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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 11, 31, 1945 WHEREAS Count Casimir Pulaski typifies the indomitable spirit which has sustained the Polish people through the perils of World War II and which has lent strength to the many thousands of devoted citizens of this country who look to Poland as an ancestral home; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved October 11, 1945 (Public Law 191, 79th Congress), the Congress has authorized and directed me "to issue a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all govern- mental buildings on October 11, 1945, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the death of General Casimir Pulaski": NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon officials of the Government to have the flag of the United States displayed on all governmental buildings on October 11, 1945; and I invite the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with commemorative ceremonies in honor of General Casimir Pulaski. 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 11th day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F BYRNES Secretary of State 887 Ante, p. 543. Observance of Oct. 11, 1946, in honor of Gen. Casimir Pulaski. WOMAN'S ENFRANCHISEMENT DAY BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS November 2, 1945, is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which women throughout the United States first cast their votes in a Presidential election; and WHEREAS Senate Joint Resolution 107 of the Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, approved October 31, 1945, requests the Presi- dent of the United States to issue a proclamation designating Novem- ber 2, 1945, as Woman's Enfranchisement Day; and WHEREAS the extension of the franchise to women constituted a notable advance in strengthening the democratic basis of our Govern- ment; and WHEREAS the movement for equality has gone steadily forward, culminating on October 24, 1945, in the coming into force, with respect to our country and twenty-eight other countries, of the United Nations Charter which reaffirms "faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women": NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate November 2, 1945, as Woman's Enfranchisement Day and call upon the people throughout the United States of America to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies. October 31, 1945 [No. 2671] Ante, p. 555. Designation of Nov. 2, 1945, as Woman's Enfranchisement Day. 59 STAT.]

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