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panded program of research, control, education, and service activities on the part of both public and private agencies; and WHEREAS, in spite of these efforts and the great advances made in our knowledge of cancer, this disease continues to be the second highest cause of death in the United States, taking more than 200,000 lives each year; and WHEREAS the focusing of public attention in a special way upon the problem of controlling cancer will serve to give renewed life and vigor to the efforts directed toward solving it; and WHEREAS, by Public Resolution 82, 75th Congress, approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), the President is authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1952 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations. I also urge the medical profession, the press, the radio, television, and motion-picture industries, and all interested agencies and individuals to unite during April 1952 in public dedication to a program for the control of cancer. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 22nd day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President:

36 USC 150.

Cancer Control Month, 1952.

D E A N ACHESON

Secretary of State

P A N AMERICAN DAY,

1952

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

March 29, 1952 [No. 2968]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS April 14, 1952, will mark the sixty-second anniversary of the founding of the Pan American Union, keystone of the Organization of American States, of which it is the Permanent Organ and General Secretariat; and WHEREAS April 14 is customarily observed throughout the Americas as "Pan American D a y "; and WHEREAS the Charter of the Organization of American States came into full legal effect on December 13, 1951, furnishing a treaty basis for the Organization; and WHEREAS the determination of the republics of this Hemisphere to achieve a greater solidarity and a more perfect expression of their mutual efforts to withstand aggression, to preserve peace, and to promote their economic, social, and cultural development has thus been solemnized in a lasting pact: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 14, 1952, as Pan American Day, and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on that day.

Pan American Day, 1952.

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