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 PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 21, 28, 1945 Ante, p. 530. Observance of Oc- tober 7-13, 1945, as National Employ the Physically Handi- capped Week. WHEREAS Public Resolution No. 176, 79th Congress, approved August 11, 1945, provides in part: "That hereafter the first week in October of each year shall be designated as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. During said week, appropriate ceremonies are to be held throughout the Nation, the purpose of which will be to enlist public support for and interest in the employment of otherwise qualified but physically handicapped workers": NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week of October 7-13, 1945 as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. I ask the governors of States, mayors of cities, heads of the various agencies of the Govern- ment, and other public officials, as well as leaders in industry, educa- tion, religion, and every other aspect of our common life, during this week and at all other suitable times, to exercise every appropriate effort to enlist public support of a sustained program for the employ- ment and development of the abilities and capacities of those who are physically handicapped. 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-five and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State. COLUMBUS DAY, 1945 September 28, 1945 [No. 2666] 48 Stat. 657. 36 U.S. C. 146. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Christopher Columbus with courage and daring sailed an uncharted sea and found a new world which became the haven of millions who sought freedom from oppression and want; and WHEREAS we, the spiritual and material heirs of Columbus, have through valiant effort and heroic sacrifice preserved our country from those who would have enslaved us and have given strength to all people who have struggled against tyranny; and WHEREAS we, with the resolute faith of the discoverer of America, have determined that through international organization the freedoms for which this Nation and other nations have waged victorious war shall flourish in peace and security; and WHEREAS, at this period, the Italian people with fortitude and courage are striving to rid their country of the last vestige of fascism, to establish liberty, and to regain an honorable place in the family of nations, it is peculiarly appropriate that we honor the courage and vision of a great Italian, whose discovery gave a birthplace for democ- racy; and WHEREAS Public Resolution 21, Seventy-third Congress, ap- proved April 30, 1934, provides: 882 [59 STAT.

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