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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 6, 8, 1947 COLUMBUS DAY, 1947 October 6, 1947 [No. 2749] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 36U. .0.O 146. Designation of Oct. 12,1947, as Columbus Day. A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, in this era of challenging scientific discoveries, new lanes of thinking are needed to reach understanding of undreamed- of forces, to solve new problems of world community living, and to bring to bear upon human relationships in new and more effective ways the positive potentialities of our progress; and WHEREAS inspiration in the quest for these new goals may be taken from the life and achievement of Christopher Columbus, who sought and who succeeded in finding new lanes across the ocean, new vistas for navigation, and new ways of understanding our planet; and WHEREAS, in recognition of the vision and superb accomplishment of that admiral, who dared and strove and opened a new world, the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved April 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 657), has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation designating October 12 of each year, the anniversary of the sighting of land by Columbus's intrepid crew, as Columbus Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by this proclamation designate Sunday, October 12, 1947, as Columbus Day, and I invite the people of the United States to observe the day in their homes or churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies. I call upon officials of the Government to have the flag of the United States displayed on public buildings on Sunday, October 12, 1947, and I urge the school authorities and civic leaders of the Nation to organize Columbus Day exercises appropriate to commemorate that day. 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 6t h day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven, and [SEAL of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and seventy-second. By the President: ROBERT A LOVETT Acting Secretary of State. HARRY S TRUMAN GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY, 1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a noble deed remembered and cherished generation after generation by a whole people merits the reward of official public notice; and WHEREAS the people of our Nation recall vividly and with thanks, among the selfless deeds of those who won our independence, the supreme contribution made by Count Casimir Pulaski, a fearless Polish patriot who gallantly fought for American liberty; and WHEREAS October 11 is the anniversary of the day in 1779 when Count Pulaski, who held the rank of Brigadier General, laid down his life in that momentous cause, having two days earlier been wounded in a cavalry charge near Savannah, Georgia: October 8, 1947 [No. 27501 1092 [61 STAT.

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