. 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 1 6 th day of May M the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State. FLAG DAY, 1945 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION It is our custom each year to set aside a day on which to render special honor to our Flag. We celebrate Flag Day this year with a fresh sense of our strength as a nation. Solemnly, we accept the responsibilities placed upon us by our power. We honor the men and women in the armed services and in the factories and homes who, with God's help, have given us our victories. We face the battle ahead with solemn gratitude for the triumphs of the past. Our Flag has accompanied our fighting men on a hundred battle- fields. It fies beyond the seas over the friendly lands our arms have freed, and over the hostile countries our arms have conquered. Our Flag will be planted in the heart of the empire of our last remaining enemy. As we press forward to final victory, we are strengthened with the knowledge that for millions of people in other lands as well as in our own our lag is a living token of human integrity and freedom. Let us observe this Flag Day by raising our Flag and beside it the flags of the United Nations. It is especially fitting that we thus honor our Allies at a time when we are working with them to lay a firm foundation for world peace. Let this display of the flags of the United Nations symbolize our unity with our Allies both upon the battlefields of war and under the skies of peace. Let us again dedicate ourselves and our Republic, under God, to the united cause of peace and justice and the brotherhood of all men everywhere. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate June 14, 1945, as Flag Day, and ask that the people of our nation on that day do especially honor our Flag, and the men and women of the armed services who have served under it, and that they also pay honor to our Allies of the United Nations. I direct the officials of the Federal Government and I request the officials of the State and local governments to display the Flag of our Republic 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 58 Stat. 547. Appropriation avail- able. 58 Stat. 568. May 28, 1945 [No. 2654] Designation of June 14, 1945, as Flag Day. 59 STAT.]

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