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 PROCLAMATIONS-OCT. 28, 30, 1946 ARMISTICE DAY, 1946 ctober, 1946 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 27101 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Armistice of November 11, 1918, silenced the guns of World War I and brought to humanity hope and promise that the wars of nation against nation were at an end; and WHEREAS, although that hope and promise were shattered by the Axis aggressors in World War II, the American people are neverthe- less resolved to keep faith with the heroes of both wars who sacrificed so valorously for the ideal of lasting peace; and WHEREAS the anniversary of the Armistice of 1918 provides a challenge to rededicate ourselves to the attainment of that ideal; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a concurrent resolution of June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), requested the President to issue a proclamation calling upon officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies; and by an act of May 5 U.S.. 1.87a 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351), provided that the eleventh day of November in each year should be celebrated and known as Armistice Day and should be a legal holiday: Obrvance of Nov. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the 11, 1946, as Armistice Day. United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe November 11, 1946, as Armistice Day by honoring their fellow countrymen who fought across the seas, and by renewing their determination and their efforts to establish a lasting peace; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Govern- ment buildings on 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 28 th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of [sEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President JAMES F. BYRNES Secretary of State DEDICATION DAY, 1946 October 0,1946 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 27111 A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS November 19, 1946, marks the eighty-third anniver- sary of the delivery by Abraham Lincoln of the immortal Gettysburg Address; and WHEREAS those classic lines are enshrined forever in the hearts of all Americans; and WHEREAS President Lincoln's closing resolve "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth" has a special and solemn connotation in world affairs at the present moment; and 1046 [61 STAT.

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